Marc Prat
Marc Prat
If there is an essential element for artistic creation is sensitivity, genetic element, innate and never acquired, which allows man to elevate their creative thinking and that gives him that special tone that will give way to his conversion into a work of art. Marc Prat is rolling into this sensitivity. His creative sense is such that allows him to master different artistic disciplines with a high level of quality. As sharing two professional fields as diverse as painting and music. He is an artist and habitual bass musician accompanying worldclass singers. His sensitivity, regarding the pictorial field, develops in the skillful combination of two factors: his technical mastery, with a particular impact on the proper use of drawing, color and materials processing, and secondly their ability to generate environments to expand -if possiblehis pictorial intentionality. Pere Pascual
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Marc Prat Marc Prat, Mataró 1971 Individual Exhibitions 2012 Deux. Mohommed Drissi Gallery. Tangier, Morocco. 2011 Nexus. Sant Andreu de Llavaneres Museum. Overture. Stone Salon. Argentona Hall. 2010 Base & Overture. Trinitarium Salon. Vilafranca del Penedès Hall Overture. Sant James’ way. Triart gallery. Vigo. 2009 Trio. Eduard Novellas, Miquel Arnau and Marc Prat. Marratxí Hall. Mallorca. 2008 DF Encounters. Gothic Salon Argentona Hall. 2005 Three artists. Vilassar de Mar culture center 2004 Shirshasan. Càntir museum. Argentona.
2004 Espai Hartmann. Mataró. 2003 Cloisters. Municipality Cultural Center. Mataró. Cloisters. Art Gallery Diàlegs. Mataró. 2002 Arcadia Café Cultural. Mataró. 2001 Bases. Das Andere. Mataró. Collective Exhibitions 2011 Bancaja awards exhibition. IVAM. Valencia. 2011 IV Art Biennal Torres García. Mataró. 2010 IMAC’s Art Fund new acquisitions. Mataró. 2010 The wedding. 26 artists. Pineda de Mar. Tharrats Fundation. Exposición itinerante.
2008 One challenge, one answer. Catalan artists from XIXth century until today. Ateneu Caixa Laietana. Mataró. The wedding. 26 artists. Pineda de Mar. 2006 Jordà, Novellas, M. Petit, M. Prat, St. Lluch. Casal Aliança. Matar 3 Young art contest finalists’ exhibition. St. Lluch. CaixaLaietana. Mataró. 2004 Sant Lluch. Mataró. Selected artist 2003 2nd young art show. Mataró. Sant Lluch young painters. Mataró. 2002 MostrArt. Argentona. Papers. Diàlegs gallery. Mataró. 2001 Little formats: Pepe Novellas, CodinaEsteve, Josep Serra, Ismael Cabezudo, Marc Prat. Art Centre gallery. Mataró. 1st young art show. Mataró (N-Art).
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Marc Prat Awards and projects 2011 1sr prize: XXV Bancaja Painting award. Valencia. Selected: IV Torres García painting Biennal. Mataró. 2006 Mataró’s town hall acquires and uses Cloister LXVI for its Christmas. 2005 Awarded: 3 best young artist. Sant Lluch. Mataró. 2004 Fringe Festival ,Macaw, China 2003 1st prize: 2nd young art show. Culture board, Mataró 2002 Finalist: 1st on-line art award. Marc3art. Mural painting. Philosophie dept. UAB
Collections Obertura XX. Llavaneres Museum. Sant Andreu de Llavaneres. Obertura I. Bancaja Foundation. Valencia. Indica I. Mataró Museum. IMAC. Robafaves III. Municipal Institute of Mataró. Art Fund Mataró Museum.
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Claustre LXVI. Mataró Town Hall. Art Fund of Mataró Museum. Base XIV. Art History Departament Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB)
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Marc Prat
Nexus is a series of aesthetic considerations on the concept of concentration. It turns around a central perspective that I identify with the people, where all the power lies in the vanishing cloister, individuals as temples and referring to the ability of the human mind to organize reality according to one point of view‌ Marc Prat
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The straight line is implicit in the perfect proportions of the square and it establishes a dialogue with painting, much more open and expressive, the rigidity of the square is shaped by painting, driven by a kind of chance, midway between intentionality and an apparent accident. Marc Prat
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Nexus I 320x160 10
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CloisterI-2006 180x80
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Cloister II-2006
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Cloister V 350x110
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Cloister VI 195x195
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Diptic IB 195x195
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Diptic CL 195x195
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Cloister SM 80x50
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Overture XXV 50x50 18
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Bases 100x100 19
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Engraving 20x20
Engraving II 20x20
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Teotihuacan I, II, VII & XI 135x135/150x150 21
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Kashi IX 100x90
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Indica II 60x100
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Indica VII 120x65 24
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Indica VI 120x65 25
Marc Prat When we look at Marc Prat, we find a young artist that also has an extensive career, filled with relevant awards. Looking at his paintings, although we realize the mastery of technique, of spaces and volumes, we perceive his particular creative world, with vibrant emotional images that which provide a quiet and ineffable pleasure. His work, replete of domestic securities and intangible, makes us rise to the surface of the signs of his secret and personal world. Prat can play with large formats and make them accessible, close to the viewer. These formats are characterized by their tones and subtlety, by adding nothing more of that strictly necessary. One of Prat’s virtues, possibly inherited from his musical training, is this great deal of sensitivity with which endows his work. We should talk about of a new figuration, even a new expressionism. The reality is transformed into the world of spirituality in the cloisters of the series Openings although the masks of the Teotihuacan series seem to speak from beyond the grave. This is the same dialogue between the sacred and the reality that can be seen in the Indicates series with the Indian buffalos. It seems that the arrows that accompany his works tell us the way and the disappointments of life. There is no empty painting on Marc Prat’s work. There is always a symbolism. It transports us to a shared internal experience, a gesture that, in essence, humanizes his work. In every work of Marc Prat there is a small part of this great artist. His creations are still showing the freshness of his personal universe. But they also show his commitment with creativity, a strong step in favor of art, and the viewer values it. Àlvar Sáez i Puig
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