Exhibition Opening and Exhibition of Igor Faško – Materia prima

The exhibition opening of Igor Faško – Materia prima will take place on May 8 at 5:00 PM. The exhibition will last until June 4, 2026.

Architect, painter, sculptor, and designer Igor Faško was born in 1967 in Treuenbrietzen, Germany, near Berlin. He studied at the Faculty of Architecture at STU in Bratislava, where he also completed a study stay at the Hochschule für angewandte Kunst in Vienna. He subsequently worked as an architect in Bratislava and collaborated with sculptor Peter Strassner. Since 2001, he has been a freelance architect and artist. He is a member of the German Federation of Visual Artists and the Slovak Fine Arts Union. He currently lives and works alternately in central Slovakia in Mýtá pod Ďumbierom and in Germany.

Igor Faško's work, characterized by vibrant colors and contrasts, belongs to postmodern visual art. His earlier works were especially colorful and playful. His pieces are part of numerous group exhibitions, and he has exhibited individually in galleries in Slovakia, as well as in Paris (Gallery A.O.T.S., 2009), Vienna (Bellart gallery, 2017), Dresden (Haus der Architekten, 2013), Berlin (Galerie Vinogradov, 2015), and other European cities. Currently, he is also working on his interesting architectural and artistic design for the Holocaust Memorial in Banská Bystrica.

The exhibition Materia prima presents Faško's work as an artistic exploration of reality. It is not a faithful representation but rather how the artist understands it – through abstraction, symbols, and his own imagination.

The main theme is the search for the "basic material" of the world – the essence of reality. The "basic material" – Materia prima – is what was first here. Faško explores it through space, time, and movement, which he considers to be key elements of existence.

His works transform reality into symbols and abstract structures, forcing the viewer to think and seek their own meaning, depicting the world as an ever-changing system of relationships.

Thus, the exhibition shows that art is not just aesthetics but a way to understand the world and its hidden layers.

Igor Faško exhibited in Poprad in 2006, where he presented the exhibition Path of Deconstructionism. After twenty years, he returns to these, albeit reconstructed, spaces as a mature author, constantly searching and exploring the essence of life and creating Materia prima.

During the opening, his long-time friend and critic, Prof. Martin Ciel, will give a speech.