CATALOGUE of ABSTRACT ARTWORKS

Although abstract art is an embodiment of the artistic freedom of expression it remains
bounded within the laws of the painting media. The fundamental structure of each and
every painting contains the author's concentration, sensitivity, contemplation and
experience, which are inseparable from it and trickle through its layers as a contemplative
mystery which the viewer discovers gradually, not at first glance, but through a process of
perception, creative inspection and growth.
The basic and most active agent and content of the artistic creation of Uroš Paternu is the
color in all its range and dynamics, attitudes and relationships, in violations of the rules and
freedom from them with an inner depth and visual form. More than the expressive or
emotive expression of the morphological elements of the creation, Uroš Paternu favors their
contemplative, universal side.
He never uses colors as an empirical, associative, symbolic or evocative visual element,
but rather eludes the mimetic and referential framework of perception. In color he searches
for its dematerialized nature which in a creative process becomes a carefully thought-out
composition, an echo of the artworks that resonates in the viewer's perception and gives the
impression of being a vibrating living organism.
His approach to the bare canvas consists of a ceaseless quest for new solutions, as if
»hunting for prey« during which skill, deep concentration and determination are the decisive
factors catching the eye of the spectator with an independent and perfected visual reality.
The paintings come into being with either thoughtful or impulsive strokes, with smooth or
rough applications of paint. The perceptive depth is created by sophisticated spatial cuts,
color metamorphosis, internal segmentation of the color field and overlapping layers of
color, from underneath of which allusive images from the deeper strata surface into
existence.
Uroš Paternu can be described as a true virtuoso of color and its space in all its variations,
metamorphoses and compositions. He is a master of perfection in actualizing an artwork to
create a newly established harmoniously aesthetic order. »I want to paint living paintings«,
he says and he delivers what he promises. His paintings are full of color dynamics, tensions
and contrasts, characterised by a sophisticated or a robust composition, bursting into life to
the sound of their own music.
By breathing through its colors a painting becomes alive as a perceptive living organism
and develops its own personality and character. A painting becomes and remains a »living
painting«, the fingerprints of the painter's intimate and intuitive view and understanding of
the world.
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