Botond András Kiss
1992, Budapest
"For me, creating is a process of searching and finding. To sense, to glimpse something that I can aim to unfold. My works are the medium in which my creativity and my thinking can flow freely. I am engaged in the perception of the new, the unravelling of the content behind the simple, the effects of materials and surfaces, the accidental combinations of disparate elements. I attach great importance to the role of chance and consciously use it in my creative process.
The stones, the cultic structures built from them, the Japanese gardens and their carefully selected rocks are an important inspiration for me, fascinating in their simplicity and complexity. They carry timelessness and whimsy, deep meanings that build on each other. I am close to an Eastern vision that can contemplate different materials in themselves, that has great respect for the formative forces of nature and that strives for an essential conceptualisation. To achieve my pure formal language, I most often combine painting, graphic and photographic techniques. I always choose the means and means of realisation based on the message I want to convey, which is why my works are varied in appearance."
