CATALOGUE of ABSTRACT ARTWORKS
We are pleased to present abstract artworks, created between 2013-2015, of a contemporary abstract painter Uroš Paternu, whose paintings show virtuosity of color with an immense power and mastery of contours, shapes and compositions. "Paintings are like a lock of ourselves and only the viewer himself can find his own key. "
We are pleased to present abstract artworks, created between 2013-2015,
of a contemporary abstract painter Uroš Paternu, whose paintings show virtuosity of color with an immense power and mastery of contours, shapes and compositions.
"Paintings are like a lock of ourselves
and only the viewer himself can find his own key. "
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BIOGRAPHY<br />
Uroš Paternu was born on 3. December 1972 in Kranj, Slovenia, Europe. He was already<br />
as a child looking for his own way <strong>of</strong> expression by drawing, painting and sculpturing.<br />
From 1991-1995 he was studying painting and he graduated from the Academy <strong>of</strong> Fine<br />
Arts in Ljubljana, Slovenia, where he also received the Master Degree in painting in the year<br />
2000. In the year 1996 he received the National Slovenian »Prešeren« Award for the<br />
painting »Wet living green«. And in the same year he also received the First prize for a<br />
postgraduate study from Ivan Napotnik Cultural Centre, Velenje. Only three years after<br />
graduating from the Academy he presents his first independent and comprehensive<br />
exhibition in Gallery Keleia, in Slovenia.<br />
In 2015 he was awarded with 2 Prix Award, International Exhibition Art Resilience, Musée<br />
de Peinture de Saint - Frajou, France. On their invitation he become an associate member <strong>of</strong><br />
the Art Resilience movement in France.<br />
His work appears in various publications and his paintings are represented in corporate<br />
and private collections. Internationally his paintings have been exhibited in Japan, Italy,<br />
France, England and Portugal.<br />
He lives and paints in Ljubljana, Slovenia.<br />
In these post-digital times when the world is inundated with visual impressions <strong>of</strong> flashing<br />
images, in their hollow and perpetually formative existence, the artworks <strong>of</strong> Uroš Paternu<br />
are like islands that attract the viewer with their inner content and open up new questions<br />
which allow the viewer to meet himself face to face. The paintings are like mirrors that<br />
reflect his spirit, they are an initiation into spiritual concentration and ethical attitude. They<br />
are feelings <strong>of</strong> everything that has happened and will happen, feelings <strong>of</strong> horror, peace and<br />
joy.<br />
Uroš Paternu developed his recognizable and unique visual language in the nineteen with<br />
the theoretical interpretation <strong>of</strong> his own creative process, which is characterized by artistic<br />
analysis and systematisation.<br />
The artist sees the art <strong>of</strong> painting as a way to harness his thoughts and to ground the<br />
objects and the world around him on the basis <strong>of</strong> a dialectic relationship between the<br />
spiritual-conceptual and the physical-material, which is established by transposing the<br />
concrete empirical matter into its visual articulation. This passage from the physical to the<br />
spiritual, from immanence to transcendence, from observing to seeing, from reflexion to<br />
catharsis, starts with the first stroke <strong>of</strong> the brush and lives on in the viewer's perception.<br />
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