The next guest of our series Taking New Paths to Follow Munkácsy - Munkácsy Priye Awarded Artistset is the textile artist Katalin Sárváry.

She was born in Rábapata in 1945. She attended the Polytechnic Collage of Light Industry, later on she went to the Hungarian Academy of Applied Arts from where she graduated in 1969. In 1970 she was hired by the Fashion design Institute of Hungary as a fashion designer. She also worked as a costume designer for the Rent a Costume Company. She began teaching in 1981.

In 1986 she was appointed to manage the Textile Section for the Association of Hungarian Visual- and Applied Artists. She also often juried and took part in the Application for Young Fashion Designers in Paris. She began teaching dress design at the Academy of Applied Arts in 1987. She designed costumes for films, TV show, theatre and folk dance, too. She prefers constructive-geometric elements when designing cloths. She likes triangles, diagonals stripy or chequered surfaces. She mixes folk clothing from the Balkán with Bauhaus.

She received the Munkácsy Prize acknowledging her national and international success. She has shown in Budapest, Sárvár, Kaposvár, Pécs, Dijon, Helsinki, London, Lyon, Szentendre, Bécs, Székesfehérvár, and Szombathely. In addition, she also writes for professional papers.

The chamber exhibition at the Small Room of the Munkácsy Memorial House presents her textile pictures, black and white chequered patterned cloths etc. The exhibition is open from 20 January to 25 February 2012.