Acb Gallery presents a selection from a newly discovered series by Endre Tót (b. 1937, Sümeg, Hungary), a hitherto unknown, extraordinary art historical speciality influenced by the New Fauves painting of the 1980s.
Made in secret between 1982 and 1985, now on view to the public for the first time ever, Tót’s paintings – to which he continued to make associated works even in 1986, as evidenced by one double-sided painting – were lying rolled-up in the artist’s basement in Cologne for almost 40 years.
The 103 paintings – on paper, often on both sides, with the exception of a single canvas – and the hundreds of contemporaneous drawings and stamp works were transferred to Budapest in 2021. The presentation of this body of works allows us to see the career, creative spirit and artistic character of Endre Tót, a recognized figure in both Hungarian and international conceptual art in the 1970s, through a new lens.
The latest publication of acb ResearchLab, edited by Kata Balázs and András Heszky, is published in conjunction with the exhibition. The lavishly illustrated volume includes an interview with Endre Tót by the editors as well as essays by Dávid Fehér and Loránd Hegyi on the artist’s newly discovered series.