The exhibition explores the theme of Hungarian fairy tales that commonly began as 'Once upon a time, beyond the glass mountain' through the works of five Hungarian graduates from the prestigious Central Saint Martins. It is an opportunity for the designers to showcase their own innovative works, as well as collaborative work that has specifically been produced for this occasion. Each designer has interpreted the theme in their own subject specialism : printed and woven textiles, product and theatre design. Here the woven textiles appear like broken glass, the printed wallpaper becomes a tale in itself as you move the characters around, the headphones look like they have just been snatched out of a frozen fairy tale kingdom and photos of modern day fairies....
Rita Parniczky – Textile Designer
Rita Parniczky`s X-Ray Fabric Collection is hand-woven with a unique technique which is an answer to the question: what if we x-rayed fabrics? The woven pieces are partly transparent allowing light to travel through which result in organic projections. In addition to this the materiality of the yarns is transformed into a fragile state, for instance glass or ice. The inspiration comes from x-ray films and from a vast collection of photographs and photograms which make the illusion of x-ray films.
Emese Mandzak – Product Design
After completing a BA (Hons) Product Design course at CSM, Emese is now looking for new challenges! Emese regards design as a very complex and very exciting process that not only ends in a product, but also tells the story behind it.
“I was looking at various ways of how everyday gadgets can become part of the clothing, how they can act as jewellery pieces and I was also trying to explore new ways of people interacting with these objects. As a result of this process, I have designed a series of headphones.“
Xiang Zeng, BA Textile Design – Pathway: Print
Xiang was born in China and moved to Hungary when she was 7. She studied textile print at Central Saint Martins. Her work is concerned with visual narratives that are inspired by old fairy tale stories. In 2008 she was awarded the William Atkinson scholarship for her designs on Little Red Riding Hood.
Beata Merkovits, BA Theatre Design for Performance (costume and set design)
Beata has also got a degree from KREA Art and Environment Culture Institute in Budapest where she studied fashion styling for three years and fashion design for one year. She has a longstanding interest in theatre, film, fashion and fine art. As her practice combines costume making, fine art and fashion.
Arthur Phillips will be in discussion with Tibor Fischer and George Szirtes.
Turning Point – Talking Point is a series of discussions between diplomats, artists and journalists organised by the Hungarian Cultural Centre. The discussions will reveal how distinguished Britons lived through the times of political transition in Hungary and how they think of those turbulent times. The Hungarian Cultural Centre aims to show the effect of transition from a historical and cultural point of view, to introduce the notion of peaceful transitions in Hungary, and to commemorate the events of this exceptional year.
Arthur Phillips is the best-selling and award-winning author of Prague, The Egyptologist, and Angelica.
Tibor Fischer was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for his first novel, Under the Frog, which also won a Betty Trask Award, and he was nominated as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists. Subsequent works include The Thought Gang, The Collector Collector, Don’t Read this Book if You’re Stupid and Voyage to the End of the Room.
George Szirtes is one of Britain’s leading poets and translators, with a string of prizes including the T S Eliot Prize, the Cholmondley Prize and the Faber Memorial Prize. After Conversations in Bolzano and The Rebels, Esther’s Inheritance is the third Márai novel George Szirtes has translated from Hungarian.
Convenors: Daniel Abondolo, Eszter Tarsoly in collaboration with the Hungarian Cultural Centre
During this three-day workshop, translators, writers, scholars, and journalists discuss Hungarian into English and English into Hungarian translation in two panels: one on prose and one on verse. The two central themes of the workshops are fidelity to the original v. substitution in translation and the cultural implications of the translators’ choice. Invited speakers and discussants include translators of Hungarian and English literature: George Gömöri, Ádám Nádasdy, Tim Wilkinson, and Peter Zollman, as well as writer Mátyás Sárközi, journalist Vali Tóth, and young writers and translators Ágnes Lehoczky and Malcolm Lesley.
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» Christmas Concert by the Quartet of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment:
Thursday, 10 December 2009
Embassy of the Republic of Hungary
Performers:
Alison Bury – violin
Kinga Gáborjáni – cello
Annette Isserlis – viola
Andrew Roberts – violin
Programme
Mozart: Quartet in C KV157
Haydn: Duo for violin and cello in D Hob. VI:D1
Haydn: String Trio in G Hob. V:20
Haydn: Quartet in C Op.33 No.3 'The Bird'
