Acrylic and oil on canvas, various sizes, 2026
THE „DIAGRAM“ series explores historical diagrams (for example, to measure the sun’s movement, determine the spring and fall equinoxes, or record the basics for tuning a musical instrument as a rule-based geometric drawing), translating them into abstract paintings and installations. It examines the transmission of knowledge in the analog world and the approaches of that era to creating models for explaining the world. Building on these historical visual languages, the works also address a fundamental question regarding the relationship between system and artistic freedom. The mathematician and diagram theorist Max Brill understood the diagram as a form of unambiguous order: a visual tool that follows rules, structures information, and is designed for repeatability. Precisely for this reason, the thesis goes, a diagram cannot be art—for art eludes fixed schemas, while the diagram remains bound to a functional logic.
The works engage with this boundary. They adopt the rigor of geometric constructions without submitting to their unambiguity. The regularity remains visible, yet within this order, shifts, condensations, and depth emerge. Thus, the diagram is not abolished here, but transformed: from an instrument of explanation into an object of the imagination.
