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'''Stanislav Bubán''' (born 5 May 1961) is a [[Slovaks|Slovak]] artist, academic painter and university teacher. He is currently an [[associate professor]] at the [[Academy of Fine Arts]] in [[Bratislava]]. He has received awards both domestically and internationally.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=THE WALKER |url=https://danubiana.sk/en/vystavy/chodec |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=Danubiana}}</ref> He has exhibited in exhibitions in [[England]], [[France]], the [[USA]], the [[Netherlands]], [[Italy]], [[Austria]], [[Hungary]], [[Egypt]], [[Germany]], the [[Czech Republic]], and in [[Slovakia]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/exhibitions/2013/bp-portrait-award-2013/|title=BP Portrait Award 2013 - National Portrait Gallery}}</ref>
'''Stanislav Bubán''' (born 5 May 1961) is a Slovak artist, academic painter and university teacher. He is an [[associate professor]] at the [[Academy of Fine Arts]] in [[Bratislava]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=THE WALKER |url=https://danubiana.sk/en/vystavy/chodec |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=Danubiana}}</ref>


== Early life and education ==
== Early life and education ==
[[File:Stano Bubán, Slovak painter, Artotéka Gallery, Bratislava, 2024.jpg|thumb|Stano Bubán, Slovak painter, Artotéka Gallery, Bratislava, 2024]]
[[File:Stano Bubán, Slovak painter, Artotéka Gallery, Bratislava, 2024.jpg|thumb|upright|Stano Bubán, Slovak painter, Artotéka Gallery, Bratislava, 2024]]
He was born on 5 May 1961 in [[Sečovce]] into the family of painter Štefan Bubán and teacher Zlatica Bubánová (née Brindzáková).<ref name=":0" /> He attended the Primary Art School in [[Trebišov]].{{CN}}
He was born on 5 May 1961 in [[Sečovce]] into the family of painter Štefan Bubán and teacher Zlatica Bubánová (née Brindzáková).<ref name="v336">{{cite web | title=Chodec Stano Bubán: Maľovanie v prírode je slasť | website=Pravda.sk | date=2021-07-25 | url=https://kultura.pravda.sk/galeria/clanok/595547-chodec-stano-buban-malovanie-v-prirode-je-slast/ | language=sk | access-date=2024-11-24}}</ref><ref name="f337">{{cite web | author=Petit Press a.s. | title=Štefan Bubán v Prešove | website=spis.korzar.sme.sk | date=2008-04-28 | url=https://spis.korzar.sme.sk/c/4427259/stefan-buban-v-presove.html | language=sk | access-date=2024-11-24}}</ref>


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After completing the habilitation process at the [[Academy of Fine Arts, Prague]], he was appointed associate professor in 2002.<ref name="auto1">{{Cite web | url=https://www.vsvu.sk/sk/o-nas/kontakt/zamestnanci/stanislav-buban/ | title=Stanislav Bubán | website=www.vsvu.sk | language=sk}}</ref> He teaches in the drawing department at the [[Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava]].
After graduating from the [[Gymnasium (school)|gymnasium]] in Trebišov, he continued his studies at the [[Academy of Fine Arts, Prague]] in the Department of Monumental Painting (under J. Kresila and 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|date=November 2024}}

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After completing the habilitation process at the [[Academy of Fine Arts, Prague]], he was appointed associate professor in 2002.<ref>[https://www.vsvu.sk/sk/o-nas/kontakt/zamestnanci/stanislav-buban/]</ref> He currently teaches in the drawing department at the [[Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava]].
<ref>[https://www.vsvu.sk/sk/udalosti/QXenZJOx/stano-buban-rozpory-a-pribuznosti-09182023/]</ref>


