Addiction Tamás Komoróczky

Working in many media and artistic genres, Tamás Komoróczky’s work is characterised by diversity. In terms of its colours and approach, Addiction evokes the world of pop art. Black-and-white cut-out faces are shown against a colourful collage background and are repeated and distorted to generate the illusion of movement. The artist places images of his earlier work, as well as self-portraits and portraits of other artists and figures in artistic life (including Hajnal Németh, Csaba Uglár, and Miklós Peternák, among others), alongside the figure of Matthew Barney from the film Cremaster 5, which was partly shot in Budapest in 1997. The swirl of repeated faces against the colourful background, the unreal character of Matthew Barney, as well the image of an explosion evoke the way in which mind-altering substances are depicted in pop culture.

Linda Tarr