Opening: Tuesday, February 11, 2025, at 18:00
Venue: INDA Gallery (1061 Budapest, Király Street 34)
On view: February 12 – March 21, 2025
Opening remarks by: Róbert Horváth, philosopher of religion
Curator: Zsolt Kozma

Who am I? What is the world? What is reality? These questions, that is, the most essential questions about existence, are the foxcus of Martin Henrik's research. Martin consisers art as a spiritual practice and the works themselves as a transformation of the revealed knowledge into concrete objects.

It is from (or rather through) this cognitive process that the paintings and sculptures in the exhibition titled Hieron materialise – opening up or appear as the space of the process. The Hieron is a rectangular space, a symbol of all-encompassing of Consciousness. Originally, the term refers to the Greek temple, with arectangular space inside hosting the statue of the deity. The reality of the mystery of existence opens up here – the space itself becomes identical with the superspatial reality of the mystery of existence.

For the geometry of his paintings, Martin invented postulates to help preserve the spatial effect on the flat plane of the image. The sculptures are made of volcanic rock. By polishing the dark grey andesite, he achieves different tones. As a result, not only are the planes projected onto distinctly separated surfaces on the sculpture, but they differ in shade as well.

From a formal point of view, Martin considers the abstraction of by Kazimir Malevich, Josef Albers and Tony Robbin, among others, as points of reference, while in terms of purely intellectual stance he relates himself to Lajos Szelényi and Sándor Molnár.