Double Q Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new paintings by Hungarian artist Botond Keresztesi (b. 1987, Târgu Mureș, Romania), his first with the gallery. For the title of his debut Hong Kong exhibition, Keresztesi drew on a historical reference – an artwork of the same name (The Garden of the Magician) painted by one of Hungary’s most significant artists, Lajos Gulácsy, between 1906 and 1907.

Botond Keresztesi is one of the most distinctive painters of the post-digital era in Eastern Europe, and as a member of Generation Y, pioneered an innovative and ambitious way of thinking about painting. Like his contemporaries, he has been exposed since childhood to the determinative visual world of video games and electronic devices. His artistic explorations are informed by this defining experience and are directed towards the blurred nature of the boundaries between the digital and analogue worlds as well as the continuous dialogue between these two distinct spheres of reality.

Gallery address: 68 Lok Ku Road, Sheung Wan