The exhibition Decentralized games brings together two essential artists who shaped the visual modernity of Timișoara in the 1960s: Roman Cotoșman and Molnár Zoltán.

Though distinct in medium and expression, their practices converge within a shared territory of systemic thinking and formal order, where geometric discipline becomes a means of exploring visual freedom. These themes defined not only their individual trajectories but also the broader artistic collective of Timișoara during the 1960s and 1970s, one of the most coherent and representative movements in postwar Romanian art.

Both artists took part in May 1968 in the exhibition held at Sala Kalinderu in Bucharest, which would go on to change the course of Romanian art history. Entitled 5 young artists from Timișoara, it was the first event in Romania dedicated to abstract-constructivist art, featuring works by Roman Cotoșman, Molnár Zoltán, Ștefan Bertalan, Constantin Flondor, and Diet Sayler. Against the backdrop of the Prague Spring and Romania’s brief liberalization period, the exhibition introduced a radically new artistic language that rejected the constraints of socialist realism and affirmed the autonomy of form and visual thought.