Guided tour by LÁSZLÓ SZÁZADOS at the exhibition GÁBOR KOÓS: DARK MATTER | July 3

The INDA Gallery is pleased to invite you to the exhibition Gábor KOÓS: Dark Matter on Thursday, July 3, 2025, at 6 pm, at which art historian László Százados will conduct a guided tour.

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László Százados graduated from the Faculty of Art History and History at the Faculty of Art at the Faculty of Art. He has been working at the Hungarian National Gallery since 1988, the Contemporary Collection until 2020, he has been the chief museologist of the KEMKI Archive and Documentation Center (ADK) since 2021. He has been an editor of the contemporary art magazine Balkon since 1997. He has been a member of the Hungarian Section of AICA since 1999. Director, contributor to permanent (MNG) and monographic and thematic temporary exhibitions (MNG; Ludwig Museum, BTM Capital Gallery — Kiscell Museum, etc.), as well as editor and collaborator of related publications. His research focuses on Hungarian art and institutional history of the second half of the 20th century, as well as contemporary Hungarian fine art, with a view to its frontier areas such as dance and movement art.

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Gábor Koós: Dark Matter

Wood prints, terry prints, print-based paintings — from the very beginning, Gábor Koós's creative practice examines the acquisition of experiences and living with us, the formation and evolution of memories, the phenomena of the external and personal, internal world and the transformation of processes into images in theory and in the method of making them.

Koós's investigations enter a new dimension through the sculptures presented in the exhibition Dark Matter, which opens at the end of May. The discovery of sculpture through 3D printing is, on the one hand, a logical and organic continuation of his previous method of tracing, and at the same time an introspection. Born as a result of more than 1500 hours of printing, in black sculptures (photogrammetries) in complete form, sometimes fragmentary, showing phases at once, the shadows of the self, the inner working in the depths of the personality, are shown in different situations and project into space the process of self-exploration, contemplation, acceptance and integration. Dark matter is a shadow in the Jungian sense, part of the unconscious. Black sculptures can thus be confrontational surfaces: they do not idealize, but confront scarcity, deformity, rawness.

In addition to psychological reading, no matter what, the title of the series opens up other deep and abstract layers. In cosmology, dark matter is not visible, but it holds the structure of the universe together. Interpreted in this framework, sculptures can also be such hidden structures: materialized imprints of internal, psychic processes, emotions or parts of identity. In the works, this inner, not understood, but acting force is embodied - it controls, even if we do not see it.

At the same time, dark matter is also a raw material. Black sculptures are indeed made of dark material — not only symbolically, but also materially. Black, matte surfaces do not reflect, but absorb light. This is in contrast to the “reflective” idea (l) of classical sculpture. The statue is thus an anti-icon, an anti-memory: it is not an image of something, but the presence of a lack, a shadow, a vacuum. All this also reflects on the missing parts of the sculpture, which leads to the questions of existence and lack — matter and antimatter. The black form is present as a mass, but often the empty space, the lack, the negative form are just as important — here, in the case of sculptures, the missing parts are the forms of lack. Dark matter can thus also be a dialectic of presence and lack — something that is there, yet we cannot grasp.

Exhibition: May 22 — July 4, 2025 Opening hours: Tuesday-Friday: from 14-18 hours or by prior appointment

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