art of <<Hedvig Sebestyén>>
is a wonderful trip in some kind of surreal but at the same time
tangible world. On every piece you can find the explosions of colors and
meanings. Love.
More works you'll find on Sebestyén facebook page https://www.facebook.com/SebestyenHajdiArt
1. where are you from?
I
am from Budapest that is the hectic and two-faced capital of Hungary, a
small and quite chaotic little country in Middle Eastern Europe with a
confusing and incomprehensible political system. We are most likely
famous for our strong and delicious wines and spirits, our non existing
social network and high suicide rate as well as our revolutions in the
past and our partake in WW2 on the wrong side. Historians say we origin
from the East and living in a ring of Slavic and Germanic peoples we
have never been able to find our place. Might be like this. First image
that comes to my mind is that Hungary is like a hysterical, aging but
lovable bitch, which is amazing in its own way.
2. do you use any particular tools/materials/methods during the working process?
Actually
I use everything traditional like pen, pencil, acrylic, water colors,
oils, crayons etc. and I occasionally mix all these with some more
personal materials, like blood, saliva, wine, and industrial paints,
brick and metal pieces, plants and glues when I make a picture. I
sometimes “hide” different things behind the layers of paint, such as
scratches and cuts, screws, nails and newspaper cuttings as well as I
touch the canvas or paper with my different body parts to “make it
mine”. The reason for all this is that art for me is like making love
should be; it must be personal, passionate, wholehearted, exciting,
irregular and spontaneous as long as the partners – in these cases me
and the pictures – agree on that but the picture and I both have to keep
secrets from each other. I very often apply the paint with my fingers
and instead of water I spit on the canvas to mix the colors. In the
future I am planning to learn new techniques, like body painting and
tattoo as nothing is more intimate and sacral than using another
person’s skin.
3. how is your working process?
My working
procedure – talking about sacral – usually starts with a special
mindset. I just feel that “something” wants to be born. I simply sit
down/lie down/ stand up and start with a chosen technique that fits my
mood. Halfway through the process a poem or some words are formed in my
mind. I often cry or laugh or shout and sing or dance while drawing.
Time disappears and by the end of the process I know what the topic or
title would be and I realize what I wanted to express. To be honest this
whole procedure is still mysterious for me. Since my early teens it has
been like this. I usually work fast. It is exceptionally rare that I
work on the same thing for two days or more. One more thing, I take my
dreams very seriously. I try to remember every one of them as they serve
as excellent trigger points and sources of inspiration for my artworks.
4. what do you think about the art market nowadays?
I have a
really cynical approach towards art market. To be honest I think art
cannot be a job or a business. What I experience these days is that with
the widespread of Internet traditional galleries will be in serious
trouble. The same applies to music and performing arts. The original
model – that is take a talented person and form a star then sell his/her
works for enormous amounts of money and ignore all the other talents –
simply has to die out like dinosaurs. Art market is outdated as people
learn about artistic processes from first hand. There are loads of very
talented people out there who should get compensation for their art
activity but I rather believe in barter. I give my pictures as presents
to where “they are loved”. If they give something in return, I say thank
you. Of course “applied art, commission” is something different.
5. do you exhibit your works? how do you place yourself in actual art context?
Yes,
it happens that I exhibit my works but to be honest I get much more
feedback when I post them in art groups. Exhibition is a symbol of
opening or closing a new artistic period and also important that viewers
can “touch” and be “touched” by the originals and party with the
artist. I do not wish to place myself in the actual art context as it
would mean I put my art into a category and I would never do that to any
feeling creature on earth.
6. is there a common idea that go across all your works?
Yes,
I do have some central ideas that I maniacally try to digest and work
with. Basically that is the fact that we were all born here in this
amazingly beautiful prison planet where we struggle to find the right
way or we give up or we simply sell our souls. I am obsessed with the
idea that there is something beyond or over this world that gives us the
freedom of choice. As we have to serve our sentence and learn from it.
Who knows we might come back here several times to understand our
lesson. Hence human relations and with all creatures around us are
always returning in my works as well as emotions and spiritual feelings.
As we “cannot wash our faces alone in ourselves”. I try to express that
struggling and pain and death are strongly linked to our human
existence. That can be a reason why people say I am either maniac or
depressed. Actually this can be true.
in our journey into outsider art we'll stop in the world of Silvio Codazzi. his ironic works a bit scary a bit funny are great comment to the reality around us. terrific
1. where are you from?
continuing with our little visual festival we pass across the art of XXII Outsider art/Brut art. as the name says itself it's about wonderful outsider expression, one of my favorite form of art as you could probably understood from this blog. enjoy the interview and more works of XXII here. 
1. where are you from?
3. what do you think about the art market nowadays?
the fabulous art of Greg Bromley. full of colors from inner world. I invite you to read this wonderful interview and check more works of Greg here. such surreal as outsider. dig it! 
I am working half digital/half analog. All my works are based on visible structure/pattern in combination with special aspects of human perception as pareidolia or serendipity.
Originally from Massachusetts U.S.A raised
by a working class family and lived in a poor neighborhood. Stuck around
the New England area with my wife till 2008 and moved to North
Carolina. Currently residing in a trailer park surrounded by degenerate
swine. 
