Marek Ormandik likes to paint with a wide brush stroke. It is obvious to everyone who knows his work and therefore it does not have to be examined in more detail. But, and that’s a good question, why is he always painting in a wide brush stroke? Is it just a pose to guarantee that his painting is sufficiently original or is there something else in the matter? It is certainly not a pose, so we definitely need a wider interpretation.

During his years of artistic production, he exhibited at separate and joint exhibitions in about twenty countries. Let’s not only mention Slovakia and the neighboring Czech Republic but also Austria, Hungary and Germany, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Turkey, as well as Russia, Japan or the USA. In 1998, the film Sklenné obrazy (Glass Images) was shot about his work, and two poetry collections of Shooting Prayers (1995) and Moon on Red (2006) were published in Bratislava.

Matej Fabian was born on June 23, 1979 in Banská Bystrica. In 2005 – 2011 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava, at the Department of Painting and Other Media, in the IV. atelier of Professor Ivan Csudai. The study was completed by the diploma cycle- Predator. Since 2011 he has been studying at VŠVU as a PhD student at the Drawing Cabinet of doc. Stanislav Buban. 2011, 2012 finalist of Painting of the Year. 2010 HENKEL Art Award, nomination for Slovakia.