Art statement
My basic artistic position, which can be classified as geometric, concrete, stems from the spirit of the Concrete Manifest (1930) to the metaart.
My work focuses on the design of elementary basic forms using high contemporary technology.
I work with operations based on the method of concrete art. My work is a capture of the equilibrium of concrete physical, colour and formal processes in plane and space. I seek the state where matter and form become one. My sculptures and reliefs, as the result of internal material tensions arising from minimal external influences, are in fact self-constructing.
The visual tension of material, form and colour contrasts is the result of minimal planar and spatial displacements, a system of which has led me to create my own formal language.
Deconstructions of the formal order thus reduced respond in their openness to events in their surroundings, transcending the boundaries of the concrete visual order in their meaningfulness.
The works of art represent a specific geometric art movement and can be interpreted according to the principles set out therein.
The formative research of abstract elementary visual forms and colours led to an understanding of the laws of visual language, through which the structural composition of forms acquired a new personal visual meta-architecture and thus a new cultural meaning.
The system of forms possessed was able to use the synergies of styles across the centuries to create works that reflected the age.
The convergence of the physical and digital worlds is reinforced by the inherently material form and its virtual representation.
The real, physical surface constancy and variability of works created along concrete artistic principles, the simultaneous perception of order and chaos, has a virtual and intellectual impact.
The sensory and rational experience of the aesthetic effects of the work can contribute to the development of critical thinking necessary for understanding our times.
József Zalavári 2024