Techno Zen

The project titled Techno Zen was designed by Márton Nemes as an immersive environment, a painting-based Gesamtkunstwerk. In recent years, the expansion of the genre of painting, its extension to other media and the crossing of its boundaries by incorporating the effects of complementary but seemingly contrasting pairs has become central to the artist's practice. Nemes's work is greatly influenced by techno subcultures, so that the explosion and rearrangement of the pictorial field gives a distinctive psychedelic character to his paintings that extend into abstract domains and evoke the visual atmosphere and lighting of today's nightclubs. In this project, the term techno also refers to techne and technological art. In the domain of painting, a fusion of several industrial technologies and materials gives rise to painting object, installation and mobile painterly ambience. Laser-cut steel, car paint, projection, speakers and fans reinterpret the palette of painting.

The event will be held in English.
The talk meeting will take place as part of the exhibition “Soft Spaces, Shared Grounds.”
The talk can be attended both at the Kunsthalle and online via Zoom.

Bio

Márton Nemes (b. 1986, Székesfehérvár, Hungary) is a multimedia artist based in New York and Budapest, creating paintings, sculptures, installations and sounds. He received an MFA from Chelsea College of Arts, London in 2018. Initially inspired by the architecture of Budapest, a city that he has spent the majority of his life residing in, Nemes’s practice is rooted in the colourful abstraction of buildings. Since this early work, and after moving to London, Nemes has been heavily influenced by techno subcultures, continuing to create abstracted colourful works whilst attempting to duplicate the atmosphere and experience of rave culture, creating a disintegration and rearrangement of the pictorial state. Made using a range of materials, Nemes’s artworks are eager to expand and bend, referencing the escapist counter cultures associated with rave scenes, creating multisensory, diverse experiences.

Volo Bevza studied stage design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kyiv (UA) from 2010 to2014, where he graduated with a Master’s degree in 2015. This was followed by studies in fine arts at the weißensee school of art and design berlin, where he graduated in 2019 as a master student in the class of Prof. Friederike Feldmann.
Bevza’s work deals with the omnipresence of the internet, focusing on the question of the role of painting in the post-digital age. He relies on the hybridization of the painting process to open up new, critical perspectives within the medium of painting. Themes such as the critical failure of digital tools, the shattered dream of egalitarian social media, and democracy in jeopardy as a result, form the background for his artistic practice.
Volo Bevza lives in Berlin and works as a visual artist, lecturer and curator.