Sándor Bíró
Painter
is a true painter. He could not imagine for himself any other medium or better occupation than painting. For he has an elemental attraction to the painting as a material entity and to painting as a physical and spiritual creative process. (…)
His method of creation suits well his strongly abstracted, pantheistic landscapes, which strive to capture the meanings carried by the landscape—meanings that cannot be expressed in words, but rather take shape as moods. It is characteristic of him that he does not work from photographs, but paints on the basis of drawings made on site over a long period, as well as his impressions, memories, and moods. He often prepares color sketches in watercolor on paper, in which he constructs in advance the color and light accents of the painting. (…)
In Bíró Sándor’s landscapes, transient, impressionistic phenomena almost disappear, while the general and the permanent come to the fore. His fragments of landscape attempt to grasp the Whole—even when, within these landscapes marked by the presence of humanity, there is a single sign pointing to absence and rupture: a clearing that tears a wound into the endless fabric of the forest.
Paintings
