About Igor Fasko
In life you often have to be quite brave. For example, if you live in Germany, a country where we love the gray, melancholy, the doubt, the gloomy romance and peace of mind that you cannot do anything anyway. Because of that thought not even going to vote, even though we fought for that right not so long ago. Or, if you live in Slovakia, a country that is largely moved out of our consciousness, because it is no longer located behind the Iron Curtain, but rather behind the sheet metal wall, in Eastern Europe, where the towns are supposedly gray and dark as the Polish writer Andrzej Stasiuk describes: "In autumn we see that the city dies. Those who want to escape have fled long ago. At ten everything is dead. Only the gas station lives. Then the people go to the marketplace and look at the obituaries to see who has died, and then be glad that it has not caught themselves yet. They are waiting for a revolution to change everything. They wait; hoping that everything will be turned upside down, that everything will be completely different from what it was, that the last shall be first. "
Or if one even lives in both countries and speaks both languages, like Igor Fasko.
"With each new learned language, one acquires a new soul." So a Slovak proverb says. But maybe a new language makes the soul and the heart even larger, wider and more open.
That would be a requirement that the last shall be the first - this has always been, but it is increasingly rare, also a drive of art. And life, a good life for everyone in the future.
The future grows from memories - from memory also the paintings and sculptures of Igor Faskos grow.
Art can do anything: disturb, agitate, shock - but it can also reconcile, can make us friendly, can comfort us - it can be or become vital for the person who makes it, and for them who look at it, use it.
Matthias Zwarg
Education:
Igor Faško
1967 • born in Treuenbrietzen, Germany
1985-1991 • studying at Faculty of Architecture, STU, Bratislava, Slovakia
1990 • postgraduate course Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst, Wien, Austria
1992-1993 • practicing architecture in Bratislava, cooperation with sculptor Peter Strassner (interieur "U zlého námorníka", Devín)
1994-2001 • practicing architecture in Chemnitz, Germany (Höhn und Fischer)
2002 • freelance architect and artist
2005 • member of German Union of Artists in Chemnitz CKB e.V. BBK
2006 • member of Slovak Union of Artists in Bratislava, SSVU
he has been living in Germany and Slovakia
Selected group exhibitions
Bratislava, Salon of freelance artists, 2006 - 2014, Slovenská umelecká beseda, Dom umenia • Bratislava Memory Day, Slovenská umelecká beseda • Chemnitz - Projektraum CKB e.V. "Neuaufnahmen" • Castle Holíč, Slovakia 2007 • Chemnitz Herbstsalon, Augustusburg, 2007 - 2011 • Merseburg, Kunst aus Deutschland Mitte • Bratislava, Picture in Music, Slovak Radio • Chemnitz, Projektraum CKB e.V. 2008 exhibition 20x20 • Bratislava, Chopin exhibition, Slovak Radio Gallery • Oelsnitz, Galerie HHH "Wegzeichen 10" • Chemnitz Projektraum CKB e.V. Zeitgleich 2010 • Chemnitz, Neue Sächsische Galerie, 20 Jahre Kunsteverein Laterne • Leipzig Freiluftgalerie Parcours 2011 and 2012 • Zukunftsvisionen 2013, Görlitz, Germany • Bratislava - Devin, Hommage a Peter Strassner • Chemnitz, Galerie Laterne, Pleineir • Chemnitz, Werkschau - Auf den Punkt 2014 • Bratislava, Galéria RTVS, Abstrakcia versus figúra 2015 • Chemnitz, Galerie Turm, Augustusburg - 25 Jahre Laterne 2015 • Chemnitz , Projektraum CKB e.V. K.A.M. 2015 • Martin, Turčianska galery, 6 bienale at freelance fine art, 2016 • Chemnitz, Galerie Laterne, Maske und Gesicht, 2017 • Praha, Slovak Institut, Chaos - Univers, 2017
Selected solo exhibitions
Wien, Waluso Verein • Chemnitz, Galerie Schauspielhaus • Banská Bystrica, Gallery Museum of Slovak National Uprising • Poprad, Tatra Gallery • Bratislava, Gallery BCPB • Bratislava, Pálffy Palace • Zvolen, Zvolen Castle Slovak National Gallery • Leipzig, Art-Domain Gallery • Liptovský Mikuláš, J. Kráľ Museum, former synagogue • Blankenfelde, Alte Aula - Galerie Leiga • Paris, Galerie A.O.T.S. rue de Bachelet 6 • Chemnitz, Galerie Laterne • Bratislava, K-Gallery, Made in Myto • Bratislava, Slovak Radio Gallery, Made in Myto II • Mönchengladbach, Kunst im Zenturo, Made in Slovakia • Berlin - Galerie Della Rovere - Made in Slovakia • Bratislava, GUBA Gallery • Dolný Kubín, Orava Gallery 2012 • Dresden, Haus der Architekten 2013 • Chemnitz, Galerie Laterne 2014 • Berlin - Galerie Vinogradov, 2015 • Liptovský Mikuláš, Gallery P. M. Bohúňa 2016 • Martin, Turčianska galéria, Unconcret realistic, 2017, Vienna, Bellart Gallery 2017
