Janus Pannonius Museum is presenting the oeuvre exhibition of the ceramic artist Judit Nádor of Pécs, which provides insight into her art e based on ceramics, sketches, studies from her private collection.

Judit Nádor's name is familiar for collectors who are interested in artistic aspirations after the nationalization of the Zsolnay Factory. Distinctive interior design, design style of the 1960s and 70s, present day designers are her source of inspiration, subject of scientific processing and exhibitions, not least as "retro" artist, she enjoys extraordinary popularity among the audience.

In Hungary, we have little concrete knowledge about the artist's generation, which established modernism in the decades after nationalization, lacking economic conditions in the field of industrial design. In the Zsolnay Factory in addition to János Fekete, György Fürtös, Antal Gazder, János Török Judit Nádor played crucial role in originating modern image.

After 1956 young artists primarily responsible was to reform decorative porcelain pieces and souvenirs. Nádor joined that work in 1962 following completion of the College of Applied Arts. At collage, her tutors were Miklós Borsos and Árpád Csekovszky, so she received thorough sculptural training. Initially, she mainly designed porcelain vases, small gifts. From the late '60s, however - during the development of the production of red granite - her interest primarily turned to a coarser, tectonic material. Her artistic experiments emphasized the architectural features of ceramic with particular attention to the variations of spatial relationships.

In her artistic development, her participation Ceramics Symposium of Silkós founded in 1969 played a significant role. She showed at a number of group exhibitions, one of these was the Faenza Ceramic Biennale in 1968, she was a regular participant in the events of the Pécs National Ceramics Biennial, her solo exhibition was held in 1965 in Pécs.

As a factory designer and autonomous artist she was mainly concerned with natural motifs, animal figures stylization. Her fish, cat, bird, frog figures are still popular today, you can find them in many porcelain and eosin souvenirs, wall pictures, garden sculptures.

Despite her frail figure, she was drawn to monumental, pure forms, however, playfulness of pierced shapes, witty spatial relations are typical of her works.

In 1979, her art career broke due to illness, but her entire oeuvre presents an enduring value of our contemporary ceramic art.