Lonovics Zoltán
Zoltán Lonovics has been a long prominent figure in the creative industry. During his studies at MOME, he became the Art Director of *the Room* magazine, a bilingual, biannual publication focusing on fashion and contemporary arts, distributed in major European cities as well as New York. The magazine was widely praised for its modern perspective, blending smart articles with “eyecandy” visuals. He designed the exhibition identities and catalogues for several exhibitions at the Kunsthalle, including the contemporary art collection *Na mi van? What’s up?* in the late 2000s. Later, he created his own illustrated character, Gilbert, through whom he guided the youngest generation through various art historical periods, movements, material culture, and contemporary trends. He teaches fashion photography and professional presentation at two universities, and he is also the Art Director of the Móra Publishing House. He is responsible for preserving the visual value of these works, ensuring that illustrations by artists like János Kass, László Réber, Gyula Hincz, and Károly Reich are published in their original form. He has been a jury member of the Budapest Illustration Festival for six years, selecting the most progressive works by young illustrators. He also works continuously as an autonomous fine artist. By distorting the almond shape in a flat, constructive manner, he creates a hybrid of figuration and abstraction, thematizing by directly incorporating graphic glitches from Adobe programs of the late 1990s. The twist is that he does all this through the medium of embroidery, using recycled upholstery fabrics and vintage materials. For him, textile is a limitless medium. In his third fine art series, embroidery, typically considered a craft technique, is juxtaposed with digital imagery and deliberately placed glitches, much like how new rave contrasts with portraiture, figuration, and constructivism. This combination appears in the embroidered lines and shapes, forming a score-like visual composition.
About the objects
Warrior
His figurative portraits open up micro and macro perspectives on the border between abstraction and figurativity. The striking disorder of the forms, which can be traced back to a digital error, or glitch, also has an impact on their deeper meanings. The transformation of a single error in digital fields into an aesthetic format brings with it the significance of imperfection and even of the valorisation of uniqueness.
Main motif: glitch, various digital errors appearing everywhere as decorative elements.
Bird
In addition to anthropomorphic human details, animal motifs, ancient bird silhouettes, butterfly shapes appear.The excitement of error runs through the images, bringing into focus their specificity and uniqueness. The mix of colours and motifs that appear on the bird-like figures are interconnected in a variety of ways and with limitless possibilities to complement and build their own visual worlds as an organic whole.
Waves
Delving into the small details of the waal textile pictures, one can discover the kind of unity and difference that is implied by the close-up perspective and the separate, distant perspective, the so-called helicopter view, seen from above. In addition to impressive works of 200 x 140 cm, they will also be making smaller works of 100 x 100 cm, indicating the importance of difference and the ever-present possibility of a change of scale. The colorfulness of the holographic surfaces and the excitement of the embroideries in each work encourage acceptance of our diverse world.
