Jan Kriz wrote the text for this catalogue and Richard Drury provided an English summary. Between 1957 and 1963 Ovcacek studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava (Slovakia) under professor Peter Matejka. He also studied at Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague under professor Antoni­n Kybal (1962). Already at that time he was strongly involved in graphic art and started to use it in order to express his own artistic potential. Together with MiloÅ¡ Urbasek, friend and fellow artist, Ovcacek founded, in 1960, an independent group of artists called "Konfrontace". This artistic group explored and dealt with informel, one of the then attractive form of abstract art. From the beginning of 1960's, Ovcacek kept close contacts with Polish artists, those contacts continued even after the occupation of the Czechoslovakia by the Warsaw pact forces in 1968. He established very friendly relations especially with Marian Bogusz, the principal protagonist of Polish art scene of that period, as well as with his friends. He also kept contacts with similarly oriented artists from other countries. In 1967, Ovcacek co-founded the Club of Concretists. After that, he commenced to devote himself intensively to the serigraphic art, that being then popular especially in United States (pop-art and op-art). His serigraphic works often contain and mix classical scripture, once-and-future signs and human, often very erotic and suggestive, figures. Ovcacek criticised strongly the occupation of the Czechoslovakia in 1968. He took part in a lot of dissident and illegal activities. His series Lesson by Great A was created immediately after the invasion of Warsaw Pact armed forces to Prague, in the moment when the censorship has not yet been firmly re-established. This series of artworks thus had the chance to be published in Czechoslovak magazine "Literarni­ listy" and in some other periodicals in the Czechoslovakia and abroad. Also, similarly to e.g. the former Czechoslovak and Czech president Vaclav Havel, Eduard Ovcacek is one of the signatories of Charta 77. At the end of 20th century Ovcacek organised installations and evenements with burning ropes (e.g. evenement "Zastaveni½ cas II., Trebi­c, 1994). Currently he is focused on, examines and improves the possibilities of use of digital technology in serigraphy. Sometimes he exploits his own older themes that he had already applied under another technique earlier. His favourite number is "3", i.e. the number prevailing in his date of birth. Ovcacek uses this number very often and in various formats and shapes in his artworks, e.g.: serigraphs 333 B or Trojky (2007) or oil on canvas 333 (1968). Eduard Ovcacek works as professor at the College of Arts of Ostrava University (Czech Republic) and keeps contacts with academic fellows namely in Slovakia and Poland (above all, universities in Katowice, Krakow and Lodz). He lives in Ostrava (Czech Republic) and continues intensively in his artistic activities. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.