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All imaginable is real and not all realities are imaginable.
Tibor Babos — Artist and Author of Constructive Unrealism
CONSTRUCTIVE UNREALISM
THE PHILOSOPHY
At the core of Constructive Unrealism lies a dialectic:
“All imaginable is real — and not all realities are imaginable.”
The first clause affirms that human imagination has ontological power — everything from cathedrals to codes, revolutions to regimes, once began as thought.
The second reveals our limits — that there are truths, forces, and futures which no mind can yet comprehend.
The movement investigates this rift between what can be conceived and what cannot, drawing on philosophy, science, and art to trace the origins, consequences, and evolution of ideas.
It is a system of inquiry that is as rigorous as it is poetic.
THE CREDO
“The discovery of the infinite unknown
and the pursuit of infinite discovery.”
Constructive Unrealism holds that the unknown is not a void —
it is a frontier.
It invites its thinkers and creators not to interpret the world, but to structure what has never existed before.
The artist becomes an architect of new realities.
RESEARCH DOMAINS
Constructive Unrealism engages with questions that remain unresolved across physics, biology, and philosophy — concepts widely known, yet still fundamentally misunderstood.
Its inquiry stretches across:
material, space, time, energy, force, and existence
as physical concepts;
life and humanity
as biological concepts;
the soul, thought, action, and consequence
as philosophical dimensions.
We continue to ask what even science cannot yet answer:
What is the true origin and extent of matter?
How did space emerge, and what lies beyond its visible bounds?
What exactly is time — and is it linear, circular, or illusory?
Where does energy come from, and how does it change form?
What is force, and what governs its direction?
What is existence — and what follows it?
What does it mean to be human?
What is the soul, if it exists?
How do thoughts arise, and how do they shape the world?
ORIGINS
Constructive Unrealism was born from tension — between government logic and spiritual abstraction, between national duty and artistic solitude.
Its founder, Tibor Babos, was both a colonel and a philosopher. A national security advisor and a secret painter.
The movement began as a private refuge, a counterbalance to the machinery of the state. But it soon evolved into something larger: a method of thinking, seeing, and building.
This movement dwells in that space between — a structure for enduring mystery.
“There are two things we will never completely understand: the universe and ourselves. All attainable science lies between these two, and this is precisely why we cannot find complete peace in science. Every serious thought leads us to question the relationship of our object of inquiry to the whole and to ourselves, and thus all our science ends in doubt or faith.”
József Eötvös (1813–1871), Hungarian scientist
EARLY ICONS
