KOSMOS
by Maté
HAY
Maté Hay presents us with a collection of conceptual installations which
draw the viewer into the centre enabling him to reach their very heart.
The viewer cannot but wonder as to the nature of what he sees and in doing
so is guided towards a personal understanding of the work.
It is in this that the art lies - an art expanded upon by its creator,
Maté Hay, in what he calls his theory on " The Cosmos and its four dimensional
truth ".
" As the moon turns around the Earth, so the Earth turns around the Sun.
As a result, each single atom is part of an infinite amount of circular
movements in the microcosmos of the human body.
The discovery of the fourth dimension contained in the infinately large
or small requires an ability to view the world beyond the realm of common
sense. In order to work on a spiritual level, the artist must accept that
a three dimensional vision is not enough and be drawn in by the paradoxes
that surface as he moves towards an appreciation of infinity.
From behind the mask of what he knows and feels, the artist receives a
fleeting vision of the fourth dimension as it develops in his spiritual
universe. Led by his intuition, he succeeds in reaching this dimension
beyond matter although it remains a slow and complex process. Once the
vision is released and works its way through the support, it is then that
the door opens onto the fourth dimension.
In order to transcend one's common sense, all that is familiar must be
abandoned so that the spirit becomes the guiding factor. The unity and
integration of a spiritual insight is helped by the introduction into
our visual perception of the circular motion controlling all life in our
Universe. Finally, on a pictorial level, our knowledge of what is three-dimensional
is reduced and becomes secondary. This destabilizing effect frees the
mind which can then let its intuition take control.
The fourth dimension so becomes apparent. The presence of a slow circular
movement in the painting amplifies the process of entering into this dimension.
By making the viewer turn slowly in the opposite direction to that suggested
in the painting, a second circular movement is created. This enables the
viewer to release himself of all he knows and so let himself be guided
towards this particular spiritual perception.
The project involves the realization of a giant circular painting 20 metres
in diametre (circumference : 62.83m and surface area : 188.5m˛).
The viewer is to stand at the centre of a round platform. As the painting
turns clockwise, so the platform turns in the other direction.
The double rotation results in the direct perception of the fourth dimension
. The viewer is now able to contemplate his own place within the atoms
and the Universe. "
Maté Hay