The latest group exhibition at acb Gallery focuses on the medium of textiles. Over the past years, as a result of acb ResearchLab’s research, the gallery has published two monographs and organised several solo exhibitions of Hungarian experimental textile art by artists such as Margit Szilvitzky, Klára Kuchta, Aranka Hübner and Lujza Gecser. However, the exhibition at acb Plus not only puts the historical works of these artists back into context, but also aims to show that Hungarian textile art is now an integral part of Hungarian contemporary art history. Thus, the acb exhibition includes works that are not directly related to the textile movement, but which are thematically or formally connected in many ways, as well as textile-based works by younger generation artists, broadening the viewers’ perspective.
The group exhibition uses the key metaphor of the fold as a central motif and organising principle. Contemporary philosophical and aesthetic thinking, which (re)explored the art of the Baroque period, sees in the concepts of fold, fold, crease, inflection the possibility of resolving seemingly irreconcilable opposites. In this sense, folds and folds can be not only motifs or objects, but also events or processes through which the material-form, organic-organic, outward-inside, and inward-inside opposites can be transcended. The selection presented in this exhibition is, we hope, further proof that textiles are still a privileged field for creative experimentation and a medium that inspires renewal of artistic genres.