Transcedence | Marc Prat
Maastricht From January 30, 2021 to March 3, 2021
In these times of worldwide lockdowns we see a search for meaning. Beyond our consumer society and hunger for instant satisfaction, a need arises for giving meaning to life and the things we do. Shouldn’t there be more to life than buying cheap fashionable decoration, going on city trips and being busy all the time? Many are investigating what is really important to us. Is it this cheaply produced sweater reflecting yet another new fashion trend? Or could it be something that remains important for a longer time, something that stays and brings joy time and again, whenever we see it?
For Marc Prat, this search for an inner soul is visible in all of his work. Since he started as a professional visual artist in the 1990’s, his work consists of series that relate to a search for our feelings and emotions. We have seen studies of the body, cloisters, masks and animals and since 2013 a series of works around the Absis, the part of a temple or church where the altar is located.
In Marc Prat’s interpretations, the Absis as such is depicted without the distraction of any religious elements, thus emphasizing the raw structure and its impression of space and giving room to our own thoughts.
The way he works with light and dark, the dripping paint and charcoal create a work in which you can almost literally disappear. Each of the works is different, the emotion they provoke is what’s binding them together as a series.
As the well-known Spanish art critic Pere Pasqual said it in his blog in December 2020:
“MARC PRAT has reached a new peak in his artistic career. His work consists of absolutely humanistic images, because in each of his works, regardless of the subject, he confronts us with man and his inner questions.”
5 new large works will be presented, together with a series of screen-prints made in 2019 and the etching of the Absis made in 2015.
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Kapoenstraat 29
6211 KV, Maastricht
Netherlands
+31(0)637403499
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Exhibitions in Maastricht
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Naphta Tribes
From June 23, 2023 to July 30, 2023
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Window Shopping
From November 26, 2021 to January 22, 2022
PontArte
Entre'Acte | Gabriele Fettolini
From November 5, 2021 to November 30, 2021
PontArte
Back Room | Pool Series Dorine van der Ploeg
From May 18, 2021 to June 7, 2021
PontArte
Frontroom | Ana Garcia
From May 4, 2021 to May 23, 2021
PontArte
Witness | Sjaak Korsten
From April 3, 2021 to May 1, 2021
PontArte
Winter Salon
From December 17, 2020 to January 24, 2021
PontArte
Pandemic Spring | Alke Schmidt
From November 7, 2020 to December 12, 2020
PontArte
Herbarium | Willibrord Nota
From August 22, 2020 to September 19, 2020
PontArte
Re-Vision
From June 6, 2020 to June 28, 2020