ELENI PRATSI
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About
Born: 1987
Lives and works: Nicosia, Cyprus
Eleni Pratsi is a geometric abstract art painter with strong academical background in fine arts from a young age. Eleni's art practice is identified as Mechanical Art as it uses various unconventional tools, machinery and unique techniques to create her paintings. Her artworks are renowned of their vibrant color schemes, and a dedication to the geometric shape of circle.
Her fascination with the circle, enabled her to master the subject and elevate it to new unexplored artistic territories. Through continuous exploration and the use of non-conventional painting tools, Eleni Pratsi reinvents her artistic practices and visual language, constantly. As the circle has no end, so and Eleni’s one-of-a-kind compositions reach the infinite, with no second artwork being the same in her art series.
Every composition is prior studied and then applied, through specific composition and color systems that the artist has developed. These systems enable the final work to be in a way self-created as it allows the accidental element to exist in her paintings, by trusting the procedure and not altering the end result. Eleni explains, ''It has been a personal choice to approach the artistic creation indirectly, by putting forth the materiality of the medium and tools which are sometimes inappropriate or by using various techniques, an attitude that indicates my play attitude.''
As a true Alchemist of color, Eleni creates new color combinations and palettes, defining and enhancing the impact of her paintings. Her best-known works are with sharply delineated shapes with richly painted vivid colors.
The circles invites the viewers to go within and connect with their inner knowing, and the colors with their emotions. A universal symbol of heaven, perfection, eternity, protection, the Self and Oneness. The zero point where everything starts and returns to, the circle holds the meaning of life and the creation of the universe.
The work and ideology of contemporary artist Bernard Frize, played an important role in Eleni’s work which she identifies with on its approach and implementation.
Eleni Pratsi exhibited her monumental art installation 'Le Chemin de la Couleur', in France for three consecutive years after invitation, and her artworks are permanently exhibited along with works by renowned artist Theodoulos Gregoriou.
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Selected Permanent Collections
Paintings are held in numerous private and corporate collections throughout Cyprus, Hong Kong, USA, UAE, France and UK.
PUBLICATIONS
Eleni Pratsi's work is cited in various publications, in Europe.
EDUCATION
Master Diplôme National Supérieur 2014
d’Arts Plastiques - Distinction
Ecole Nationale Supérieure
des Beaux-arts de Paris, France
with Government Scholarship from the
Republic of Cyprus
Diplôme National d’Arts Plastiques 2012
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux
-arts de Paris, France
Diplôme National d’Arts Plastiques 2010
Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-arts
de Nîmes, France
with Government Scholarship from the
Republic of Cyprus
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Thinking Circular, Is not gallery 2017
Nicosia, Cyprus
Le Chemin de la Couleur, DNSAP 2014
Galerie Droite, Ecole Nationale Supérieure
des Beaux-arts de Paris, France
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Participated in more than 20 group exhibitions, in France, Italy, and Cyprus
ACHIEVEMENTS
First Prize Award in Fine Arts Competition 2012
nominated by French Institute in Cyprus
First Award in Fine Art for 3 consecutive 2005
years, Unified Lyceum of Acropolis, Cyprus
Artist's Statement
''Through my abstract paintings I explore the range of possibilities of a particular issue, inferring that the painting as a questioning. They offer a world that is simple, unblemished and easy to penetrate. I thought my work should consist of absolutely simple images, of paintings emerging directly from materials, tools, technics. I decide on a working mode and the painting simply appears as a result of it.''