roBOt.02 festival

L’astrazione è un’arma a doppio taglio. L’astrazione è la mente che corre libera, è creatività allo stato puro, è coraggio di comporre e scomporre; ma l’astrazione può anche diventare un vicolo cieco, se non capiamo che dobbiamo affrontarla, darle senso, forma, sentimento, fare in modo che sia sempre in nostro controllo. Questa la consapevolezza che David Szadauer, ungherese trapiantato a Berlino, vuole , fortissimamente vuole offrire a chiunque affronti il suo mondo.

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David Sauder, born in 1976 in Budapest, Hungary, is living and working in Berlin, Germany. "Serendipity means the effect by which one accidentaly discovers something fortunate, especially while looking for something entirely different. 'In the fields of observation favours only change the prepared mind' said Louis Pasteur. In this environment Serendipity is a flow of forms, generating themselves, generating a structure of the visual environment. With sense, with a goal and with a storyline. The abstration is a very convenient but aso very dangerous vehicle: we can play with it, but at some point we'll have to stop and think over what exactly we are doing, why we are doing it and whether it really is what we wanted to do. After a number of tries we will be able to step forward (or, in the worst case, backward) but our loops will be there, as we ourselves have created them. At the exit point we will need something positive, something optimistic, to have the feeling of some harmony - just for a brief moment. These are superfluous thoughts without any kind of concreteness or definition. My life performances cannot be explained in a more concrete way, as they are an experiment on how to connect lines and abstract shapes, on how to offer them to the perception with coloured but also black and white structures, on how to control the relation of optimistic and pessimistic ideas or impressions, and - as time goes by - on how the story will generate itself.
How can I enjoy the abstractions I've created and how I can step out and leave them behind. But just remember this one thing: 'All things are ready if our minds be so' (Shakespeare)"