Easttopics presents Adrian Kiss’ latest solo exhibition that features three new works created specifically for the occasion. Adrian Kiss has developed a boldly experimental approach to and use of different materials, especially natural/synthetic textiles and leather. His childhood being strongly shaped by the physical remains of Socialism, memories of and nostalgia for materials, textures, forms, colours and patterns of everyday objects of that period, as well as references to socialist industrial production became a central motive and source of inspiration in his work.
For the exhibition Lethal Dose of Time, the young artist distanced himself slightly from his previous „design objects”, and created two relief works on canvas and panel, as well as one quilted leather piece. These hybrid creations synthesize archaic elements, archaeologic references, biomorphic structures, components of futuristic design, industrial aesthetics, synthetic materials and high-tech motifs that stand as characteristic traits of his practice.
The three pieces seem to form the different chapters of a narrative thread, which could be the discovery of a new form of life, the excavation and reconstruction of remains left by a civilization that could have been ours in a parallel dimension. Details evoking (exo)skeletons, weapon-like bones, signs of an unknown alphabet, living organic matter and shiny organs in formation compose a visual repertoire, a laboratory of alien origins that addresses directly our subconscious, raw, primary imagination.