For me, art and artistic activity — the act of creation — are also a kind of historical and social relationship, a distillation, and the consequence and result of a certain substance. Artistic freedom is always an indispensable goal, and as such, it serves as a measure of the prevailing social and political freedom; at the same time, it can function as a sensitive sensory system.
Abstraction, as both an aesthetic and art-philosophical concept and practice, is important to me because it allows for the greatest degree of freedom of expression. The measure of freedom, in terms of the essence of spiritual energy, is immaterial, yet it is capable of faithfully preserving an era, an epoch, or a slice of time—much like a fossil or a living organism preserved in amber for hundreds of years.
In our modern and postmodern, individualistic, alienated, pragmatic, and progressive-minded world—held captive by the media and amidst the constant, all-pervasive flood of images that engulfs us — I hope that my works will become contemplative, meditative islands and, like oases, have a refreshing effect on the viewer in this ‘sea of images.’
Sándor Sipos