Marc Prat

Marc Prat

If there is an essential element for artistic creation is sensitivity, genetic element, innate andnever acquired, which allows man to elevate their creative thinking and that gives him thatspecial 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 masterdifferent artistic disciplines with a high level of quality. As sharing two professional fields asdiverse as painting and music. He is an artist and habitual bass musician accompanying world-class 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 andmaterials processing, and secondly their ability to generate environments to expand -if possible-his pictorial intentionality.

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Marc Prat, Mataró 1971

Individual Exhibitions2012Deux. Mohommed Drissi Gallery. Tangier,Morocco.2011Nexus. Sant Andreu de Llavaneres Museum.Overture. Stone Salon. Argentona Hall.2010Base & Overture. Trinitarium Salon.Vilafranca del Penedès HallOverture. Sant James’ way. Triart gallery.Vigo.2009Trio. Eduard Novellas, Miquel Arnau andMarc Prat. Marratxí Hall. Mallorca.2008DF Encounters. Gothic Salon ArgentonaHall.2005Three artists. Vilassar de Mar culturecenter2004Shirshasan. Càntir museum. Argentona.

2004Espai Hartmann. Mataró.2003Cloisters. Municipality Cultural Center.Mataró.Cloisters. Art Gallery Diàlegs. Mataró.2002Arcadia Café Cultural. Mataró.2001Bases. Das Andere. Mataró.

Collective Exhibitions2011Bancaja awards exhibition. IVAM. Valencia.2011IV Art Biennal Torres García. Mataró.2010IMAC’s Art Fund new acquisitions. Mataró.2010The wedding. 26 artists. Pineda de Mar.Tharrats Fundation. Exposición itinerante.

2008One challenge, one answer. Catalan artistsfrom XIXth century until today. AteneuCaixa Laietana. Mataró.The wedding. 26 artists. Pineda de Mar.2006Jordà, Novellas, M. Petit, M. Prat, St. Lluch.Casal Aliança. Matar3 Young art contest finalists’ exhibition. St.Lluch. CaixaLaietana. Mataró.2004Sant Lluch. Mataró. Selected artist20032nd young art show. Mataró.Sant Lluch young painters. Mataró.2002MostrArt. Argentona.Papers. Diàlegs gallery. Mataró.2001Little formats: Pepe Novellas, Codina-Esteve, Josep Serra, Ismael Cabezudo, MarcPrat. Art Centre gallery. Mataró.1st young art show. Mataró (N-Art).

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Awards and projects20111sr prize: XXV Bancaja Paintingaward. Valencia.Selected: IV Torres García paintingBiennal. Mataró.2006Mataró’s town hall acquires and usesCloister LXVI for its Christmas.2005Awarded: 3 best young artist. SantLluch. Mataró.2004Fringe Festival ,Macaw, China20031st prize: 2nd young art show. Cultureboard, Mataró2002Finalist: 1st on-line art award.Marc3art.Mural painting. Philosophie dept.UAB

Collections

Obertura XX.Llavaneres Museum. Sant Andreu deLlavaneres.

Obertura I.Bancaja Foundation. Valencia.

Indica I.Mataró Museum. IMAC.

Robafaves III.Municipal Institute of Culture.Mataró.Art Fund Mataró Museum.

Claustre LXVI.Mataró Town Hall.Art Fund of Mataró Museum.

Base XIV.Art History DepartamentAutonomous 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 centralperspective that I identify with the people, where all the power lies in the vanishing cloister, individuals astemples and referring to the ability of the human mind to organize reality according to one point of view…

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The straight line is implicit in the perfect proportions of the square and it establishes a dialogue withpainting, much more open and expressive, the rigidity of the square is shaped by painting, driven by a kindof chance, midway between intentionality and an apparent accident.

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Nexus I320x160

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CloisterI-2006180x80

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Cloister II-2006

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Cloister V350x110

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Cloister VI195x195

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Diptic IB195x195

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Diptic CL195x195

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Cloister SM80x50

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Overture XXV50x50

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Bases100x100

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Engraving20x20

Engraving II20x20

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Teotihuacan I, II, VII & XI135x135/150x150

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Kashi IX100x90

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Indica II60x100

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Indica VII120x65

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Indica VI120x65

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When we look at Marc Prat, we find a young artist that also has an extensive career, filled withrelevant awards. Looking at his paintings, although we realize the mastery of technique, ofspaces and volumes, we perceive his particular creative world, with vibrant emotional imagesthat which provide a quiet and ineffable pleasure. His work, replete of domestic securities andintangible, 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 formatsare 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 sensitivitywith which endows his work. We should talk about of a new figuration, even a newexpressionism.The reality is transformed into the world of spirituality in the cloisters of the series Openingsalthough the masks of the Teotihuacan series seem to speak from beyond the grave. This is thesame dialogue between the sacred and the reality that can be seen in the Indicates series withthe Indian buffalos. It seems that the arrows that accompany his works tell us the way and thedisappointments of life. There is no empty painting on Marc Prat’s work. There is always asymbolism. 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 stillshowing the freshness of his personal universe. But they also show his commitment withcreativity, a strong step in favor of art, and the viewer values it.

Àlvar Sáez i Puig

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