Dante’s work Purgatory has a twofold effect on people. One of the groups deals with the images described in this opus by putting the book down, the other lets these images flow inside and reacts with them in the long term.
Marek Ormandík, as the one who belongs to the second group, is a painter. He is one of the most successful Slovakian painters of his generation. Influenced by Dante, he understood that in order to enter life to the next level, he must transform the images from Purgatory into material form on canvas.
This work in the size of more than 50 paintings and sculptures was gradually created over 4 years, during whose illustrations for Dante’s book were created as a separate project. Marek borrowed the name and published a collective work captured in a book publication, where he works freely with the topic. To make the book complete, Marek approached Oskar Rózsa, who subsequently addressed Vladislav and Marcel Buntay, (a famous drummer) to add a musical reflection to the visual form. That’s how was born the free musical reflection Purgatory on the artistic visual reflection, on which Marek worked from 2007 to 2011.
Captured in his words: “I’m flying through space, I’m losing the Earth under my feet. I am in the in-between space and I can’t see the goal.’