==Art career==
==Art career==
Stano Bubán began his work in the mid-1980s with an expressive postmodern painting style inspired by [[mythology]].<ref name=danubiana>{{Cite web |title=Chodec |url=https://danubiana.sk/vystavy/chodec |access-date=2024-11-21|website=danubiana.sk}}</ref>
Bubán began his work in the mid-1980s with an expressive postmodern painting style inspired by [[mythology]].<ref name=danubiana>{{Cite web |title=Chodec |url=https://danubiana.sk/vystavy/chodec |access-date=2024-11-21|website=danubiana.sk}}</ref>
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He confidently embraced grand themes with bold painterly gestures full of freedom, self-confidence (perhaps even rebellion).[[https://www.tricera.net/artist/painters/8105867?]]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''.<ref name=":1" />


In her monograph on the artist, Beata Jablonská writes:<ref name=":1" />
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After the [[Velvet Revolution]] of 1989, he abandoned figuration and replaced expressionism with abstract monochrome surfaces intertwined with lines.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mojakultura.sk/stano-buban-s-laskou-az-za-hrob/|title=Stano Bubán-S LÁSKOU AŽ ZA HROB|first=Peter|last=Jurík|date=May 9, 2018|website=Moja kultúra}}</ref> He introduced a new aesthetic as well as an intellectual form of new abstraction to the chapter of Slovak art history.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=Stano Bubán / Hasta la muerte, mi amor... |url=https://www.citylife.sk/vystava/stano-buban-hasta-la-muerte-mi-amor-mala-scena |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=CITYLIFE.SK |language=sk}}</ref>

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{{Blockquote|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.}}

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After the [[Velvet Revolution]] of 1989, he abandoned figuration and replaced expressionism with abstract monochrome surfaces intertwined with lines.<ref name="auto2">{{Cite web|url=https://mojakultura.sk/stano-buban-s-laskou-az-za-hrob/|title=Stano Bubán-S LÁSKOU AŽ ZA HROB|first=Peter|last=Jurík|date=May 9, 2018|website=Moja kultúra}}</ref> He introduced a new aesthetic as well as an intellectual form of new abstraction to the chapter of Slovak art history.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=Stano Bubán / Hasta la muerte, mi amor... |url=https://www.citylife.sk/vystava/stano-buban-hasta-la-muerte-mi-amor-mala-scena |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=CITYLIFE.SK |language=sk}}</ref>


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.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.martinus.sk/612669-stano-buban/kniha|website=Martinus|title=stano-buban/kniha}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://galerija-artes.si/en/umetniki/buban-stano-en/|title=buban-stano-en|website=galerija-artes.si}}</ref>
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.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.martinus.sk/612669-stano-buban/kniha|website=Martinus|title=stano-buban/kniha}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://galerija-artes.si/en/umetniki/buban-stano-en/|title=buban-stano-en|website=galerija-artes.si}}</ref>


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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sme.sk/c/693492/stano-buban-namaluje-aj-politikov-pri-poslednej-veceri.html|title=Stano Bubán namaľuje aj politikov pri Poslednej večeri|publisher=Petit Press|website=sme.sk}}</ref> He combines traditional methods with distinctly new ones, creating a new (personal) "system" of painting.[[https://www.lineacollection.sk/stano-buban-intimne-studie/]] 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.''<ref name=":1" />
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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sme.sk/c/693492/stano-buban-namaluje-aj-politikov-pri-poslednej-veceri.html|title=Stano Bubán namaľuje aj politikov pri Poslednej večeri|publisher=Petit Press|website=sme.sk}}</ref> He combines traditional methods with distinctly new ones, creating a new (personal) "system" of painting.<ref name="s999">{{cite web | title=Stano Bubán: Intímne štúdie :: Lineacollection | website=Lineacollection | date=2024-03-05 | url=https://www.lineacollection.sk/stano-buban-intimne-studie/ | language=sk | access-date=2024-11-24}}</ref> Beata Jablonská comments on this phase of his work:<ref name=":1" />


{{Blockquote|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.}}
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Although the themes of his paintings are mythological, linked to literary "loves," the subjects seem to play a secondary role to the visual concept.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.webumenia.sk/dielo/SVK:SNG.O_6541|website=webumenia.sk|title=SVK:SNG.O_6541}}</ref> 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.<ref name=":3" />


