Born in Hungary 22nd July 1964, has lived since 1987 in Vienna, Austria. Beate studied at the High School of Fine and Applied Arts, Budapest and at the Austrian Academy of Applied Arts - Vienna Honore Award by the International Cultural Union, Israel.
Grants: The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, (1999-2000)
A. and E. Gottlieb Foundation Emergency Assistance Grant, New York (2001)
Public Purchases: City of Vienna, Federal Chancellery, Austria works in private art collections in Hungary, Austria, Germany, Italy, USA
Memberships: eigenart;IAC (International Art Collective) Barcelona, Spain invited artists lectures in CCAC, California College of Art and Crafts, San Francisco 2000;
Art Studio of The Children´s Museum of Cleveland
Publications: catalogue – “Circle in Square”;
book – “ The Seven Prayers”, Edition Ursache & Wirkung, Vienna 2001
Solo and Group Shows: since 1983 in Budapest/Hungary, Wien, Klagenfurt/Austria, Kochi/Japan, Acre, Nazareth, Haifa/Israel, Berlin, Cologne, Munnich/Germany, Conegliano, Udine, Florence, Ferrara/Italy, Jämsä/Finland, Nicosia/Cyprus, Barcelona/Spain, Louisville/KY, Lilburn/GA, Miami Beach/FL/USA, Melbourne/Australia

Reduction to a single form – the circle – forms the basis of my conceptual art. This elementary shape underlies my strictly composed paintings. Uniform in a square format, irritating patterns result, series of patterns that have their origin in variations of interconnected circles, almost overboard the frame. I call the basic structure "circle-net” from which different forms of joined circle segments arise. Their white outlines invoke empty spaces as if pointing to a distance that constitutes a sign of individuality of the almost identical elements of a painting ...

I just finished my major project "the seven prayers" which dominated my life for the better part of the last four years. Many changes in my life accompanied and influenced the work. Deep inside me sometimes I started to doubt that I would ever bring it to an end. The whole series consists of 21 large sized pictures, each one 180x180 cm. Using a specially designed alphabet based on circle segments the seven tryptichen take up motifs of the buddhist Lotus Sutra and represent them as text-pictures. The old geometrical symbol of perfection, the circle as the smallest denominator for unity, is cut into segments, to form a script. ...

seven triptychs dedicated to the Lotus Sutra 1998-2001
paintings: Beate Sandor
texts: Peter Riedl, seven ways to insight the seven factors of inspiration
Regina Kirchweger, the seven prayers
the seven prayers | www.buddhabuch.at | www.amazon.de |

conceptual art based on circle segments, virtual portfolio of acrylic paintings and exhibitions © beate sandor
www.studio-sandor.com
submission date: June 1, 2002