Wave, net, sand
Date: 06.07. - 24.08.2018.
Opening show: 05 July 2018 (Thursday) 7pm - 9pm
The selection of works presented at acb Gallery’s summer exhibition was inspired by the season. The group show takes wave, a reoccurring topos of art as its conception, which as a motif, structure and physical phenomenon appears in several neo-avant-garde and contemporary works. The wave besides its evident association to water conveys the sense of movement, entropy, turmoil as an organic abstract surface and as optical interference. The motif of net, occurring in some of the works, on the other hand, stand as a metaphor for predictability and scientific, systematic order; the logic behind the design of mosquito net or fishnet can be associated to it, as well as patterns of immaterial networks. The exhibition with its generational and medial diversity showcases the variety of the usages of these motifs, as well as their interactions with each other.
Artists: Tibor Csiky, Máté Dobokay, Aranka Hübner, Károly Kismányoky, Áron Kútvölgyi-Szabó, Katalin Nádor, Gyula Pauer, Hajnalka Tarr, Tibor w. Horváth
Katalin Ladik: Singing Chests
Date: 06.07. - 24.08.2018.
Opening show: 05 July 2018 (Thursday) 7pm - 9pm
The acb NA’s season-ending exhibition presents Katalin Ladik’s latest sound poetry project. The antecedent of Singing Chests is a photo series resulting from the collaboration of Bálint Szombathy and Katalin Ladik, members of the Bosch+Bosch artist group, known for its commitment to conceptualism. The visual elements of the series captured during the artists’ trip to Tenerife in 1976 are fish crates discovered in the city port, and their colourful letters, signs and codes that can be interpreted as visual poetry. In order to read them as such, Katalin Ladik revisited the photographs of the Singing Chests in 2017 and used them as scores for a phonic interpretation in a free and loose manner. Along the artist’s concept, the images appear in the form of a projection in the expanded musical space.
Ferenc Gróf: "or firing of a red star alert"
Date: 06.07. - 03.08.2018.
Opening show: 05 July 2018 (Thursday) 7pm - 9pm
Ferenc Gróf (1972) as a member of the Société Réaliste group has created a peculiar toolkit from linguistic and typographic elements, statistics and cartographic signs to examine social processes and to exhibit correlations between past and present. He preserved this approach and vision even after the dissolution of the artist group. His work considers ideological footprints, at the intersection of graphic design and spatial experiences.