Ivo Prančič’s painting technique, with his horizontally or vertically strung colour layering, functions like a spiritual symphony. It lives on the basic lines of a geometrical sketch, shivering within its tangible substance and therewith carrying associations of the world’s panoramas in their primal expression – an expression that calls upon the dreams of terrestrial history to arrive on the shores of consciousness. The artist creates paintings that started off as conventional abstract canvases with classic colour selections and then evolved into triptychs, five-part composed creations, embedded with the author’s creative expression – always authorial in their nature and always fresh. Prančič developed pillow forms and introduced them at a renowned exhibition in 1991, which was held in the monastery church in Kostanjevica on the Krka River. Torn-up linen straps and different types of collages, newspaper and brush or design interventions have become co-creators of various expressions in paintings, in terms of their expressive presentation as well as their inner meanings. Prančič is one of the central artistic personalities of his generation in Slovenia. Ivo Prančič (born in 1955 in Ljubljana) graduated in 1982 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana under the mentorship of Professor Gustav Gnamuš and in 1984 completed his postgraduate specialization in painting. In 1996, he received a scholarship from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation in New York and the Prešeren Fund Award for his creativity in 2001. Prančič lives and works in Ljubljana.
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