SI-LA-GI

SI-LA-GI is a Hungarian-Swedish artist who works with concept art and Buddism-related art.
Biography
SI-LA-GI was born in Tokaj, Hungary on 17 September 1949 and emigrated via Italy to Sweden in 1966.
There he studied painting at the Academy of Fine Art and later continued his studies at the University of Stockholm (science of visual arts). In the meantime he also worked with experimental film and photography in the 1960s and from 1973 also with videos. In the 1970s he pioneered the use of video for installation art. At the end of the 1970s he was co-founder of the Video Nu Studio in Stockholm which gave artists the opportunity to create experimental arts. In his art he uses diverse media, including photography, video, sculpture and installation art. His works are concept and philosophy-based investigations of impermanence, life and death, and individual opportunities.
In 1980-1986 SI-LA-GI taught art video and painting in Stockholm. He has traveled widely throughout the United States, Africa and Asia, where he developed his interest in Buddhism. His martial arts studies and long Buddhist retreats have had a great influence on his concept-based art.
The art critic and philosopher Pierre Restany said of SI-LA-GI that:

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