Video: The ghostly hyperrealism of Istvan Sandorfi
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The works of this author are as illusory as they are real. He depicts very real people, but at times they become like ghosts. At first glance, many are sure that these are digital images, but in fact they are oil paintings. Meet Istvan Sandorfi and his hyperrealistic painting.
“There is nothing interesting in just recreating what we see on canvas,” says Hungarian author Istvan Sandorfi. And he not only "recreates", but constructs his own reality on the canvas. This is not surrealism - after all, everything depicted in Sandorfi's paintings could well exist in real life. However, this is not a copy of reality, which is typical for photorealism. This is a kind of illusory world, so close and distant at the same time.
The most attractive and striking thing about Istvan Sandorfi's paintings is their so-called “incompleteness”. Varying the saturation and intensity of color, the artist in places seems to "dissolve" the characters on the canvas, which gives rise to a ghostly effect and a feeling of unreality of what is happening.
Istvan Sandorfi was born in 1948 in Budapest (Hungary), and from the age of ten he lived in Paris. The artist began to paint in oils at the age of 12, and already at the age of 17 his first exhibition took place in a small Parisian gallery. For over 15 years, the author has painted huge self-portraits in an extremely aggressive and theatrical manner. As a result, his reputation in the artistic environment was highly controversial. Real recognition came to Istvan only in 1988, when the author began to seriously develop and improve his technique.
From 1994 to 2001, Istvan Sandorfi's paintings were exhibited exclusively at New York's Jane Kahan Gallery. Unfortunately, at present the artist is no longer among the living: he died in 2007. Istvan's friends have created sitededicated to his work - Friends Of Sandorfi Artworks.
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