By textile artist and Full Member of the Hungarian Academy of Arts Erzsébet Katona Szabó

“Irrespective of how much we get entagled in the mazes of colours, shapes and smells that surround us, gardens are no longer seen as wilderness even if these gardens happen to be the most wild-growing and exuberant English gardens. Our perspective is quite the contrary: gardens are now interpreted as the borderline and union not only of nature and man, but also of wilderness and the settlements in it. Today’s gardens unify the harmony and tension generated along these boundaries.”

Gyula Kodolányi

Poet and literary historian 

Melinda Varga: Frame

At this display of contemporary fine art and applied art, based in Pesti Vigadó’s exhibition hall, showcasing artists present the gardens of their own “creation” by means afforded by painting, sculpture, graphic arts, carpet art, as well as ceramic, textile and glass arts.

“Work by guest artist”: Aladár Körösfői-Kriesch’s garden from the 1930s

Organiser: Erzsébet Katona Szabó