Silard Isaak
1977 Herceglak
He was born 1977 in Herceglak, Croatia. From 1988 to 2004 he studied theology at the Sellye Janos University in Komàrom, Slovakie. He lives and works in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
Exhibitions:
2016 Feinkunst-Krüger Gallery (Hamburg)
2016 Gerhard Hofland Gallery (Amsterdam)
2015 Surgo Studio (Berlin)
2015 Cape Town Art Fair
2015 Godot Gallery (Budapest)
2010 Littmann Kulturprojekte (Basel)
2002 Mission Art Gallery (Budapest)
"Orsolya Karafiáth: It is on your shelf – visibly thoroughly read and with plenty of markings – the book called The Life of the Saints. You have said once that as long as there are saints you paint them. But you don’t paint everyone. On what basis do you make your selection?
Isaak Silard: Whoever comes in a dream, or which I receive as a dream, that is the saint I paint. Dreams can be influenced. If, for instance, I read about the life of a peculiar saint before falling asleep, it is highly probable that I’ll dream about him. But it is not a hundred per cent. I have two types of dreams. In one type there is an action, in which I myself participate. In this case, I am in the dream, everything is happening to me. One of my water-lily paintings appeared to me in a way like I was lying underneath the water, and the water-lilies were floating above me. In the other, the picture hangs somewhere in a house, on one of the walls, and I watch this finished picture. That is why I don’t have any picture hung on the walls where I live, because it would disturb me. I have recurring dreams as well. In one of those it’s like fingers coming and trying to catch me or touch me. These fingers are several feet long, and I am small. It is also alarming when a person is still alive and I see them in my dream as dead. What could this all mean? I don’t try to resolve them. I might as well understand. After the resolution there are no more pictures, I believe." Extract from interview: Orsolya Karafiáth & Isaak Silard, 2009
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Am Julier
Mixed media, collage with gold foil & printed acrylic glass panels
Verso -signed & numbered
>> This artwork is piece no. 1 of 25
Additionally included is a copy of Isaak Silard's artist book “Poems of Orsolya Karafiáth”, published by Panderma Verlag, 2009 Budapest, including a handsigned artist card addressed to the artist Johannes Grützke with the text: "Schöne Grüße von Carl Lazlo, Silard S. Issak".
Artist frame - custom made
Size 84 x 64 cm
Provenance | Gallery Germany, Private Collection Denmark
Differential taxation according to § 25a UStG. No taxes included. | Differenzbesteuerung nach § 25a UStG. Kunstgegenstände und Sammlungsstücke, Sonderregelung.
