way he made struck medals also shows. This approach has resulted in the recurrent use of various arts & crafts methods, especially at the beginning of the period in question.
At that time, Szlávics was preoccupied with the problems of movement - that is within the limits of his genre. "Making objects" drove him to create medals that lived their own lives albeit within the limits determined by the laws of nature. He conceived of a medal that would "respond", that would do something when picked up, resulting in a different contact between work and viewer than earlier; the work of art would relate in a novel way to the viewer and the recipient would have to become an active participant while the traditional features of the genre: intimacy, tactility, artistic quality and fine execution continued. When - in connection with a competition - measuring time began to interest him, this produced results. Visualizing time is an age-old idea, this time, however, the artist also solved the problem of actually measuring time. Measurement relies on periodic motion hence his first work adopted the principle of the hour-glass. Time (1995) is so to speak a simple hour-glass: picking it up sets it into motion, powdered glass begins to fall in the closed space, suggesting passing time and the transient nature of things. In Steeplechase (1995) the glass-sand running downwards in the space enclosed by Plexiglass now fills, now evades at random