Stanislav Bubán (born May 5, 1961, Sečovce) is a Slovak artist, academic painter, and university teacher.[1] He is currently an associate professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava. During his long artistic career, he has received awards both domestically and internationally.[2] He has exhibited in numerous exhibitions both at home and abroad, including in England, France, the USA, the Netherlands, Italy, Austria, Hungary, Egypt, Germany, the Czech Republic, and in Slovakia.[3]
Stano Bubán | |
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 Stano Bubán, Slovak painter | |
| Born | 5 May 1961 Sečovce, Slovakia |
| Alma mater | Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava |
| Occupation | Painter |
| Website | www |
Early life and education
editHe was born in Sečovce into the family of renowned painter Štefan Bubán and teacher Zlatica Bubánová (née Brindzáková).[1] Influenced by his home environment, he aspired to become an artist. He attended the Elementary Art School in Trebišov. He has two siblings, sisters Lena Lešková (née Bubánová) and Erika Lyciusová (née Bubánová).[citation needed]
After graduating from the gymnasium in Trebišov, he continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague in the Department of Monumental Painting (under Associate Professor J. Kresila and Professor E. Lehotská) from 1980 to 1986. He was part of an informal generational group (S. Bubánová, D. Brunovský, I. Csudai, D. Jurkovič, L. Terén, J. Šramka) that brought postmodernism into Slovak fine art in the second half of the 1980s.[citation needed]
After completing the habilitation process at the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, he was appointed associate professor in 2002.[4] He currently teaches in the drawing department at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava. [5]
Art career
editStano Bubán began his work in the mid-1980s with an expressive postmodern painting style inspired by mythology.[6] He confidently embraced grand themes with bold painterly gestures full of freedom, self-confidence (perhaps even rebellion).[[3]]srsltid=AfmBOop441hXXeYbTC_vhB9k94ruoXHScMia7WbQ7L4jgBJ5Mo9br21C In her monograph on the artist, Beata Jablonská writes: "Stano Bubán, in his early group exhibitions with the 'postmodern pirates,' which were perceived almost as manifesto performances, introduced tempera paintings on large papers. They stood out not so much for their clear association with transavantgarde poetics and its vocabulary but rather through their expressive, wild, and elemental painting style that naturally emerged from his painterly handwriting.[7]
After the Velvet Revolution of 1989, he abandoned figuration and replaced expressionism with abstract monochrome surfaces intertwined with lines.[8] He introduced a new aesthetic as well as an intellectual form of new abstraction to the chapter of Slovak art history.[9]
His "indiscipline" did not prevent him from exploring all the possible structural elements of the painting (typical of non-representational approaches), thus laying the foundation for experiments mixing minimalist, perhaps even conceptual approaches with more intuitive and gestural ones.[7] It was precisely this "disobedience" that brought an authentic and decisive position to the context of contemporary Slovak painting within the framework of new abstraction.[10]
Around 1998, he concluded his cycle of abstract painting and turned once again to realistic figurative composition, drawing from the techniques of the old masters.[11] He combines traditional methods with distinctly new ones, creating a new (personal) "system" of painting.[[4]] Beata Jablonská comments on this phase of his work: His 'new' painting follows realistic objectives, even initially according to the demanding principles of old master techniques. Bubán’s painting once again becomes painterly research and experimentation. The return to conventions of realistic painting is the turn of an artist well-versed in art history and contemporary interpretive theories.[7]
Although the themes of his paintings are mythological, linked to literary "loves," the subjects seem to play a secondary role to the visual concept.[12] The stylization of figures is the result of "thinking through painting," meaning that the reduction comes from brush techniques, with an emphasis on the impact of painterly gesture and expression.[9]
Hasta la muerte, mi amor…
editIn 2018, Bubán presented a series of paintings on the theme of death at the Malá scéna STU theater, featuring the strong symbol of skulls. Human, animal, solitary skulls, or in pairs, function on the colorful surface of the paintings, sometimes matte and almost monochromatic, other times vividly bright. The skulls are depicted in both interior and exterior settings, but the most frequent environment is the forest or a decorative abstract background.[citation needed]
Barbara Brath, the curator of his exhibition Hasta la muerte, mi amor… characterized this period of his painting with the words: "Death is something that is inevitable. It will come one day. In life, the only certainty is death. And although we generally seek certainties in life, this single one invokes fear. Death sometimes comes unexpectedly, shockingly, quickly, and perhaps too soon; other times it drags on, people await it, even pray for it, as it may bring relief from life's pain. The theme of death is timeless; in a way, it both attracts and repels us because it is dangerously unexplored, unknown, something we do not understand and often fear precisely because of that".[13]
The Seeking Pilgrim
