Love, 2011 — mixed media on canvas, 140 × 110 cm.
One of the few single-word titles in the catalogue — and the most worn word in the language. Kende uses it without irony, without distance, without the protective layer of conceptual framing that contemporary art often wraps around uncomfortable directness.
The calligraphic gesture can carry this too. Not as illustration, not as decoration — but as the same raw material the word has always been made of: a mark, a trace, an act of writing that precedes meaning and survives it.
140 × 110 cm on canvas, 2011. The same year as No Reason and Paper on Wood — a period of quiet intensity in the studio, where the gesture was becoming increasingly distilled. The counterpart to Hate (2012), which shares the same format and the same refusal to explain.