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Although the themes of his paintings are mythological, linked to literary "loves," the subjects seem to play a secondary role to the visual concept.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.webumenia.sk/dielo/SVK:SNG.O_6541|website=webumenia.sk|title=SVK:SNG.O_6541|date=1988 }}</ref> 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.<ref name=":3" />
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=== ''Hasta la muerte, mi amor…'' ===
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In 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|date=November 2024}}


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=== {{lang|es|Hasta la muerte, mi amor...}} ===
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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"''.''<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jurík |first=Peter |date=2018-05-09 |title=Stano Bubán-S LÁSKOU AŽ ZA HROB |url=https://mojakultura.sk/stano-buban-s-laskou-az-za-hrob/ |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=Moja kultúra |language=sk-SK}}</ref>

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In 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.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jurík |first=Peter |date=2018-05-09 |title=Stano Bubán-S LÁSKOU AŽ ZA HROB |url=https://mojakultura.sk/stano-buban-s-laskou-az-za-hrob/ |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=Moja kultúra |language=sk-SK}}</ref>

Barbara Brath, the curator of his exhibition {{lang|es|Hasta la muerte, mi amor...}} characterized this period of his painting with the words:<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jurík |first=Peter |date=2018-05-09 |title=Stano Bubán-S LÁSKOU AŽ ZA HROB |url=https://mojakultura.sk/stano-buban-s-laskou-az-za-hrob/ |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=Moja kultúra |language=sk-SK}}</ref>

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{{Blockquote|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.}}


=== ''The Seeking Pilgrim'' ===
=== ''The Seeking Pilgrim'' ===

In 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.[[https://kultura.pravda.sk/galeria/clanok/595547-chodec-stano-buban-malovanie-v-prirode-je-slast/]] 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.<ref name=":2" />
In 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.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://kultura.pravda.sk/galeria/clanok/595547-chodec-stano-buban-malovanie-v-prirode-je-slast | title=Chodec Stano Bubán: Maľovanie v prírode je slasť | date=25 July 2021 }}</ref> 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.<ref name=":2" />


==Books about author==
==Books about author==
[[File:Stano Bubán, Portrait of a former member of the Slovak Philharmonic, 2013, oil on canvas, 50 x 75 cm.jpg|thumb|upright=0.95|]]
[[File:Stano Bubán, Portrait of a former member of the Slovak Philharmonic, 2013, oil on canvas, 50 x 75 cm.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.10|]]
In 2000, the [[Slovak National Gallery]] (Bratislava) published a representative book titled ''Dejiny slovenského výtvarného umenia 20. storočie'' ('The History of Slovak Fine Art: The 20th Century'), which presents and analyzes the work of Stano Bubán.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Rusinová|first1=Zora|last2=Abelovský|first2=Ján|last3=Bajcurová|first3=Katarína|title=Dejiny slovenského výtvarného umenia 20. storočie|year=2000|language=sk|isbn=80-8059-031-1}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Jablonská |first=Beata |url=https://arl4.library.sk/arl-sng/en/detail/?&idx=sng_us_cat*v0030078 |title=Osemdesiate |date=2009 |isbn=978-80-8059-140-3}}</ref>
In 2000, the [[Slovak National Gallery]] (Bratislava) published a representative book titled ''Dejiny slovenského výtvarného umenia 20. storočie'' ('The History of Slovak Fine Art: The 20th Century'), which presents and analyzes the work of Stano Bubán.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Rusinová|first1=Zora|last2=Abelovský|first2=Ján|last3=Bajcurová|first3=Katarína|title=Dejiny slovenského výtvarného umenia 20. storočie|year=2000|language=sk|isbn=80-8059-031-1}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Jablonská |first=Beata |url=https://arl4.library.sk/arl-sng/en/detail/?&idx=sng_us_cat*v0030078 |title=Osemdesiate |date=2009 |publisher=Slovenská národná galéria |isbn=978-80-8059-140-3}}</ref>


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.<ref name=":1" />
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.<ref name=":1" />

