paintingEndre Rozsda — Surrealism as a research space
“Endre Rozsda ( 1913–1999, Paris) was a Hungarian-French painter. By the evidence of his writings, Endre Rozsda was mainly preoccupied with the problem of capturing time through the medium of painting. Time that can be experienced and explored by the subjective mind.
“For Rozsda, subjectivity represented more than the depiction of emotions, he somehow wanted to capture consciousness itself through painting — the process during which the human being creates his or her own world. In accordance with this, the painterly representation of time — depicting time past and time unfathomable — rather than the representation of perspectival space, became the other guiding principle of Rozsda’s painting. Rozsda’s painting “technique” — the nonfigurative structure of the paintings and their rotation during the working process, which eliminates the illusion of real space while mysteriously also retaining it (in many pieces and in its details) — also points in this direction of surreal space and time”
