ALBERT Ádám: System Analysis (KEMKI) I–IV, 2022–2023

4 enamel panels: 3 x 25 x 25 cm / each, 45 x 45 cm

The four enamel panels document selected steps from a typographical experiment involving the letters of “KEMKI”. On the largest panel, the KEMKI logotype—created by vertically rotating the letters of the acronym—functions as a word picture, or rather as an image, i.e., a symmetrical, geometric visual element. In the other, smaller-scale works, further actions—cropping, mirroring, distortion and layering—result in the dissolution of the original, letter-by-letter meaning, as the boundaries between letter/text/image become increasingly permeable. “The aim is no longer to make the letters legible, but to create new systems. Just as in a research report, what is presented is not the raw data itself, but their interpretation from a certain perspective.” (Ádám Albert) It is by abandoning the traditional, linear principle of reading, by breaking away from the usual process of perception, and by interpreting the letter-structures as puzzles, that we—detached from the constraints of interpretation—can avail ourselves to the patterns and ornamentation of these vertical-horizontal-diagonal lines.