I did not go to art school, I am an autodidact.
My path to sculpture led me through drawing and painting. The reason I started on this path was Tamás Frei’s interview with István Sándorfi. Seeing those crazy photorealistic paintings of his I wanted to get to the stage where I was able to paint in a way like that, I have more or less succeeded in over the years. The technical handling of the brush works, I can paint whatever shape I want, but what do I want? I realized, after all these years, I’ve only gotten to the gateway of art… And from here progress felt very slow.
Then, by chance, we happened to walk into an artist’s exhibition in Austria. He was making rusted metal sculptures out of scrap iron. Suddenly I was full of ideas. I realised what I was going to do with the locksmith’s workshop my father had suddenly left me and all the junk iron I had been regretting throwing away for ten years, what I was going to do with the skills he had taught me before he died when I was a little boy and it felt like a nuisance.
The rest of the story is here in front of you.