The collection featuring items from the first Ceramics Symposium was shown at the Siklós Castle in January 1970.

The exhibition in the Siklós Castle last year and the one at the Museum Art Gallery this year is to commemorate ceramics symposiums in Siklós that was first launched in 1969, presenting works of art from the symposium, among them those now featured in the exhibition of the Janus Pannonius Museum in Pécs.

The s symposiums in Siklós/Villány also gives importance to the creative camps launched in – Austria / St. Margareth (1959), Gmunden (1963), Czechoslovakia / Bechyne (1966). Nearly half a hundred ceramic sculptures, reliefs, wall plates, vases shows a variety of creative activity that, despite the harsh, extremely tight technical conditions - was realized by the enthusiastic young artists at the beginning of their careers.

Most of the participants of the first symposium were young people in their twenties who were far from the eyes of the jury, the limits of factory design. They created their art of almost nothing, spontaneously joining some of the most progressive international art trends (Ilona Benkő, Sándor Horváth, Győző Lőrincz, Imre Schrammel). The diversity is demonstrated by diversity that fast that we find works of folk artists (Judit Nádor, Imre Molnár, József Pattantyus ), geometric works (László Borsódi, Erzsébet Pál, Katalin Szávoszt, Károly Szekeres), or János Török's works revealing influence of Henry Moore.,

The 1970 symposium fulfilled all the expectations that were associated with an international art camp. Hungarian ceramists worked together with fellow artists from across Europe for several weeks. At the multinational colony of artists a highly diverse creative activity was going on. The gracefully slender white porcelain vases by the Polish Krystyna Cybinska, the simple forms and decorative vessels by the Norwegian Leif Helge Enger or the minimalist, white, glazed geometric column of the Austrian couple Spurey or the Rococo richness reliefs by György FÜRTÖS or the spatial compositions by the Chech Václav Šerak. The rigorous and constructive car chaser by Csekovszky Árpád is a different story, just as the sensitive surface, organic animal figures by the Armenian Alde Kakabadze while both plastic works suggest ancient origins.

As in the previous year's symposium important emphasis is put on geometric, organic design, for which we can find examples in the works by József Garányi, Győző Lőrincz, János Majoros, Judit Nádor, Imre Schrammel or Károly Szekeres. The free experimentation and renewal of the ceramic genre was particularly eminent in works by Sándor Horváth and expressive works by Andreas Liljefors who died tragically during the symposium.

The symposium in 1971 was a thematic one, with the theme chosen by the organizers 'Potter. The presentation of these and later works from the artist colony is the objective of upcoming exhibitions.

The material was selected from the Janus Pannonius Museum Collection by the art historian József Sárkány.