Barnabás Földesi’s painting balances between tradition and contemporary visual culture. His works evoke the geometric aesthetics of the digital age through purely analog means — every layer, mask, and composition is created by hand, guided by chance and intuition.
Pop-cultural fragments, numbers, letters, and abstract gestures merge into a single visual island in the sea of contemporary noise. The lifebelt is the act of painting itself — a gesture of holding on, returning, and letting go.
“An Island and a Lifebelt” is a quiet self-portrait of painterly presence. Text by Renáta Gallai

The title of the exhibition was borrowed by the artist from Lajos Németh’s life interview with the same title. (Lajos Németh Life Interview 1986, MTA BTK, 2017)