Márton Nemes’s exhibition entitled Techno Zen was presented at the Biennale Arte 2024. Conceived as an immersive environment and a painting-based Gesamtkunstwerk, the project highlights the expansion of the genre of painting, its extension to other media and the crossing of its boundaries in the artist’s recent practice.
Márton Nemes’s work is greatly influenced by techno subcultures; 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. Combining painterly and sculptural elements, his paintings and multimedia installations create a hypnotic spatial dynamic that propels the viewer from the harshness of the real world into a fluid, dizzying colour field.
The term techno also refers to techné and technological art; the fusion of industrial technologies and materials with a more conventional approach unfolds as a painting-object, an installation or a moving painterly environment. Laser-cut steel, car paint, enamelled steel plate, projection, DMX-lights, speakers and coloured fans are the tools Nemes integrates in his practice in order to reinterpret the palette of painting. By doing so, the environment he creates becomes multisensory: its optical, acoustic and haptic content unfolds through the combined effects of light, colour, movement and sound.
The present exhibition features the project shown in Venice completed with a selection of works realised by the artist in the last decade, that can be considered as prefigurations, in their topics and technical formulations, of the works hosted this year by the Hungarian Pavilion at the Biennale.
National commisioner: Julia Fabényi
Curator: Róna Kopeczky
