Charles Sirato

Charles Sirato (26 January 1905, in Újvidék – 1 January 1980, in Budapest) was a Hungarian poet, art theorist, and translator. He most famously authored the Dimensionist manifesto.

Charles Sirato
Born	(1905-01-26)26 January 1905 Újvidék, Serbia
Died	1 January 1980(1980-01-01) (aged 74–75) Budapest, Hungary
Occupation	Poet art theorist translator
Nationality	Hungarian

Life

Dimensionist manifesto

In 1936 in Paris, Charles Tamkó Sirató published his Manifeste Dimensioniste, which described how

the Dimensionist tendency has led to:

1. Literature leaving the line and entering the plane.
2. Painting leaving the plane and entering space.
3. Sculpture stepping out of closed, immobile forms.
4. …The artistic conquest of four-dimensional space, which to date has been completely art-free.

The manifesto was signed by many prominent modern artists worldwide. Yervand Kochar, Hans Arp, Francis Picabia, Kandinsky, Robert Delaunay and Marcel Duchamp amongst others added their names in Paris, then a short while later it was endorsed by artists abroad including László Moholy-Nagy, Joan Miró, David Kakabadze, Alexander Calder, and Ben Nicholson.

List of works

Literature

• Manifeste Dimensioniste, 1936
• Az Élet tavaszán, 1921
• Le Planisme, 1936
• Kiáltás, 1942
• A három űrsziget, 1969
• A Vízöntő-kor hajnalán, 1969
• Tengereczki Pál, 1970
• A hegedű vőlegénye, 1971
• Pinty és Ponty, 1972
• Kozmogrammok, 1975
• Tengereczki hazaszáll, 1975
• Szélkiáltó, 1977
• Jövőbúvárok, 1980
• Összegyűjtött versei I., 1993