Igor Piačka

Igor Piačka was born on the 8^th of October 1962 in the town of Třebíč in the Czech Republic. He studied at the Printmaking and Book Illustration Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava under the supervision of Professor Albín Brunovský. He also attended courses at the Academie Royale des Beaux Arts in Brussels.

His first illustrations were created for the book The Good Soldier Švejk as a semester paper during his studies at the Academy. For more than ten years he taught at the the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava, lecturing the course of figure painting. Currently he is a freelancer and focuses on printmaking, painting, drawing, bookplate and stamp art. Well elaborated drawing combined with expressive colours is typical for his work. Emotional dimension is significant in his illustrations: his figures express their emotions with no embellishment, in manners typical of real life. His illustrations offer much of the story, thrill and dramatic turns. He likes depicting of mythological stories, both antic stories of old China and Slovak myth and legends, which give him opportunities to reflect different characters of human nature.

Author of the text: Mgr. Viera Anoškinová, art historian

Rodina z jedného kolena (D. Dušek, Mladé letá 1991); Nebeská sláva (P. Dobšinský, Ediposs 1991); Príbehy dračích cisárov (Orbis Pictus Istropolitana 1993); Pes baskervillský (A. C. Doyle, Mladé letá 1993); Strigôňove prázdniny (J. Balco, Hevi 1994); Caligula - hrozivý bůh (S. Obermeier, Ikar 1996); Jaskyňa dávnych predkov (B. Lenčová, Matica slovenská 1999); Egypťan Sinuhe (M. Waltari, Ikar 1995); Tisíc a jedna noc, 8. zv. (Ikar 2011); Obrázková kniha bez obrázkov (H. Ch. Andersen, Tatran 2012); Slovenské rozprávky a povesti I., II. (B. Němcová, Tatran 2020); Pygmalión a Galateia (Perfekt 2021).

Slovník českých a slovenských výtvarných umělců 1950 - 2003. XI. Pau - Pop. Ostrava : Výtvarné centrum Chagall, 2003 s. 176-177. ISBN 80-86171-16-7.

Igor Piačka. Bratislava : Jaga group, 2012. 375 s. ISBN 978-80-8076-102-8.

Igor Piačka. Bratislava : Ikar, 2022. 359 s. ISBN 978-80-551-8445-6

Igor Piačka - Ex libris. Praha : G-Design CZ, 2013. 120 s. ISBN 978-80-904701-7-0.

VESELÝ, Marian: Cena Ľudovíta Fullu 2007. In Revue Bibiana. 2007, roč. 14, č. 4, s. 58-59. Dostupné na internete: 

http://www.bibiana.sk/sites/default/files/sites/default/files/digital_archive/rocnikxiv_4_2007.pdf  ISSN 1335-7263.

1993 BIB Children's Jury Prize '93 for the book Príbehy dračích cisárov (Dragon Emperors' Stories)

1999 Most Beautiful Children's Book of the Summer for the book Jaskyňa dávnych predkov (The Cave of Ancient Ancestors)

2007 Ľudovít Fulla Award for illustrations for youth

Igor Piačka