==Personal life==
In 1983, he married Simona Bubánová (née Tauchmanová), with whom he had a daughter. In 1991, he remarried. He and his wife, Beata Jablonská, have two daughters. In his free time, he practices [[Kung Fu]] and Taiji. He also dances Argentine tango, at the international school of Professor Rodolfo Dinzel in Buenos Aires.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Stano Bubán: Chodec |url=https://www.citylife.sk/vystava/stano-buban-chodec-danubiana-meulensteen-art-museum-bratislava |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=CITYLIFE.SK |language=sk}}</ref>


==Selected exhibitions==
==Selected exhibitions==
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* 1992 ''Brunovský – Bubán'', Sala communale Grifo e Leone, [[Perugia]], Italy
* 1992 ''Brunovský – Bubán'', Sala communale Grifo e Leone, [[Perugia]], Italy
[[File:Stano Bubán, Black and White Minds, 2015, oil on canvas, 150 x 150 cm.jpg|thumb|upright=0.95|]]
[[File:Stano Bubán, Black and White Minds, 2015, oil on canvas, 150 x 150 cm.jpg|thumb|upright=0.95|]]
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* ''2001 Eine kurze Geschichte zur Malerei'' (''A Short History of Painting)'', Erholungshauses Bayer, [[Leverkusen]], Germany
* ''2001 Eine kurze Geschichte zur Malerei'' (''A Short History of Painting)'', Erholungshauses Bayer, [[Leverkusen]], Germany
* 2002 ''New Paintings'', Marat Art Gallery, Bratislava
* 2002 ''New Paintings'', Marat Art Gallery, Bratislava
* 2003 ''Masterpieces of the 20th Century'' from the collections of the [[Slovak National Gallery]], Bratislava Castle, Bratislava<ref>[https://www.sme.sk/c/1276187/a-tak-sa-hram-na-stareho-majstra.html]</ref><ref>[https://www.panorama.sk/sk/knihy/majstrovske-diela-slovenskeho-vytvarneho-umenia-20-storocia/64]</ref>
* 2003 ''Masterpieces of the 20th Century'' from the collections of the [[Slovak National Gallery]], Bratislava Castle, Bratislava<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sme.sk/c/1276187/a-tak-sa-hram-na-stareho-majstra.html|title=A tak sa hrám na starého majstra|first=Petit Press|last=a.s|website=www.sme.sk}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.panorama.sk/sk/knihy/majstrovske-diela-slovenskeho-vytvarneho-umenia-20-storocia/64|title=Panoráma.sk - Majstrovské diela slovenského výtvarného umenia 20. storočia|website=Panorama.sk}}</ref>
[[File:Stano Bubán, Silence, 2020, oil on canvas, 180 x 250 cm.jpg|thumb|upright=0.95|]]
[[File:Stano Bubán, Silence, 2020, oil on canvas, 180 x 250 cm.jpg|thumb|upright=0.95|]]
* 2005 ''Together in a Journey'', Slovak Institute (together with Nena González Thayer),[[Budapest]], Hungary and [[Vienna]],Austria
* 2005 ''Together in a Journey'', Slovak Institute (together with Nena González Thayer), [[Budapest]], Hungary and [[Vienna]], Austria
* 2007 ''Together in a Journey'' (together with Nena González Thayer), Koloman Sokol Gallery, Washington, D.C., United States<ref>[https://www.predajobrazov.sk/autor/?autorId=15]</ref>
* 2007 ''Together in a Journey'' (together with Nena González Thayer), Koloman Sokol Gallery, Washington, D.C., United States<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.predajobrazov.sk/autor/?autorId=15|title=Bubán Stanislav © / LITA 2022 &#124; Autor &#124; Predajobrazov.sk|website=www.predajobrazov.sk}}</ref>
