… Sayler's art is based on both chance and precisions. It is located in elementals between line, surface and body, not only in the framework of limited pictures and objects, but also in situations related to space in which signs condense seemingly at random to a space-infringing installation. Exploiting the interrelationship of chance and regularity, he links the rational with the emotional. This emphatically emotional stance is pathbreaking; it opposes the one-sided, rationalist methods of the Concrete Art of recent decades, where so much is simply variation and duplication within limited contexts. …


Paul Brand
Oslo, 1998
Monograph "Diet Sayler, 1999