Akos Ezer Pécs, Hungría, b. 1989
On the way home, 2023
Oil on canvas
170 x 200 cm
66 7/8 x 78 3/4 in
66 7/8 x 78 3/4 in
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In order to fit within the frame, the young man has been forced to contort his body. Dressed for an excursion and painted in vivid colors, he nonetheless conveys an intense sense of unease, heightened by the fallen objects around him. The painting has a typographic quality.
Marked by contemporary or pop references, Akos Ezer’s figures display limbs so elongated and intertwined that they ultimately come to occupy the entire surface of his paintings. Ezer’s work offers an approach to the lives of his contemporaries through characters that seem to have absorbed the defining traits of their time, set within an uncanny situation that produces a humorous effect.