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HÜBNER, Aranka Textile-designer (21st July, Budapest /Újpest/ - )   1949-1954: Hungarian College of Applied Arts; press design faculty, masters: Endre Rozs, György Jets, and Jenő Szervánszky. Between 1954 and 1955 he worked as a designer at the Goldberger Factory. 1955: Outstanding Worker Award in Light Industry; 1972: Munkácsy Award. He is a member if the Prisma 13 group. He is a member of the “great generation” of Hungarian Textile Designers, which at the turn of the 1960’s and 1970’s produced numerous works, which surpassed the borders of the genre, and thus served as a model to the whole of the Hungarian Arts Community of the time, in bringing about the possibility of producing value centered art exempt of ideology and politics. At the start of his career he began producing textile monotypes of natural motifs, such as fire, water, fish, rocks, and landscapes. He produced his unique sensational, motion-filled expressive natural landscapes through paint patches which spread into one another, as well as through dripping techniques (e.g.: Kagylók /Shells/, 1972). Following the his work at the Szovjet Kultúra és Tudomány Háza /House of Soviet Culture and Science), around the beginning of the 1970’s, which was a sort of summarization of his works thus far, his art became more and more disciplined, the place of the natural forms was taken by that of geometric forms (e.g.: Luna II. 1976, Holdfogyatkozás /Lunar Eclipse/, 1975, Fúga I-II., 1976). Then in his next period spanning up until the 1990’s, both sources were present in his works to different degrees, and at varying levels. In a segment of his works, produced during the period, clear geometric forms, amorphous figures appear (eg: Idő /Time/, 1976; Felhők felett /Above Clouds/, 1976), while in the other segment of his works the systems of geometric forms are only broken by at times a single playful element (Pulzár /Pulsar/, 1976). He also prepared relief works and special-textiles from pleated silk and canvases (Egy reláció fázisai /The phases of a relation/, 1978, Improvizációk I-III. /Improvisations I-III./, 1979, Pliszírozott formák /Pleated forms/, 1980), which formalize the general questions of existence with dramatic strength. Around the end of the 1980’s it was again geometry, which gained a more significant role in his works (Ablakok /Windows/, 1988), the systematic order contains within itself all the deforming powers, which were brought about in Hungary during the course of the 1980’s and 1990’s, due to the irrelevance, between artistic goals and the realities of the period. (translated by: Vladimir Végh)