Stano Masar

Born in 1971, lives in Bratislava, Slovak Republic. He received a Masters from the Faculty of Education and Teaching, Department of Painting, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovak Republic.

 

Stano Masar is a postconceptual arist working in the media of installation, object, light art and video. In his works he often uses and manipulates the most important artworks in the history of art. This manipulation is based on the conjunction of the citation of the popular art work and the idea of "global" - generalization, uniformity, schemes which are characteristic for the common popular perception of the history of art. Author with the sense of humour and a little bit of criticism tries to show and define Euro -American space-time of the established and universal history of art, a schematic view of it. In the projects Global History of Art and Contemporary Visual Art Stano Masár unified the general known works to the uniform language which compresses the most significant features of them. The interesting idea of his projects is reconversion of all the important works, from the Renaissance to the Contemporary Young Art, to the same level which implicates the same importance in the history of art. Artworks chosen from artists such as Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Damien Hirst, Pipilotti Rist, Mauritio Cattelan and others are converted into an easy graphic language of pictograms.

 

Solo Shows:

2008 After Duchamp, SPACE Gallery, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

2007 Hyperrealism, Nitra Gallery, Nitra, Slovak Republic

2006 Global History of Art, SPACE Gallery, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

2004 Time To Close, At Home Gallery, Samorin, Slovak Republic

2002 tAble Setting, GJK - Synagogue, Trnava, Slovak Republic

2001 tAble Setting, Nitra Gallery, Nitra, 2000 New Ways, Cosmos Factory, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

1999 ... About Show-cases, G Minigallery, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

1999 1=2, G Minigallery, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

1995 Signs, G Minigallery, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

 

Selected Group Shows:

2008 PULSE artfair, SPACE Gallery, Miami, USA

2008 Viennafair, SPACE Gallery, Vienna, Austria

2008 PULSE artfair, SPACE Gallery, New York, USA

2008 New Zlin Salon, Zlin, Czech Republic

2008 Me and the others, Nitra Gallery, Nitra, Slovak Republic

2008 Four Cities in Motion, site specific project, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

2008 Interface, Open Space - Zentum fur Kunstprojekte, Vienna, Austria

2007 Please Pay Attention!, 26cc spce for cont. Art, Rome, Italy

2007 You have to eat, Nitra Gallery, Nitra, Slovak Republic

2007 Praguebiennale 3, Karlin Halls, Prague, Czech Republic

2007 Lego, SPACE Gallery, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

2007 From the Acquisitions of Contemporary Art, SNG, Brtaislava, Slovak Republic

2007 Portes d`Europe V., Musee d`Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France

2006 Crazycurators Biennale, SPACE Gallery, Brtaislava, Slovak Republic

2006 Oskar Cepan Prize (finalist), Medium Gallery, Brtaislava, Slovak Republic

2006 Contemporary Art from Slovakia, ECB, Frankfurt, Germany

2006 Runaway, SPACE Gallery, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

2006 Autopoesis, Slovak Natonal Gallery, Brtaislava, Slovakia

2005 Market, Old Market Hall, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

2005 New Zlin Salon, Zlin, Czech Republic

2004 Metro, SPACE Gallery, Brtaislava, Slovak Republic

2003 Stadt in Sicht, Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria

2003 Oskar Cepan Prize (finalist), Slovak Institute, Prague, Czech Republic

2003 Ne-vesta/The Bride, GJK - Synagogu, Slovak Republic

2002 Nybüvitt, GJK - Synagogue, Trnava, Slovak Republic

2002 2200 N, Norrebro Park, Copenhagen, Denmark

2002 The Oskar Cepan Prize, (finalist), The City Gallery, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

2000 Back to the Stars, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislav, Slovak Republic

 

Represented in the collections: Slovak National Gallery, Brtaislava; PGU Žilina, Slovak Republic

Private collections in Slovak Republic, Czech Republic, Italy, USA, Austria, Great Britain, Germany, Switzerland

 

Presented at art fairs: Viennafair Vienna /AT/, PULSE New York, Miami /USA/, Kunst Zurich /SUI/, KunStart Bolzano /IT/