Jazz Cat
- 2022
- szitanyomat, papír
- 70x50 cm
- Unframed
- Signed
- Ed. 35 + 5 AP
- Heart and Cherry Limited Editions, Budapest
His screen prints are playful and expressive, yet minimalist meta-collages that evoke media symbols and musical references of different eras through a nostalgic sense of futurism.
He lives and works in Berlin. Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna in 2011 and was a postgraduate Meisterschüler student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig (2014–2017). “The meta-collages, composed of visual materials of two distinct but in many ways parallel futuristic periods – the years around 1968 as the culmination point of “Popular Modernism” and the years of 1989 with a special emphasis on the Rave movement’s struggle against the neoliberal invasion of cultural and political imagination – are the sensual results of a seemingly paradox strategy of digging up the past in search of the future, unearthing the still potent utopian impulses repressed by the antimodern consensus.”
Quotes by Barnabás Zemlényi-Kovács from the book Youhu, 2022