acb Gallery, Budapest
Nov 08 – Dec 05
curated by Zsolt Miklósvölgyi
logo design: Áron Lődi
photo: Dávid Tóth
In their latest solo exhibition, showcased at the acb Gallery, the artist duo Borsos Lőrinc leaves behind the darker, pathos-driven world-building strategies that have characterized their recent works. Instead, under the banner of a new fictional art movement, Neo Inertia, they proclaim a poetic apotheosis of "new inertia" and "absence of stakes." Paradoxically, this includes a kind of aesthetic overproduction and dispersion, through which they collectively revise both their former critical artistic practice and the speculative inquiries that followed it.
Reflecting on and paying homage to the neo-avant-garde artist Bálint Szombathy, who exhibits concurrently at the acb Attachment, they have reworked their own flagship pieces. This positions their politically austere art practice of the 2010s within a creative dialogue that does not shy away from polemics, invoking the spirit of a revolution without iconoclasm. At the same time, it can be understood as a subversive self-critical exercise, an act of artistic self-accusation and self-incrimination—a gesture not foreign to Borsos Lőrinc’s practice.
In this framework, the artists over-identify with perceived or real critiques and phantom accusations regarding their work, often coming from heteronomous artistic positions. They transform these into artistic gestures, reabsorbing them into their autonomous aesthetic program and presenting them in the form of installations visible here. Instead of a self-critique that offers the false promise of absolution, this latest work is marked by self-irony. It embraces a playful, colorful ease (sprezzatura) infused with absurd humor, rather than the solemn aesthetics of overwhelming gestures in the sublime romantic tradition.
Thus, Neo Inertia, Borsos Lőrinc's exhibition, embodies a sensual conceptualism where Boris Groys’ program of "de-design" and "de-functionalization" merges with the DIY aesthetics of arte povera and the spontaneous energies of punk. Quick sketches and fanciful doodles: art for oneself, not foreign hurdles.
SÖTÉT FÉNYEK Lidércfény és Neo Inertia / article obout the show from Sándor Hornyik on exindex, 30.12.2024
exhibition view / entering
exhibition view
Belshazzar’s Feast, 2024, bad drawings, wallpaper paste, MDF, neon, 150 x 200 cm
Belshazzar’s Feast
Transfiguration of Borsos Lőrinc / Belshazzar’s Feast
exhibition view / corridor
Transfiguration of Borsos Lőrinc (BL feat. Ingatlan), 2024, mixed media, 100 x 30 cm
Transfiguration of Borsos Lőrinc, detail
Miami Mint (BL feat. Ingatlan), 2024, mixed media, 79 x 57 cm
Miami Mint
Miami Mint, 2024, detail
Miami Mint, 2024, detail
exhibition view
De Bono („I think BL is Dead”), 2024, mixed media, 20 x 22 cm
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exhibition view
exhibition view
mascot, 2024, oil, enamel on wooden board, 20 x 30 x 9 cm
mascot
G. O. D. (BL feat. ingatlan), 2024, acrilyc on wooden board, 160 x 120 cm
G. O. D. (BL feat. ingatlan), detail
G. O. D., detail
G. O. D., detail
Join or D.I.Y., 2024, oil, enamel, plexi on wooden board, 160 x 120 cm
Join or D.I.Y., 2024, oil, enamel, plexi on wooden board, 160 x 120 cm
Join or D.I.Y., detail
Join or D.I.Y., detail
exhibition view
Neo Inertia, 2024, mixed media, 30 x 20 x 8 cm
Neo Inertia
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Seven Dope Years, 2024, oil, enamel, 3D print onwooden board, 110 x 150 cm
Seven Dope Years, detail
Seven Dope Years, detail
Seven Dope Years, detail
exhibition view
Gas Alert!
Gas Alert!
