Áron Gábor | Rewinded
Áron Gábor's exhibition titled Rewinded in the acb Gallery. Opening: 6 March 2025 (Thursday) 18:00 - 21:00
Schedule
acb Gallery
March 6 – April 25, 2025
Opening: March 6, 2025 (Thursday) 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Gábor Áron’s (b. 1954) first solo exhibition at acb Gallery presents a selection of paintings from the late 1980s and early 1990s, offering visitors a renewed glimpse into one of the most exciting and dynamic periods of Hungarian art history leading up to the political transition. As one of the youngest and most energetic representatives of Hungary’s radical new eclecticism and postmodernism in the 1980s, Gábor Áron created not only paintings and graphic works but also a number of remarkable installations, performances, and video artworks throughout the decade.
The exhibiting artist graduated from the Painting Department of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 1981, studying under Ignác Kokas. In 1982-83, he continued his education in the mural painting master's program led by Károly Klimó. A crucial influence on his artistic career was his involvement in the Indigo Group, spearheaded by Miklós Erdély, as early as the late 1970s. His painting practice particularly flourished within the artistic framework of the “new sensitivity” concept, introduced by art historian Lóránd Hegyi, which characterized the 1980s.
As part of acb Gallery’s historical retrospection, the exhibition will focus on Gábor Áron’s expressive figurative paintings, deeply rooted in the zeitgeist of the 1980s. His works are often characterized by a private mythological symbolism, with a recurring central figure: the cat, which can be interpreted as an iconic embodiment of freedom. His paintings from the 1980s and 1990s exhibit a rich layering, reflection, and a free approach to media and motifs—elements that visitors will find in abundance throughout the exhibition.
Gábor Áron: Twisted III., 1991, mixed media on canvas, 100 x 420 cm, detail
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.
