Raphaël Prenovec
I always wondered if colors could speak and one day I decided to dedicate my life to them.
Biography
The search for happiness is at the heart of my artistic work. My pictorial space and my poetic imagination are nourished by representations, shapes and colors that are endlessly renewed. But always in the same direction and in an ever-renewed tension.
If painting is a source of pleasure, the pleasure it provides is never enough in itself. It is tending towards something that goes beyond the artist and takes its source in an inexhaustible pictorial space. To paint is to experience identity in change, permanence in movement, eternity in time. If the pictorial act is fleeting, it nevertheless inscribes its character in a permanent tension identical to itself. If the work is always linked to a defined and detailed pictorial situation, the creative act remains faithful to itself. It is immutable. Question of artistic power!
As strange as it may seem, I define my work as an exploration of color that I seek to understand. Before re-appropriating them in my pictorial space, the colors belong to the outside world, they exist outside of me. Yet a simple glance is enough for them to penetrate my imagination and invade my thoughts. It was quite natural that I began a dialogue with them since childhood. The realization came when I decided to get involved in painting. For the artist, the material is infinitely rich and varied. And unlike the space of the canvas which is circumscribed, my pictorial space has no limit. It’s dizzying! The colors are always organized in a tension and a logic which respond to the same internal necessity, immutable and obsessive. I made colors into a language and a personal thought. My creative approach consists of transmitting this triple exploratory, dialogical and reflective experience.
Influences
impressionnisme, expressionnisme, néo-expressionnisme, postimpressionnisme, cubisme, art abstrait, art africain
Education
1992-1998 Etudes de Philosophie / Philosophie de l'art / Arts plastiques / DEA de Philosophie / Spécialiste de l'esthétique de Kant / Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France
The artist at work
Solo Expositions
2025 Exposition intitulée "FLEURS D'ARTISTE" du 27/09/2025 au 20/11/2025, MJC de Guipry-Messac Guipry-Messac, Ille et Vilaine, Bretagne, France
2025 Guer, un vent de Liberté (le 14 juin 2025), Exposition pour le 80ème anniversaire de la Libération Guer, Bretagne, Morbihan, France
Collective Expositions
2025 2ème salon des écrivains et des artistes locaux (le 21 juin 2025), Centre culturel Le Belvédère Guer, Bretagne, Morbihan, France
2024 À fleur d'ART, du 13 juillet au 13 août 2024 Guer, à la Chapelle Saint-Thomas, Morbihan, France
2024 SPORTS ARTS 2024 du 8 au 24 novembre 2024, exposition labellisée "Olympiade culturelle" Paris 2024 Suresnes, Région parisienne - Galerie Jean-Pierre RESPAUT, France
2024 SPORTS ARTS 2024 du 13 au 29 septembre 2024, Exposition Labellisée "Olympiade culturelle" Paris 2024 Plessy-Robinson, Région pariesienne, Musée des arts, France
2024 SPORTS ARTS 2024 du 26 juillet au 11 août 2024, Exposition Labellisée "Olympiade culturelle" Paris 2024 Paris, Mairie du 16ème arrondissement, France
2024 SPORTS ARTS 2024 du 13 au 30 juin 2024 (prolongée jusqu'au 21 juillet 2024) Exposition labellisée "Olympiade culturelle" Paris 2024 Boulogne-Billancourt, Région Parisienne, Musée des années 30 - Espace LANDOWSKI, France
