• 06. September 2007. - 28. February 2008.

Art has been recording the seasons and their variations, highly symbolic to artists in all media. Applying the principle of continuity in changing of times.

While focusing on the sighing of the nature, on its rush, on its flash for love and its turning inward. Varicoloured, diverse, mystic, elusive and eternal. The seasons' changing - a never-ending circle.

Many pieces of the Herend Porcelain Manufactory's entire collection are depicting scenes as seen during the four seasons. This exhibition focuses on the distinctive characters of times of the year. Herend masters caught minutes in this never-ending circle, and provide insight at a point in time - like a snapshot.

The Herend Porcelain Art Museum, the Manufactory's Showroom and its show-cases stock décors and forms, those preserve the finest expression of diverse moments of life. These are both well-known and popular motifs and ones, almost forgotten. Not displayed for even decades. With this exhibition we wake up the Sleeping Beauties.

You may enter this place on a rainy, gloomy autumn afternoon and you get inspired by looking closely at the season's beauty, shown on Herend Porcelain: adorned with its fruits and grains, with its grapes ripen at this time and you discover the joy of beaujolais. The time of the harvest, the time of bounteous fecundity. The chestnuts; the autumn leaves evocative in their colours from bright yellows to vibrant reds; you see how flowers set at defiance with the harsh cold; the hunting in woodland at the chilly peep at dawn; luscious mushrooms and the miracle of the first snow.

 Whether you step in at winter time, you will even not be left intact. The signs of the most blessed feast appear on Herend Porcelain - only indicated or marked definitely or even hung on a Christmas tree. But you may find evidence of the carnival time as well. Winter is meaningful: white and bright, glistering like the shiny Herend Porcelain, yet plain. Resting and waiting for something. Waiting to be woken up, to be decorated, to be dressed up.

The snowdrop is one of the best representative of the awakening, the first bulb to bloom in spring. The design of a solitary pendulous, bell-shaped flower you will find this time on Herend Porcelain.

Herend Porcelain: a leading brand in porcelain-making the world over, the Manufactory that turns out and markets excellent quality luxury porcelain for its lovers and collectors. Art of the Seasons - as an exhibition theme, is only one of the diverse possible topics. It tells you about last season's different moods, the different yellow of the leaves at fall, the different savour of the fruits coming from the same plum-tree, the vintage wines or about the different feelings whether you spend the Christmas-time alone or with your One and Only. It accentuates the uniqueness of any given season. Fine nuances those attract on Herend Porcelain. A premium leading manufacturer show you with this exhibition what is never alike, what is extraordinary, what is exquisite, so exquisite like only our nature can be.

Herend Porcelain during its 181 years' history has revived time after time, has been a messenger of new trends while capturing the wisdom and spirit of the wintery forest... Powerfully eloquent.