Buban Stano – Dolce Vita – Memories
2015 / acrylic on canvas / 70×90 cm
About the author:
He was born in 1961 in Sečovce, Slovakia. He graduated from the Department of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava (1980-1986). He is currently active as a lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava. He has exhibited solo and in group exhibitions in Slovakia, the National Gallery in Skopje, Macedonia; the National Portrait Gallery in London, England; Wilmington, USA; Frankfurt, Germany. He is the recipient of the first prize “Towards of culture and solidarity” in Limassol, Cyprus. He is a member of the Slovak Association of Visual Artists. He lives in Bratislava.
Buban is one of the most significant Slovak painter personalities of the 1980s. The first period of his work is associated with neo-expressionist stylization of new painting, later in the late 1980s approaching an abstract expression, which culminates in a cycle of black-and-white paintings. Currently, his painterly expression is a bittersweet response to the world around us, presented through old techniques and ideas.
