What happens when fingers stop their usual work of touching and pointing, and become hooks for strings instead? Or when shower curtain rings line up side-by-side atop a head to form a curly wig—or when one ring hangs still in the middle of a face, taking the place of the human eye?

I create pictures using a method that I call "material directivity". A realistic narrative painting is created using the materials that I am painting. So, for example, if I was painting a table in an interior, I would paint the wall of the room with plaster, and the table with wood putty.

Art+Text Budapest presents a solo exhibition on one of the greatest masters of metaphysical Hungarian painting, Tamás Soós (1955). Præfiguratio, the gallery’s first exhibit dedicated to Soós, features selected works from the artist’s oeuvre spanning over four decades and blends familiar themes with hitherto unseen early works, large-scale oil paintings with conceptual photographs as well as sculptures realised in various materials.

Dimora Artica presents Body Ache, an exhibition by Andrea Barbagallo. The show it’s focused on the obsessive reproduction of the human body made through the use of technology.

Group show featuring Szilvia Bolla, Dániel Helyes, Zsófia Jauernik, Tamás Pál and Renáta Pintérová at the Eleven Blokk in Budapest.