The Kisterem’s new venue debuts with an exhibition of the latest works by Zsolt Molnár (1989), a member of the gallery’s younger generation who is radically repositioning graphic thinking.
Molnár’s works rewrite the traditions of graphic art and explore the possibilities of manual execution in the world of digital aesthetics. He builds montage-based collage architectures on a flat surface, which he collides with dynamic, spatial elements, thus blending the cosmos of reality and virtuality. The thematic focus of visual abstraction and spatial extension is the fundamental relationship between humans, nature, and technology in the Anthropocene and post-humanism era.
Foliage Head — Molnár’s fourth solo exhibition in Kisterem — is an organic continuation of his work to date, reflecting on the fragility and vulnerability of the ecosystem’s balance and the functioning of the agroecological environment shaped by external interventions.
The exhibition, which summarizes nearly a year and a half of work, explores aspects of the passage of time by juxtaposing the concepts of transience and transformation. Using motifs such as the hourglass, the caterpillar, and the chewed leaf, Molnár’s works, which require a constant shift in spatial perspective and can also be interpreted as flowcharts, focus on nature’s dynamic ability to adapt and constantly reorganize itself in response to human presence.
Lili Rebeka Tóth