Our 2024 exhibition series opens with the debut of Csaba Nemes (1966), who joins the gallery, in the Plus space of acb. An active member of the Hungarian art scene since the fall of communism, with numerous international and Hungarian institutional exhibitions behind him, Csaba Nemes began working in 2020 with a radically new abstract painting programme. His exhibition at acb Plus is the first large-scale summary of this phase of his painting career.
Csaba Nemes’s exhibition will include a selection of his painting series Making Painting (2023), Appearance (2022) and Range (2021). All three cycles are based on free, instinctive painting gestures, characterised by both thick paint application and retraction, and their contrasting compositions and motifs are interrelated, so that there are no sharp shifts between them. In many ways, moreover, the new works hark back to the early painting phase of the artist’s career in the early 1990s and, like all abstract art, are highly self-reflexive.