Nemes Csaba: Festészet csinálás
Our 2024 exhibitions will open with the debut of Csaba Nemes (1966), who will join the gallery in the Plus space of acb.
Schedule
- 17:00-20:00Megnyitó
Since the fall of communism, Csaba Nemes has been one of the most active members of the Hungarian art scene, with countless international and Hungarian institutional exhibitions behind him, and in 2020 he began working on a radically new abstract painting programme. His exhibition at acb Plus is the first large-scale summary of this phase of his painting career.
Csaba Nemes's exhibition will include a selection of his series of paintings Making Painting 2023, Appearance 2022 and Range 2021. All three cycles are based on free, instinctive painting gestures, characterised by both thick paint application and retraction, and their contrasting compositions and motifs are interrelated, so that there are no sharp shifts between them. In many ways, moreover, the new works hark back to the early painting phase of the artist's career in the early 1990s and, like all abstract art, are highly self-reflexive.
Csaba Nemes graduated from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 1989, and is now an associate professor at the Painting Department of the University of Pécs. His works are part of the collections of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Albertina in Vienna, the Mocak in Krakow, the Ludwig Museum in Budapest and the Hungarian National Gallery, among others. His most recent large-scale solo exhibition was with Dia Zékány at the Emil Schumacher Museum in Hagen in 2023, and he has previously exhibited at M21 in Pécs, Mocak in Krakow, MMSU in Rijeka, the House of Arts in Ústí nad Labem and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Dunaújváros.
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.