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Rozsda Endre - Symbol airtight - 1974

Endre Rozsda, although troubled by a long life in despair, was unable to participate along with the major artists' 900 to the revolution of modern art. He went through the suicide of his father, the most severe poverty, war, anti-Semitic purges of the Nazis, the Stalinist censorship, segregation in Hungary (the country of birth), although this has kept the fire of his brimming creativity, and this just pushed it as a bold and clandestine traveler to freedom .. Like a moth attracted by the creative lighthouse was then in Paris, several times and had to retrace his steps, but not discouraged continued to force the hand of an unpleasant fate. Finally won the vibrant freedom of art and an intimate inner satisfaction, as shown in his extraordinary work.

In art, he dreamed of a world where you can walk back and forth on the "time dimension", and in fact went beyond their time, as every artist should do. In fact, the temporal dimension, as well as the esprit of an era, is relative and illusory, and the artist should strive to seek and express the ever-present. Rozsda felt "a contemporary of ancient events, because he had reached the world of the matrix, breaking the vision in tiny fragments to recover a vision not prosaic, but esoterically dilated throughout. Contemplating his painting shows me precisely the myth of Osiris: Divinity dismembered mundane in appearance and reconnect the investigation to be regenerated fragments. Therefore, as the great artists, Rozsda sought the baptism of Chaos, striving to create "a cloudy surface on which to start looking." This has broken his visions in minute detail, tracking, like a puzzle, which dovetailed with the spiritual.

In my opinion his work, was rather on the edge of the great celebrations of Art, is more contemporary than many other currently infest the tunnels, as yet effective means to respond with a burning question about the spiritual Contemporary Art tends to avoid. But I still dream that every artist himself and deepen its work, until he can say with Rozsda "illuminating objects and people. People sleep, wake the dead."