Áron Kútvölgyi-Szabó
Gábor Kristóf
Máté Dobokay
DISTRACTING MODERNITY
Exhibition opening: 23. 10. 2018 / 19.00 hod. Exhibition's duration: 24. 10. - 18. 11. 2018 Exhibition's curator: Áron Fenyvesi
The group exhibition casts light on a new generation of Hungarian artists, who are redefining the use of abstraction in different media of contemporary art, like photography, sculpture, and installation. Analog technologies are resurfacing in the works of the three artists to juxtapose our digitally reshaped reality and to perform the relevance of subjective artistic production in the 21st century.
The exhibitors create blurs and analog glitches with their works in the appropriated modernist field of visuality. The generation of Hungarian artists highlighted by Dobokay, Kristóf, and Kútvölgyi-Szabó overidentify and manipulate the abstract visual language in order to distract and highlight the obvious cracks and discrepancies in the remnants of modernist structures as well in art as well in our contemporary society – for instance, they refer to and use monochrome “painting” to criticize the limits of the use of modernist color scales and they work with complex networks, which are aiming to describe real structures, but because of their complexity, they are hardly understandable anymore, which creates the playfield for such commonplaces as post-truth.
Máté Dobokay (1988) uses abstraction as a tool to articulate his chemical experiments which he utilizes for his pseudo-painterly photographic practice. Gábor Kristóf (1988), Košice born and Budapest based artist overidentifies through his practice with industrial methods of creating art, but he manages to find a very refined and sensitive balance between conceptualism and monochrome painting. Áron Kútvölgyi-Szabó (1985) primarily analyses models of networks through a sculptural logic. He is also working with grid systems that are a par-excellence modernist vehicle for organizing perception and knowledge which he often interacts with such notions as post-truth, fragmentation, and distortion.
Exhibitions of this gallery are supported by Slovak Arts Council. Slovak Arts Council is the main partner of the project.
