GUIDED TOUR WITH LŐRINC BORSOS AND GÁBOR KOÓS | 18 MAY

INDA Gallery cordially invites you on Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 6 pm to the exhibition Gábor KOÓS: Dark Matter, in which artist duo Lőrinc Borsos will talk with Gábor Koós about their latest works, about the more than 1500 hours of 3D printed black sculptures that explore the presence of shadow and lack - at the same psychological and cosmological levels hurt.

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Lőrinc Borsos has been an active, fictional contemporary artist since 2008, born from the collaboration of János Borsos (1979-, Székesfehérvár) and Lilla Lőrinc (1980-, Mór) lasting more than fifteen years. However, this imaginary entity does not have a clearly identifiable and delineable identity, since one of the most important aesthetic aspirations of the creators is precisely the dismantling and rewriting of traditional artistic strategies and positions.

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Gábor Koós studied graphic design at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts. With his works in 2014, he won not only the Hungarian Graphic Arts of the Year award, but also the Miskolc Graphic Triennial Award, and the Gyula Derkovits Scholarship in the years following the end of his university years. In 2019, Koós won the Europe Prize of the Krakow International Graphic Biennale for her work You're both brown, they won't notice the difference in the USA Diary series. In 2025, she became one of the winners of the Esterházy Art Award.

The artist has been active in the region and beyond, participating in major residency programs and exhibiting in the spaces of renowned institutions (Banská St A Nica Contemporary, Selmecbánya (SK); Meetfactory, Prague (CZ); PROGR Art Center, Bern (CH); Kunststiftung, Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart (D); Budapest Gallery; Bruseum, Graz (AT); Museum of Modern Art Karnten, Klagenfurt (AT); Olomouc Museum of Art, Olomouc (CZ). His works can be found in important private and public collections, a piece of his Budapest Diary series is part of the collection of the Ludwig Museum.

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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: 14-18 hours or by prior appointment

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