Botond Keresztesi
Where is Waldo (2017) / Real Photo (2017)
about
Botond Keresztesi collects images of personal objects to create new compositions. His paintings sometimes take an installative form. His work reflects on the past, the present, and the future, bringing together collective memories and the banality of the everyday life and the pop culture. His influences comprise post-modern aesthetics, such as computer graphics from the early 1990’s, as well as modernist inspirations such as Bauhaus, Bild-Architektur, geometric abstraction, and the commercial Hungarian posters from the 1940’s – his home country. He sees these artistic expressions as an exaggerated reality. Corporate imagery, stock photos, memes and subcultures that emerge from these aesthetics are also a source of inspiration for the artist. His latest work reflects on reality, questioning the digital representations of the present. In the spectrum of Post Digital Painting, the artist adopts an historical approach of things, remaining sceptic of the so-called realness.