Stano Masár

Stano Masar is a postconceptual arist working in the media of installation, object, light art and video. In his works he often uses and manipulates the most important artworks in the history of art. This manipulation is based on the conjunction of the citation of the popular art work and the idea of “global” – generalization, uniformity, schemes which are characteristic for the common popular perception of the history of art. Author with the sense of humour and a little bit of criticism tries to show and define Euro –American space-time of the established and universal history of art, a schematic view of it. In the projects Global History of Art and Contemporary Visual Art Stano Masár unified the general known works to the uniform language which compresses the most significant features of them. The interesting idea of his projects is reconversion of all the important works, from the Renaissance to the Contemporary Young Art, to the same level which implicates the same importance in the history of art. Artworks chosen from artists such as Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Damien Hirst, Pipilotti Rist, Mauritio Cattelan and others are converted into an easy graphic language of pictograms.