Up-and-Coming Artist Ákos Ezer Paints Long-Limbed Men Eating Spaghetti and Palling Around in His Debut Paris Show—See It Here

What the gallery says: “The main
protagonists in the Hungarian artist’s work are men with elongated
limbs and bent postures, whose gestural movements evoke moments of
falling. The artist invites the viewer to reconstruct his view of
current social structures in his home country of Hungary and the
personal efforts of everyday life associated with them.”

Why it’s worth a look: This show—Galerie
Droste’s first solo exhibition of Hungarian artist Ákos Ezer
(born 1989)—also marks the reopening of its Paris showroom. And
what a way to revive the gallery’s activity. Ezer’s work draws on
the kind of packed compositions, elongated limbs, and off-the-wall
tableaux that have made Dana Schutz and Nicole Eisenman famous. But
he brings his own acid-tinged, humorous touch. The Munich-based
painter, who graduated from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts
in 2014, doesn’t use models or photographs as the basis of his
compositions, but instead draws on his own body and imagination. In
this exhibition, he has also made a foray into equally funky
ceramics.

What it looks like:

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