Istvan Sandorfi

I did not know his works until I saw a beautiful girl wrapped in a blanket that gradually fades, while looking towards the high.

I try to figure out who is the author and finally I come across a site that mentions his name: Istvan Sandorfi Hungarian-born painter moved with his family at an early age, first in Germany and then in France in Paris where he attended École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts.

Born in 1948 and died in 2007 he belongs to the current hyper-realistic Hungarian.

“I never had the impression that I really knew how to paint, not in the past, not now. If you paint, you are simply never satisfied.” ~ István Sándorfi

Already at 17 He learned painting as self-taught and got his first solo exhibition, but the lack of success forced him to attend more traditional channels and graduate from prestigious academies.

During the time worked as a portrait painter on commission and as an advertising illustrator until 73 ’ year of his most important international.

The ’hyperrealism, as the name suggests, is a painting technique that tends to reproduce photographic images more faithful as possible.

The work is first studied as a photographic set then reproduced as photography, maximized, and then redrawn with a manic attention rather than to small details (light, imperfections of the subject).

The artist Istvan Sandorfi arises between hyperrealism and surrealism as it creates Hyper-paintings “unfinished”, his models disappear into the folds of the cloth that wrapped sleep, or in the paint flows. The result is that models are imperfect, unfinished, and more to resemble Ethereal presences, dreamy ghosts in a well-defined space as painting theatrical scenery.