CATALOGUE of ABSTRACT ARTWORKS

BECOME A COLLECTOR
Art, at times quiet, at times screaming, whether we like it or not, is an eternal companion
of human existence and progression; it is an expression of the spirit and the creative
moment of imagination. Being a part of this culture, we can only be richer for these
experiences.
A work of art is not intended for consumersatisfaction. Rather, it is an artifact which
grows together with the soul of the viewer, the capital into which we invest our mental and
ethical views.
Any investment in spiritual art bears interest in personal growth. If our gaze becomes
conscious and deliberate, we become privy to a story, whilst we must not forget that we are
ourselves the creator of this narrative; the painting serves merely as leverage to our
thoughts.
Paintings are like children. When they are not there, we miss them; and when they are,
they attract us, they entreat us, they scream and cajole or they speak to us speechlessly by
their sheer existence. Paintings enchant us with the colors of life, inner structures and
integrated composition. They conceal a testimony which becomes individualized and
personified with the viewer.
The invaluable and original works of art of Uros Paternu point to the aurhor's
inexhaustible power of expression. His paintings – masterful renditions performed within the
lawfulness of artistic reality – are testimony to the richness of spirit and become
autonomous fields, vivid images of creative thinking.
The works of art, which reflect the temperament of the author, are an expression of
vitality and are in sharp contrast to today's empty cultureheedless of the questions on the
meaning of life, the pursuit of order, harmony and aesthetics, which culminate in a
responsible ethicattitude of man towards his fellow-men.
An abstract painting requires that the viewer approaches it, that he stands before it – that
is to saythe original not a reproduction. The abstract paintings of Uros Paternu allow the
sopisticated viewer to enter into a world of self-reflection or self-interpretation where he –
as a spectator from the outside– observes himself and analyses his own thoughts.
His gaze becomes creative, his sensiblity awakens, a visual game is set in motion. Our
imagination has no limits – we can imagine something which we have never seen before or
something outside the realm of our immediate experience.
At the level of individualisation a kind of self-awareness arises as a process of controling
one's own thoughts. When our awareness couples with our memories, which in turn are
bound by our experiences and culture, it is our thinking that we are able to control, analyse,
direct and change. To be able to reap the fruits of this realization we should use our
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