Borsos Lőrinc: Neo Inertia
acb Galéria
2024. november. 8. – december. 6
vernissage: 2024. november. 7. 18:00 – 21:00
Schedule
With their latest solo exhibition at acb Gallery, the Borsos Lőrinc artist duo is stepping away from the dark, pathos-driven world-building strategies that have characterized their recent work. Instead, under the banner of a newly imagined art movement called Neo Inertia, they proclaim an "apotheosis of inaction" and "absence of stakes." Paradoxically, however, this is done through an aesthetic of excess and dispersion, as they revisit both their earlier critical art practices and the questions raised in their subsequent speculative phase. This time, self-irony replaces self-critique, while playful, effortless lightness infused with absurd humor takes the place of drab, grand gestures. The latest Borsos Lőrinc exhibition, titled Neo Inertia, emerges from a sensual conceptualism, in which the "de-designing" and "de-functionalizing" (Boris Groys) program merges with the bricolage aesthetic of Arte Povera and the spontaneous energy of punk. Quick sketches and fanciful doodles: art for oneself, not foreign hurdles.
acb Gallery
Founded in Budapest in 2003, acb Gallery has consistently grown in the past two decades establishing itself as one of the leading actors in the Hungarian and Eastern European art market. Initially, the gallery’s focus was on Hungarian and international emerging and mid-generation neo-conceptual artists, who became active after the political changes in the former Eastern Bloc in 1990. Since then, the gallery has expanded its focus, and now represents numerous Hungarian neo-avant-garde artists who have left their mark on art history since the 1960s and 1970s, as well as members of the youngest generations beside the already established ones. Since the autumn of 2022, acb runs three exhibition spaces: the main gallery space, acb Attachment, which serves as a project space, and acb Plus, dedicated to large-scale solo and group presentations. acb’s research and publishing department, acb ResearchLab was founded in 2015. This platform within the gallery aims to fill the gaps in the reception and publication of Hungarian neo-avant-garde and post-avant-garde oeuvres by studying bodies of works and art phenomena previously treated as peripheral. The gallery holds significant importance within the global art market, actively promoting its artists nationally as well as internationally and engaging in art fairs, such as the Art Basel in Basel and Art Basel Miami Beach, the Frieze Masters London or the ARCO Madrid.