Gas Alert!, 2024, acrylic, lambskin on wooden board, 66 x 23 x 24 cm
exhibition view
Sexy Dead, 2024, acrylic, plexi on pvc, 30 x 20 x 20 cm
exhibition view
Doodles series
Doodles series
BL feat. Mécs & ingatlan: revision, (Doodles series), 2024, acrilyc on wooden board, 100 x 148 x 10 cm
O. G. / OwnGoal / Betadin / colors/scene
(Doodles series)
O. G. (Doodles series), 2024, mixed media on wooden board, 20,6 x 30 x 5 cm
OwnGoal (Doodles series), 2024, acrylic, chocolate paper on canvas, (20 x 30 x 5 in plexi box)
OwnGoal (Doodles series)
colors/scene (Doodles series), 2024, acrylic, metal on wooden board, 20,6 x 30 x 5 cm
Betadine (Doodles series), 2024, acrilyc on wooden board, 6,8 x 40 x 4,7d cm
IN DARK / DARK IN (Doodles series)
IN DARK / DARK IN (Doodles series)
one Jób (Doodles series), 2024, felt, acrylic, paper, plexi, 20 x 30 x 5 cm
one Jób (Doodles series), detail
Money Box, (Doodles series), 2024, acrilyc, enamel on wood, 7 x 10 x 5 cm
easter egg
New Testament / CatCraddle / Etalon 0.5 (Doodles series)
New Testament, 2024, enamel waterproof powder on wooden board, 20 x 30 x 5 cm
CatCraddle ((fish in a dish) (drug orgia)) (Doodles series), 2024, gold smoke, acrylic, duct tape, 20 x 30 x 5 cm
Etalon 0.5 (Doodles series), 2024, 100% enamel, 20 x 30 x 2,5 cm
Perthes P. (Doodles series), 2024, acrylic, pencil, felt pen, spray, 70 x 70 x 10 cm
Half Figure (Doodles series), 2024, watercolour, acrylic, enamel, lacquer, 30 x 45 cm
UV Brown / Tobias and the Excalibur (Doodles series), 2024, acrylic, metal plate, 30 x 60 x 10 cm
UV Brown / Tobias and the Excalibur (Doodles series), detail
Dong, 2024, (BL feat. Ingatlan)
UV Brown / Tobias and the Excalibur (Doodles series), detail
Gas ALert!, 2001-2024, drawing, plastic, 8 x 14 cm
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nemes Kokesch, 2024, acrylic, plexiglass, pvc on wooden board, 20 x 30 x 5 cm
Josef and His Brothers on plexi
Josef and His Brothers, 2024, acrylic on wooden board, 128 x 88 cm
Josef and His Brothers, 2024, acrylic on wooden board, 128 x 88 cm
Josef and His Brothers, detail
Josef and His Brothers, detail
Josef and His Brothers, detail
Josef and His Brothers, detail
Josef and His Brothers, detail
Josef and His Brothers, detail
Display, 2024, oil on wooden board, 20 x 30 x 15 cm
exhibition view
A!, 2024, acrylic, neon on wooden board, 35 x 45 x 15 cm
exhibition view
N. Time, 2024, mixed media, 90 x 90 cm
N. Time
N. Time, detail
N. Time, detail
N. Time, detail
N. Time, detail
N. Time, detail
Eliassonka, 2024, mixed media, 42 x 73 x 52 cm
Eliassonka, 2024, mixed media, 42 x 73 x 52 cm
Eliassonka, 2024, mixed media, 42 x 73 x 52 cm
Eliassonka, detail
Eliassonka, detail
Eliassonka
Eliassonka, detail
exhibition view
exhibition view
exhibition view (under UV light)
on wall: Gas Alert!, 2024, uv paint on wall, variable size
exhibition view (under UV light)
on wall: Gas Alert!, 2024, uv paint on wall, variable size
exhibition view (under UV light)
exhibition view (under UV light)
exhibition view (under UV light)
exhibition view (under UV light)
exhibition view
Bonus painting 01., 2023, mixed media, 70 x 100 cm
Bonus painting 02., 2023, mixed media, 70 x 100 cm