Ágnes Lörincz (1959), an artist who has been living in Germany since 1985, last exhibited her works in 2009.
One of the central themes of Lörincz's work is the projection of consumer society onto the individual, the world of advertising, fashion and lifestyle, and its social and political implications. His work mixes conceptual art, pop art and the "new wild". Her recent works, shown for the first time in Hungary at The Space, are self-reflexively infused with specific aspects of certain issues of women's roles.

Loneliness sleeps under the clothes her solo exhibition, the existential condition of loneliness and solitude, and its relationship to the external and material, which affects people of all ages and social strata today, is confronted in a contradictory way in her colourful, virtuoso paintings. On the one hand, our digital world has made it easier for us to communicate, yet man today is perhaps the most lonely in our history. As we have moved away from our roots and our existence in community, our connection to nature and our human bonds have become more superficial. Humans struggle with fears and beliefs, closing themselves off and trying to compensate for their abandonment with something: whether it be a desire to stand out, to escape into forced or substitute actions.

Lörincz draws on the tradition of pop art in both intellectual and aesthetic terms. His images, painted in loud, pure colors and reminiscent of consumer society fashion items and fashion magazines, are imprints of the alienation of modern society, which is also a protest against it. The introverted figures, schematic portraits, or often faceless, mutilated torsos that appear in the images fill the surface alone, isolated from each other. In the paintings, the depiction of the body recedes into the background, and the focus of the images shifts to empty clothing: the cropping of the images, the collage-like nature of the paintings, and the pairing of painterly elements with textiles, or even the details of the clothing, reflect this alienation fueled by externalities.

ARTIST(S)
EXHIBITED ARTWORKS
EXHIBITION INTERIOR
EVENTS
04 Oct

Opening

  • 6:00 pm
  • The Space

The exhibition will be opened by artist Ágnes Lőrincz and gallery owner Linda Bérczi.

25 Oct

Artist talk

  • 6:00 pm
  • The Space

How can visual art help people understand and cope with feelings of isolation? What messages can works of art dealing with the theme of loneliness convey to society? During the conversation, Ágnes Lörincz will share her thoughts on her life and the ideas behind her works, and there will also be a discussion about the art world in Berlin.

PRESS
SPONSOR(S)
The exhibition was supported by the National Cultural Fund of Hungary.