* 2008 Kresling Gallery, Bratislava
* 2008 Kresling Gallery, Bratislava
* 2009 The 1980s: Postmodernism in Slovak Visual Arts[[https://kuultur.com/osemdesiate-postmoderna-v-slovenskom-vytvarnom-umeni-1985-1992/]]
* 2009 The 1980s: Postmodernism in Slovak Visual Arts
* 2011 ''L'art slovaque à la Cité internationale des Arts'', Cité internationale des Arts, Paris, France<ref name="a779">{{cite web | author=Knižnica Slovenskej národnej galerie | title=Detail záznamu | website=ARL homepage | url=https://arl4.library.sk/arl-sng/sk/detail/?idx=sng_us_cat*0019913+L'art+slovaque+%C3%A0+la+Cit%C3%A9+internationale+des+arts+2011-2016+=+Slovensk%C3%A9+umenie+v+Cit%C3%A9+internationale+des+arts+2011-2016 | language=sk | access-date=2024-11-24}}</ref>
[[File:Stano Bubán, Eruv II, 2007, oil on canvas, 240 x 200 cm.jpg|thumb|upright=0.85|]]
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* 2013 ''BP Portrait Award'', National Portrait Gallery, [[London]], United Kingdom<ref name="auto">{{Cite web |title=BP Portrait Award 2013 - National Portrait Gallery |url=https://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/exhibitions/2013/bp-portrait-award-2013/}}</ref>
* 2011 ''L’art slovaque à la Cité internationale des Arts'', Cité internationale des Arts, Paris, France [[https://arl4.library.sk/arl-sng/sk/detail/?&idx=sng_us_cat*0019913]]
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* 2013 ''BP Portrait Award'', National Portrait Gallery, [[London]], United Kingdom<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/exhibitions/2013/bp-portrait-award-2013/|title=BP Portrait Award 2013 - National Portrait Gallery}}</ref>
* 2015 ''Time of the Bull'', Artšrot Gallery, Bratislava
* 2015 ''Time of the Bull'', Artšrot Gallery, Bratislava
* 2016 ''Time of the Bull'', J. Boljke Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia<ref>[https://galerija-artes.si/en/umetniki/buban-stano-en/]</ref>
* 2016 ''Time of the Bull'', J. Boljke Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://galerija-artes.si/en/umetniki/buban-stano-en/|title=Buban Stano}}</ref>
* 2017 ''The 13th Chamber'', ČinČin Gallery, Bratislava <ref>[https://galeriacincin.sk/news/showNew/stano-buban]</ref>
* 2017 ''The 13th Chamber'', ČinČin Gallery, Bratislava<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://galeriacincin.sk/news/showNew/stano-buban|title=Galéria Čin Čin|website=Galéria Čin Čin}}</ref>
* 2018 ''Hasta la muerte, mi amor'' (Until Death, My Love), Malá Scéna Theatre, Bratislava<ref>[https://mojakultura.sk/stano-buban-s-laskou-az-za-hrob/]</ref>
* 2018 ''Hasta la muerte, mi amor'' (Until Death, My Love), Malá Scéna Theatre, Bratislava<ref name="auto2"/>
* 2021 ''The Walker'', Danubiana, Bratislava<ref name=danubiana/>
* 2021 ''The Walker'', Danubiana, Bratislava<ref name=danubiana/>
* 2024 ''Phenomenon of Iceland'', Artotéka Gallery, Bratislava<ref>[https://www.vsvu.sk/sk/o-nas/kontakt/zamestnanci/stanislav-buban/]</ref>
* 2024 ''Phenomenon of Iceland'', Artotéka Gallery, Bratislava<ref name="auto1"/>