editIn 2021, Bubán exhibited his collection The Walker at the Danubiana Gallery. Feelings of frustration, emptiness, and nothingness led him, along with artist Eva Šrubařová, to start painting outdoors in the Malé Karpaty region in November 2018.[[5]] For a year, they hiked and painted the landscape once a week, no matter the weather. Whether it was snowing, raining, freezing, or scorching hot, they painted at night with headlamps, early in the morning, or during the magical twilight hour. This period resulted in Bubán’s large-scale plein-air paintings. His landscape paintings reflect contemporary environmental issues, frustration with politics, and his own identity.[2]
Books about author
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In 2000, the Slovak National Gallery (Bratislava) published a representative book titled The History of Slovak Fine Art: The 20th Century, which presents and analyzes the work of Stano Bubán.[14] Nine years later, in 2009, the Slovak National Gallery released another publication, The Eighties: Postmodernism in Slovak Fine Art 1985–1992. The book was showcased at the Eighties exhibition held at the Esterházy Palace in Bratislava in 2009.[15]
In 2013, the publishing house Virvar released the monograph Stano Bubán. In this publication, art theorist Beata Jablonská evaluates Bubán's work from its beginnings to the present. The author organized her reflections on the artist’s paintings both chronologically and thematically. Several independent studies complement the full-color visual material, shedding light on the background of the creation of the works.[7]
Personal life
editIn 1983, he married Simona Bubánová (née Tauchmanová), with whom he had a daughter, Lujza Bubánová. In 1991, he remarried. He and his wife, Beata Jablonská, have two daughters: Ľudmila Bubánová and Hana Bubánová. In his free time, he practices Kung Fu and Taiji. He also dances Argentine tango, even at the international school of Professor Rodolfo Dinzel in Buenos Aires.[16]
Selected exhibitions
edit- 1992
- Wounds and Band-Aids, Na bydílku, Brno, Czech Republic
- Brunovský – Bubán, Sala communale Grifo e Leone, Perugia, Italy
- 1993
- 1994 5th International Cairo Biennal, Cairo, Egypt
- 1995
- 5+4 from Slovakia, The House of Cyprus, Athens, Greece
- Different Black, City Gallery of Bratislava, Mirbach Palace, Bratislava
- 1996
- 1997
- Dordrecht – Bratislava, VBKD Gallery, Dordrecht, Netherlands
- Really painting, Slovak National Gallery, Vermes Villa, Dunajská Streda
- 2000
- Contemporary Slovak Art, Gallery of the International Monetary Fund, Washington, USA
- International Biennal of Drawing and Graphic Arts, City Museum, Gyor, Hungary
- Celjski mednarodní slikarski tedni, Keleia Gallery, Celje, Slovenia[1]
- 2001 Eine kurze Geschichte zur Malerei (A Short History of Painting), Erholungshauses Bayer, Leverkusen, Germany
- 2002 New Paintings, Marat Art Gallery, Bratislava
- 2003 Masterpieces of the 20th Century from the collections of the Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava Castle, Bratislava [[6]]
- 2005
- 2006
- Contemporary Slovak Art, European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Intimate Studies, Linea Gallery, Bratislava
- 2007 Together in a Journey (together with Nena González Thayer), Koloman Sokol Gallery, Washington, USA
- 2008 Kresling Gallery, Bratislava
- 2009
- The Art of Tolerance, Danubiana, Bratislava
- The 1980s: Postmodernism in Slovak Visual Arts
- 2011
- Repentance and Other Plays, Slovak National Theatre, Bratislava
- Otto, eight VŠVU educators, Slovak Institute, Rome, Italy
- L’art slovaque à la Cité internationale des Arts, Cité internationale des Arts, Paris, France
- 2013 BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London, England [17]
- 2015 Time of the Bull, Artšrot Gallery, Bratislava
- 2016 Time of the Bull, J. Boljke Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia[[7]]
- 2017 The 13th Chamber, ČinČin Gallery, Bratislava
- 2018 Hasta la muerte, mi amor (Until Death, My Love), Malá Scéna Theatre, Bratislava[[8]]
- 2021 The Walker, Danubiana, Bratislava[18][[9]]
- 2024 Phenomenon of Iceland, Artotéka Gallery, Bratislava [[10]]
Study stays
edit- 2008 Resident of Cité Internationale des Paris
- 2012 No Boundaries International Art Colony - Bald Head Island, NC, USA
- 2014 Second International Oil Painting Creation Camp at Zhangjiajie, Hunan Province, China
- 2016
- 2017
- 2018 XVIII SIMPOSIO INTERNACIONAL DE ARTISTAS EN NOJA SIANOJA 2018, Espiral Gallery, Noja, Spain
- 2019 Painting Today, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, China
- 2021
- Valeč and Czech Baroque through the Eyes of European Artists, International Symposium of Drawing and Painting, State Castle Valeč, Czech Republic
- International Visual Arts Festival, Art Circle Art House Saksida, Dornberk, Slovenia[1]
Awards
edit- 2004 G. De Nittis Award at the II. Biennale Internazionale d’Nittis
- 2013 Nominee for the Travel Award, exhibition of portrait works at
- 2018 Award of the Slovak Union of Visual Arts at the Biennale of Free Fine Arts
- 2019 8th Beijing International Art Biennale, National Art Museum of China
- 2020 Award of the Slovak Union of Visual Arts at the Biennale of Free Fine Arts[1] [19]
References
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- ^ Jurík, Peter (May 9, 2018). "Stano Bubán-S LÁSKOU AŽ ZA HROB". Moja kultúra.
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- ^ "Kniha: Dejiny slovenského výtvarného umenia 20. storočie - Zora Rusinová - Ján Abelovský - Katarína Bajcurová - Vladimír Beskid - Matúš Dulla - Jana Geržová - Aurel Hrabušický - Silvia Ilečková - Beata Jablonská - Ivan Jančár - Marta Janovíčková - Zdeno Kolesár - Klára Kubíková - Václav Macek - Radislav Matuštík - Iva Mojžišová - Dagmar Poláčková - Katarína Rusnáková - Ágnes Schrammová - Štefan Šlachta - Tatiana Vančová - Alena Vrbanová - Marian Zervan - Eva Trojanová | InfoGate".
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