The square at the apex of Malevich’s classic and Mondrian’s – and the much more liberated Broadway boogie-woogie composition of 1942-43 – as well as the concepts of the computer-generated pixel and the self-designed fonts of his own artistic foundation are the main cornerstones of György Szőnyei’s art. It is from these elementary units that the works on display in the Kunsthalle’s #Box Squares exhibition are composed, using elements of the Archian typeface family designed by Széchenyi György Szőőőeiro in the exhibition space and in the accompanying publication.
A graduate in applied graphics from the Hungarian Academy of Applied Arts, Szőnyei became associated with the new sensibility and the new eclecticism in the 1980s. The artist, who also excelled in fine art, graphic design, type design and teaching, has created a dialogue between the different fields of fine art and graphic design presented in the Kunsthalle.