Creation - the art of Noémi Ferenczy
Exhibition Design
Born into a dynasty of artists, Noémi Ferenczy (1890–1957) was a Kossuth Prize laureate rejuvenator of 20th-century tapestry, an artist whose style inaugurated an epoch. She created an oeuvre that is outstanding by both Hungarian and international standards, and several of her works can be found in foreign collections. In addition to those she taught at the College of Applied Arts, later generations of artists also consider her their inspiration and guide, and the annual award that acknowledges the best applied artists is named after her.
Her father was Károly Ferenczy, a leading figure of the Nagybánya artist colony, her mother Olga Fialka, a highly educated polyglot who started out as a painter. Unlike his older brother, painter Valér Ferenczy, who was five years her senior, and her twin brother, the eminently gifted sculptor, Béni Ferenczy, she took an interest in art relatively late. At the age of 23, however, she was already at work on an early masterpiece, Creation. She chose to remain responsible for the creative process from the beginning to the end, from the numerous pencil drawings, colour sketches and cartoons, to the weaving itself. Throughout her life she remained faithful to the values represented by all artists in the family, considered work with respect, humility and commitment.
Noémi's works are dominated by the the blue color so characteristic of her, which is why it became the color of her image. The soft lines and curves inspired the structure of the typographic elements. The combining of the typographies and their arrangement reflects the weaving technique, which characterizes works moving within a closed frame.
Curator: Emőke Bodonyi
Design and graphic elements: Agnes Herr
Design and graphic elements: Agnes Herr
Photos: Balázs Deim © Ferenczy Museum Center
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