CAI is pleased to announce Chromatic Pulse, a solo exhibition by Aron Barath, featuring six new paintings on canvas. In these works, the Budapest-based artist continues his quest to create chromatic experiences—an inquiry into the seductive qualities of paint through color, matter, and light. The show marks the artist’s first solo exhibition in Belgium, and the third exhibition within the CAI Gallery program. The exhibition runs from September 28, 2025, until January 18, 2026, in Harelbeke, Belgium, and can be visited by the public by appointment only.

Barath is best known for his radiant abstract tableaux in which the artist explores a distinctive and personal format that allows him to set himself free, guided by the paint. His paintings can be described as blasts of color, bursting with energy, vitality, joy, and relief, never failing to have a direct impact—on the artist upon finishing the artwork, and on the viewer when beholding it. An instant hit of dopamine, accelerating our pulse, filling us with ardor, as exhilaration rushes from our chest to our mind. Over the past decade, his methodology has persistently employed a combination of two enthralling layers of paint. A base layer, often consisting of a flat plane or color gradient, and a gestural—one would almost say sensual—top layer. Barath plays with the grain of his underpainting versus the flatness of the picture plane. He suggests depth and movement through his linear or reflective gradients, versus the impenetrable flatness of opaque fields of color. He strolls from one side of the color wheel to the other, playing with the viscosity of his gestural motifs, interacting symbiotically with the base layer as it shines through in the transparent zones and disappears where the paint is brought together, resting thickly, as if it is in a temporal state of inactivity. The gesture moves vertically and horizontally, shifting from edge to edge, marked by pauses and peaks, producing a rhythm that recalls the human pulse—an emblem of vitality. Two-tone paintings are typically executed in quasi-complementary colors for maximum effect, as is the case with his triadic color palette when using three tones to create maximum impact, pushing the experience of pigment and radiance in painting to new heights where the painting itself almost starts to feel otherworldly, as if digital, before anchoring in reality and the analog once more through the luscious use of texture, paint splashes, and liquid movement.

Aron Barath was born in 1980 in Novi Sad, Serbia (former Yugoslavia), and lives and works in Budapest, Hungary. At the age of 21, he received the prestigious Lengyel Lajos Prize in Hungary. Notable exhibitions include solo presentations at Circle Culture Gallery (2025) in Berlin, Germany; Galleri Urbane (2023) in Dallas, the United States of America; Bardoni Gallery (2015) in Budapest, Hungary; among others. The artist has participated in various international group exhibitions, including 44309/Gallery in Dortmund, Germany; Circle Culture Gallery in Baden, Austria; CAI Gallery in Kortrijk, Belgium; the Office Gallery in Miami, the United States of America; Promocyjna Gallery in Warsaw, Poland; and at institutional venues such as Goethe-Institut in Budapest, Hungary; and Mucsarnok Kunsthalle in Budapest, Hungary. Aron Barath joined the CAI Gallery program in 2021.