Németh Dávid

Dávid Németh’s abstracted forms evoke the visual elements of the world of pancreation, capturing the elusive shimmer of masks and bodies. The aggression is real, the fight is theatre. The display of animal instincts reveals something of the grotesque undercurrents of human nature, for which the terms of psychology are too narrow. Only the vibrantly coloured latex costume of the delusion can be stretched to the point where the fighters can don it and step into the ring. Never mind that the slaps are not real: what matters is that someone wants to watch. The balloon-like image supports stretch beneath the images as mementos of consumption.

About the object

Galaxy 90 is a work from the exhibition series CATACHRESIS. It is an acrylic painting on mixed linen canvas. The shapes beneath are made from acrylic-based resin. The theme, catachresis (from the Greek κατάχρησις, meaning “misuse”), originally refers to a semantic error, the substitution of certain words, such as saying travesty instead of tragedy. In Latin, it is called abusio, the root of the English word abuse. In rhetorical terms, it is the use of inappropriate words to describe missing concepts—a necessary solution to make the unknown expressible. In literary terms, it is similar to metaphor, a form of strange figurative speech.