8-BIT

In Balázs Szabó’s painting, the visuality of 80s computer games, children’s drawings and the good-natured freedom of naivety are combined with a unique technique that blends painterly and graphic qualities. Posters, silkscreens, graffiti and painting sketches come to mind, as do the falling pages of a schoolboy’s sketchbook. The purity of the reduced colours, their stark clarity, gives the images an originality that is felt rather than understood. His latest series also marks a long-awaited change of scale.