WASTE – 2021

site-specific Installation (paintings objects, plastic waste)

Runtime Error – Solo Exhibition – Contemporary Labor – Miskolc Gallery – 2021

In addition to the medium of the city, Kristóf is also occupied with the role of the natural environment in the modern world and its changes. Landscapes are transforming. The human footprint is so united with the natural environment that “untouched area” has become a separate concept, and human presence can be felt everywhere. The burningly pressing problems of pollution and unmanageable waste production are forcing humanity to redesign, where care must become the norm instead of one-time convenience.

This line of thought appears in KristofLab’s PolyMER series. Classical paintings in their style evoke the era of “plein-air” painting, when the painter could still retreat into untouched nature. However, KristofLab’s waste applications dispel the former idyll, cover the image, frustrate and confuse. While the undisturbed landscape, arranged in the plane of the canvas, is the embodiment of an abstract, distant world, the trash used in the works erupt from the two dimensions and are placed in the space of reality. In the installation belonging to the PolyMER series, nature is merely presented as an artificially preserved image, a once documented data that tries to give the appearance of reality. In the work criticizing the tendencies and possibilities of the present and at the same time of the future, nature is present only as a mild appearance, a semi-unrecognizable reflection.

Luca Cserhalmi – esthete

ERROR exhibition – Godot Labor – 2021

ERROR exhibition – Godot Labor – 2021