Gryllus Ábris: Invokáció
Our gallery is pleased to announce Invocation, a new exhibition at the Imre Bak Space by Ábris Gryllus, composer and interdisciplinary artist, whose practice spans the fields of sound, visual media, and research-based artistic methodologies.
Invocation is a multi-channel sound and video installation that builds on Gryllus’s doctoral research into the compositional potentials of data science, data visualization, and sonification. Central to the project is a half-hour-long music piece, conceived and composed by Gryllus in collaboration with Thea Soti (voice) and Matuska Flóra (cello) employing a specially developed system of notation and instruction grounded in hydrological data sonification.
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The work takes as its point of departure the meditative observation of water as a “hyperobject” (Timothy Morton) — an entity of planetary scale whose morphologies and transformations exceed immediate human comprehension. Translating these hydrological processes into sound, Gryllus opens a space for collective listening, contemplation, and immersion.
The composition is accompanied by a large-scale video installation that transforms surface morphologies of water into fully digital environments, as well as a unique print derived from the project’s data sources and two synchronized screens displaying the musical notations. Together, these elements articulate a complex, multi-sensory exploration of water as both material and metaphor, echoing the planetary scales of ecological interdependence.
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.