Agnes Denes Eco-logic - philosophy in landscape
Agnes Denes' second solo exhibition at acb Gallery focuses on her early land art work Rice/Tree/Burial. The action was first realised by the artist in 1968 as a "private ritual" and repeated a decade later. As the first exercise of his concept of Eco-Logic, which emphasised the importance of ecological thinking and action, the event marked Denes' commitment to environmental and human issues.
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Rice/Tree/Burial, the first ecologically themed public artwork, consisted of planting rice to symbolise life and growth, chaining trees to symbolise intervention in life and natural processes, and burying the artist's own haiku, symbolising abstract thought and creation. The three interconnected and interdependent chapters of this ecophilosophical work were the first expression in Denes' practice of the triangulation (thesis, antithesis, synthesis) that structured his early programmatic work and later projects.
The exhibition was realized in collaboration with Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York.
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.
