The artwork features the word "DOCENT" in a simple and minimalist design, using a bold, sans-serif font against a white background. The composition is clean and symmetrical, with the letters equally spaced and centered. The overall aesthetic conveys a sense of clarity, directness, and neutrality, characteristic of conceptual art. The intention behind this piece may be to prompt the viewer to reflect on the role of the docent or art guide, and the importance of their function in presenting and interpreting works of art within the museum context. ...
Botond Keresztesi’s art centers on a vibrant recombination of painting, drawing, and site-specific installation to craft surreal, fragmented dreamscapes. He layers references from art history, pop culture, digital imagery, and everyday visuals—like rave flyers or stock photos—into hallucinatory landscapes that collapse time, styles, and symbols.
His technique blends airbrush and traditional brushwork, creating richly textured canvases that resonate with both nostalgia and vibrant futurism. Keresztesi's works evoke "technosecession hybrids," where Art Nouveau curves merge with cybernetic forms—transformers, bionic limbs, antique sculpture—dissolving boundaries between past, present, and speculative future.
Through this chaotic yet democratic imagery, he constructs painterly “flea markets,” where Hieronymus Bosch collides with smartphones, lava lamps, and mythic creatures—all existing without hierarchy. His recent series featuring symbolic “gatekeeper” figures map cardinal directions—east, west, north, south—suggesting mystical guides through unknown physical and conceptual landscapes.
Keresztesi’s work embodies a post-digital visual language that challenges conventional narrative and identity by dissolving hierarchies, blending analog and digital motifs, and imagining new transitional spaces where reality, memory, and the dreamlike converge. ...
