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Painting ”Yellow canoe”:
”I always see this yellow canoe when I run on the riverbank in my home town. The atmosphere is always quiet and reflective. I had many questions. To whom does it belong? Why do I feel that it is so lonely? Waiting for a man?
It has become a true object of my observation.
I hope its viewers will feel exactly as I did when I was looking at the lonely and abandoned canoe on the water. Painting is a language through which painters discover their subjects, and also both lose and find themselves.
A canoe as subject matter is something special on the water, in nature. It is something created by man and inserted into nature.”
BIO:
Pratneker (1973) was born in Maribor, Slovenia, where he currently lives and works. In 2006, he graduated with the thesis on Maribor city landscapes throught history, including his own series of cityscapes. Soon after this, he also started to paint landscape motifs plein air or in the studio. In 2012, he received an MA at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. He participates in numerous group and solo exhibitions at home and abroad. In October 2014 and 2017 he participated with his paintings in the legendary annual juried art exhibitions, Autumn Salon, Paris, France. In February 2015 and 2018 he participated with his two paintings in the other very important legendary annual juried art exhibitions Salon of the French artist in Grand palace, Paris, France.
Artist statement:
“My paintings are landscapes that twist and turn and are tossed about and split apart. Sometimes they merge into sky or water, or disappear off the edge of a cliff. Flooding is a regular occurrence. I view the painting process as a portal to my inner world, a response to environmental and global events; it has evolved out of a deep fascination with the metaphor of landscape and the extensive possibilities of oil paint. By moving the paint over and around a surface, weather and geological processes become agents of change, acting on landforms that are repositories of memory and accumulated experience. I meander through a landscape versus describing it, and capture not a moment but a process – forms, elements and events, moving and changing over time.”
Solo Exhibitions:
»Paintings Vedute of Maribor«, Media Nox Gallery, Maribor (SLO), 2006.
»Paintings of Churches and the Bible«, Gallery ARS SAKRA, Maribor (SLO), 2009.
»Landscapes of Slovenia«, Gallery Ante Trstenjak, Ljutomer (SLO), 2009.
”Colours for Africa”, Baodo in NIL, Graz, Austria, 2010.
”The essence of wood landscapes”, The Mihelič gallery, Ptuj (SLO), 2011.
”Landscapes”, Merkur Gallery, Graz, Austria, 2012.
“Landscapes”, Gallery ArtB, Maribor (SLO), 2013.
“In the landscapes of timelessness”, Gallery Institute Jožef Stefan, Ljubljana (SLO), 2013.
”Images”, Gallery Insula, Izola (SLO), 2014.
”The man in the landscape”, Gallery Castle Negova; Negova (SLO), 2014.
”Rest by the lake”, Gallery Finzgar, Ljubljana (SLO), 2015.
»The human in the landscape«, Gallery Ana, Rogaška Slatina, (SLO), 2015.
”Winter landscapes”, Gallery Gorenje, Velenje, Slovenia, 2015.
”MB u VŽ”, Gallery Centre, Varaždin, Croatia, 2016.
»Paintings «, Gallery Institute Jožef Štefan – Nuclear test reactor, Podgorica (SLO), 2016.
»Happiness in nature«, Gallery Castle Sevnica, Sevnica (SLO), 2016.
”The sunlight in landscapes”, Gallery Kosovelov dom, Sežana, Slovenia (SLO), 2016.
”The Nature”, Gallery Krka, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2017.
”Light, wind and sky”, Kid Kibla gallery, Maribor, Slovenia, 2017.
Group exhibitions:
»Grand prix International Italia«, Salon Specchi, Messina, Italy, 2009 (award Premio technica).
»Lija Lent & La Roggia«, Cecchina, Cordovado, Italy, 2010.
”Art Shopping”, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France, 5., 6. june 2010.
”Arte Padova 2011”, Fairground Padova, Padova, Italy, 2011.
”14th Beijing Art Expo”, China World Trade Center, Beijing, China, 2011.
”Hangzhou Art fair”, Hangzhou Peace International Exhibition Center, China, 2011.
”Journey”, Gallery Korotan, Slovene cultural centre, Vienna, Austria, 2013.
”Salon d´Automne 2014”, Grand Palais, Paris, France, 2014.
»Lanscapes«, Gallery Mona lisa, Paris, France, 2015.
»X. Florence bienale«, Florence, Italy, 2015.
»Art Capital«, Salon of French Artists, Grand Palais, Paris, France, 2015.
»THE PROJECT ROOM«, Gallery Bruno Massa, Manhattan, New York, USA, 2017.
”Salon d´Automne 2017”, Champs-Élysées, Paris, France, 2017.
»Art Capital«, Salon of French Artists, Grand Palais, Paris, France, 2018.
