Summer Show

Gallery: acb Galeria

Budapest

Artists: Imre Bak, Robert Batyko, Marcell Esterhazy, Istvan Felsmann, Gabor Gerhes, Ferenc Grof, Peter Tamas Halasz, Csaba Kis Roka, Tamas Komoroczky, Ladik Katalin, Erik Matrai, Gabor Rosko, Peter Szalay, Peter Szarka, Hajnalka Tarr, Tilo Schulz, Csaba Uglar, Gyula Varnai, Janos Veto

The main organising principle of Imre Bak’s latest series is the painted frame. Cut at a 45 degree angle, one of the stripes in the bicolour band resembling a meander or labyrinth reminiscent of the artist’s work from the early 1980s, present in each painting of the series, endows the images with a depth evoking axonometric three-dimensional rendering, further reinforced by rectangles of different colour intensity. As Dávid Fehér also point... more >> The main organising principle of Imre Bak’s latest series is the painted frame. Cut at a 45 degree angle, one of the stripes in the bicolour band resembling a meander or labyrinth reminiscent of the artist’s work from the early 1980s, present in each painting of the series, endows the images with a depth evoking axonometric three-dimensional rendering, further reinforced by rectangles of different colour intensity. As Dávid Fehér also points out in his analysis of the series, the paintings depicting relations of light and space inquire into the relation of representation and abstraction.

The new exhibition of acb NA focuses on – mostly little known – works, which reflect the relationship to the erotic culture of the Hungarian underground before 1989. The particular language appearing in the presented photographs, visual poems and a piece of painting, prooves that the neo-avantgarde not only recaptured the notion of the body, but also critically reflected on it and turned to it as the subject of visual explorations. As an important emphasis of the exhibition, the traditional, male-dominated discourses are counterpointed with alternatives offered by women artists, who, by aspiring to create an own usage of language, marked the appearance of a feminism-inspired approach.

Summer Show

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