Ormandik Marek – Prince 1

Marek was Born in Bratislava, Slovakia, in 1968. After finishing the course in graphic design in the Secondary school of applied arts, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava in the Department of Graphics (with professors Lebiš, Rumansky and Kallay), graduating in 1993. He is active in painting, graphics, drawing, illustration and graphic design. His works have been exhibited since 1990 in jury exhibitions in Slovakia, Czech Republic, Croatia, Hungary, Slovenia, France, Japan, USA and Canada. In 2005 he stayed in Cite des Arts in Paris. He has participated in many symposia in France, Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovenia. His individual exhibitions were held in Slovakia, Czech Republic, Norway, France (1999), Hungary (2002), Italy (2004), Russia (2007) and Slovenia (2008). He received a number of awards and acknowledgements, particularly for book illustration (in 1994,1995, 1997, 2001, 2006 and in 2008 for the best book of the year in Slovakia), Grand Prix in Mandrač, Croatia, Grand Prix for illustration in Slovakia in 2005, and awards such as Premiolntemationaled’arte in San Crispiano in Italy. Two monographs were published about his work, in 2005 and 2010, the latter with an interesting title The Purgatory of MarekOrmandik. He lives and works as an independent artist in Bratislava.