Ludwig Museum’s collection includes three works by the artist. The earliest work was made in Poland – GÉMES studied graphic art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw – and represents a stylistic transition between lithography and photomontage. Transpositional Exercises is also unique because the artist later put an end to his early experimental period (many of his works were destroyed). The young artist, who had previously flirted with pop art,mainly enlarged everyday objects (lipstick, brushes) and elevated them into strange, spaceless compositions, but the works show a quasi-reality in which the central motif, a car with a boot, seems to be seen through a blurred membrane or a light filter (the title can be seen as ironically funny, but also as a kind of preparation for a journey, since Gemes returned to Hungary shortly afterwards).