Istvan Sandorfi - Hungary/France
--Jane Kahan

The artist, Istvan Sandorfi was represented at Art Miami '96 by the Jane Kahan Galleries of New York.

"Sandorfi's paintings of grave beauty with almost mystical overtones escape from the conventional definitions of realism and surrealism into a unique hynagogic realm of visual and intellectual angst. The canvases are not even paintings in the usual sense, but moral depictions of the soul emitting its beautiful and terrifying music. They are our contemplations of ourselves as both subject and object simultaneously, as we change, melt, and disappear in the the space we call reality. Sandorfi is above all an artist who has succeeded in doing the artist's work. His still lifes and figures are not simply skillful and sensual paintings that beguile the eye, they are realities that permeate our very beings with sense and feeling, and haunt us forever after." -- Jane Kahan Galleries, New York

"Vivarine", 1994, oil on canvas, 63 3/4 x 38 1/8"

"Nature morte athematique", 1991, oil on canvas, 45 5/8 x 35"