Károly Keserü

Károly Keserü lives and works in Hungary. From 1995 to 1999 he studied in Melbourne at Swinburne University and the Victorian College of Arts, from 2000 to 2004 at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design in London.

If you want to recognize a pictorial reality in Keserü’s abstract paper works, then this usually consists of tiny particles.There are thousands upon thousands of them on one sheet, together they form a grid, the composition of which is reduced to horizontal and vertical lines. Accordingly, Károly Keserü reduces the complexity of the visible to a few pictorial elements, on the one hand, to make them visible in the sum of all possibilities on the other. In the works of his “XXth Century Series”, for example, the artist refers to phenomena in quantum physics, computer science, and more recent nanotechnology as well as to the artistic influences in his work, which range from Bauhaus to Mark Rothko to Bridget Riley.