==Awards==
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* 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 Artsh<ref>[ttps://www.vsvu.sk/sk/o-nas/kontakt/zamestnanci/stanislav-buban/]</ref>
* 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<ref name=":0"/><ref name=danubiana/>


==References==
==References==

Latest revision as of 21:11, 30 December 2024

Stano Bubán
Bubán in 2021
Born (1961-05-05) 5 May 1961 (age 63)
Sečovce, Czechoslovakia
Alma materAcademy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava
OccupationPainter
Websitewww.stanobuban.sk/en/en-bio//omne_sk.html

Stanislav Bubán (born 5 May 1961) is a Slovak artist, academic painter and university teacher. He is an associate professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava.[1]

Early life and education

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Stano Bubán, Slovak painter, Artotéka Gallery, Bratislava, 2024

He was born on 5 May 1961 in Sečovce into the family of painter Štefan Bubán and teacher Zlatica Bubánová (née Brindzáková).[2][3]

After completing the habilitation process at the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, he was appointed associate professor in 2002.[4] He teaches in the drawing department at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava.

Art career

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Bubán began his work in the mid-1980s with an expressive postmodern painting style inspired by mythology.[5]

In her monograph on the artist, Beata Jablonská writes:[6]

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.

After the Velvet Revolution of 1989, he abandoned figuration and replaced expressionism with abstract monochrome surfaces intertwined with lines.[7] He introduced a new aesthetic as well as an intellectual form of new abstraction to the chapter of Slovak art history.[8]

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.[6] 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.[9]

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.[10] He combines traditional methods with distinctly new ones, creating a new (personal) "system" of painting.[11] Beata Jablonská comments on this phase of his work:[6]

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.

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.[8]

Hasta la muerte, mi amor...

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In 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.[13]

Barbara Brath, the curator of his exhibition Hasta la muerte, mi amor... characterized this period of his painting with the words:[14]

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.

The Seeking Pilgrim

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In 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.[15] 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.[1]

Books about author

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In 2000, the Slovak National Gallery (Bratislava) published a representative book titled Dejiny slovenského výtvarného umenia 20. storočie ('The History of Slovak Fine Art: The 20th Century'), which presents and analyzes the work of Stano Bubán.[16] 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.[17]

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.[6]

Selected exhibitions

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  • 1992 Brunovský – Bubán, Sala communale Grifo e Leone, Perugia, Italy
  • 1993 Kunstpreis der Stadt Erfurt, Gallery am Fischmarkt, Erfurt, Germany
  • 1994 5th International Cairo Biennal, Cairo, Egypt
  • 1995 5+4 from Slovakia, The House of Cyprus, Athens, Greece
  • 1996 XXVIII. Festival International de la Peinture, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France
  • 1997 Dordrecht – Bratislava, VBKD Gallery, Dordrecht, Netherlands
  • 2000 Celjski mednarodní slikarski tedni, Keleia Gallery, Celje, Slovenia[18]
  • 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[19][20]
  • 2005 Together in a Journey, Slovak Institute (together with Nena González Thayer), Budapest, Hungary and Vienna, Austria
  • 2007 Together in a Journey (together with Nena González Thayer), Koloman Sokol Gallery, Washington, D.C., United States[21]
  • 2008 Kresling Gallery, Bratislava
  • 2009 The 1980s: Postmodernism in Slovak Visual Arts
  • 2011 L'art slovaque à la Cité internationale des Arts, Cité internationale des Arts, Paris, France[22]
  • 2013 BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London, United Kingdom[23]
  • 2015 Time of the Bull, Artšrot Gallery, Bratislava
  • 2016 Time of the Bull, J. Boljke Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia[24]
  • 2017 The 13th Chamber, ČinČin Gallery, Bratislava[25]
  • 2018 Hasta la muerte, mi amor (Until Death, My Love), Malá Scéna Theatre, Bratislava[7]
  • 2021 The Walker, Danubiana, Bratislava[5]
  • 2024 Phenomenon of Iceland, Artotéka Gallery, Bratislava[4]

References

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  2. ^ "Chodec Stano Bubán: Maľovanie v prírode je slasť". Pravda.sk (in Slovak). 2021-07-25. Retrieved 2024-11-24.
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  16. ^ Rusinová, Zora; Abelovský, Ján; Bajcurová, Katarína (2000). Dejiny slovenského výtvarného umenia 20. storočie (in Slovak). ISBN 80-8059-031-1.
  17. ^ Jablonská, Beata (2009). Osemdesiate. Slovenská národná galéria. ISBN 978-80-8059-140-3.
  18. ^ "EN Bio". stanobuban.sk. 2021-11-07. Retrieved 2024-11-21.
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  21. ^ "Bubán Stanislav © / LITA 2022 | Autor | Predajobrazov.sk". www.predajobrazov.sk.
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  24. ^ "Buban Stano".
  25. ^ "Galéria Čin Čin". Galéria Čin Čin.
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