Ágnes Lörincz (1959), who has lived in Germany since 1985, last exhibited her works in Budapest in 2009.

One of the central themes in Lörincz’s work is the projection of consumer society onto the individual, the world of advertising, fashion and lifestyle and their social and political implications. His work blends conceptual art, pop art and the „new savages“. Her most recent works, which are being shown for the first time in Hungary at The Space, are self-reflexively linked to certain aspects of the role of women.

Her solo exhibition Loneliness Sleeps Beneath the Clothes is a contradictory collision of the existential state of loneliness and its relationship to the external and material aspects of life that affect people of all ages and walks of life today. On the one hand, our digital world has made it easier for us to communicate, but on the other hand, today’s human being is perhaps the loneliest 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. Man struggles with fears and beliefs, closes himself off and tries to compensate for his abandonment with something: be it the desire to stand out, to take refuge in compulsive or substitute behaviour.

Lörincz draws both intellectually and aesthetically from the tradition of pop art. Her garish, pure-coloured pictures, reminiscent of consumer society fashion items and fashion magazines, are a reflection of the alienation of modern society and at the same time a protest against it. The introverted figures, the schematic portraits or the often faceless, mutilated deformations fill the surface alone and isolate themselves from one another. In the paintings, the depiction of the body recedes into the background; the focus of the pictures is on the empty items of clothing: The cropping, the collage character of the pictures and the pairing of the pictorial elements with textiles or even the depiction of the details of the clothing reflect this alienation. (cpyright: The Space)

Opening October 4 at 6.00 pm

The Space – Contemporay Art Gallery
Hattyú utca 16 (ground floor 4, bell 53)
H-1015 Budapest
Tel. 0036 30 9148 442
E-mail hello@thespace.hu

Opening hours:
Mon – Fri 12:00 – 18:00, or by appointment

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