Ádám Kokesch makes glossy coloured paintings with a special, so-called “hinterglas” technique, and also combines these images with other objects to construct Futurist installations and models, which perplex the viewer. These compositions are attached to a TV-stand or a photo tripod, or the wall. While these – sometimes illuminated, rounded, or at times geometrically shaped, three-dimensionally folded, inter-referential – objects and the abstract shapes presented on them have no apparently obvious function or meaning, they still clearly correspond to the generic idea of the high-tech object (omnipresent in our environment), shaped by consumer taste and the connected industrial design aesthetic that serves it. The objects referenced by way of form-based association – possibly a monitor, camera, dish aerial, solar panel, traffic sign – are mostly active information gathering or communication devices, interfaces, and Kokesch’ objects fall into this category as well, yet it is nearly impossible to exactly decode them. The artist offers no guide or key to the special database or code system he built, and in fact, it is likely that one of his aims is to create a sense of uncertainty in the viewer as to the nature of these objects: are these modernist icon paintings, a visual message constructed with individual icons, or perhaps design objects decorated with attractive colours and shapes, with no particular underlying meaning? K.Sz.