Čarsky David – 612

David was Born in Bratislava in 1959. He graduated in graphics from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava in the class of Professor Igor Rumanski in 1992. However, his artistic journey began under the guidance of Professor Hološka in the School of Applied Arts, where he studied sculpture from 1974 to 1978 and restoration from 1980 to 1982. Ever since then he has worked with stone, but has also become familiar with various art conservation technologies that were to help him later in his painting. David was an exchange student studying in the Art Department at the University of Pennsylvania in 1990/91. He has received many awards and studentships, so he was a scholarship student in Italy, as well as in Pennsylvania and his home country. He received the Ronald and Eileen Weiser Professional Development Award in the USA and the Slovakian Association of Painters Award. He has also participated as a speaker in numerous symposia and professional residences, while today he teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava. David has organised many individual exhibitions and taken part in group jury exhibitions in his home country and abroad: in the USA, Austria, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, China and Ireland. His painting is characterised by a strong mental focus, clarity and asceticism pushed to the limits, to the basics which he transfers onto the canvas, constructing his paintings-objects with shades of green, grey, brown and ochre. He always combines his works into diptychs or triptychs, thus evening out the abstract nature of the painting.