Uroš Paternu is a Slovenian abstract painter known for his unique use of color. He studied painting in Slovenia and has had numerous solo and group exhibitions internationally. Paternu sees painting as a way to express inner realities and create "living paintings" through balanced compositions and integration of color. His work aims to reflect on aesthetic and spiritual levels through abstract forms.

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Uroš Paternu developed his recognizable and unique visual language in the nineteen with
the theoretical interpretation of his own creative process, which is characterized by artistic
analysis and systematisation. The basic and most active agent and content of the artistic
creation of Uroš Paternu is the color in all its range and dynamics, attitudes and
relationships, in violations of the rules and freedom from them with an inner depth and visual
form. In color he searches for its dematerialized nature which in a creative process becomes
a carefully thought-out composition, an echo of the artworks that resonates in the viewer's
perception and gives the impression of being a vibrating living organism.
Uroš Paternu was born in 1972 in Kranj, Slovenia. From 1991-1995 he was studing
painting and graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana, Slovenia, where he also
received the Master Degree from abstract painting in the year 2000. In the year 1996 he
received the Slovenian University »Prešeren« Award for the painting »Wet living green«. And
in the same year he also received the First prize for a postgraduate study from Ivan Napotnik
Cultural Centre, Velenje. Only three years after graduating from the Academy he presents
his first independent and comprehensive exhibition in Gallery Keleia, in Slovenia.
In 2015 he was awarded with 2 Prix Award, International Exhibition Art Resilience,
Musée de Peinture de Saint - Frajou, France. On the invitation he become an associate
member of the Art Resilience movement in France.
His work appears in various publications and his paintings are represented in corporate
and private collections. Internationally his paintings have been exhibited in Japan, Italy,
Portugal and France.
He lives and paints in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Europe.

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STATEMENT
Paintings behind the words.
Where words ended, image
starts.
My main volition is to paint
»LIVING PAINTINGS«.
I see the art of painting as a way to
harness thoughts and to ground the
objects and the world around me on
the basis of a dialectical relatonship
between the spiritual-conceptual
and the physical-material, which is
established by transposing the concrete empirical matter into its visual articulation.
Paintings are exposures (»fotos«) of the inside. Their starting point is peace, energy – and their
process engages the accumulation of spontaneous events within the painting itself. This ends when
the result are finally viewed on the surface of the finished work. The consequence of distinction
between source and production is that there IS a moment in which the painting achieves
independent existence, and that it CAN in itself achieve a specific and passive state which surpasses
temporality.
The creative act of painting is not only a journey to the inside
but also a problematisation of reality as a settled form of
picturedness. The function of artistic perception is therefore not
just to be in the world and to search for solutions within one's
own inner reality; at the same time it renders conscious the
dialectical weaving together of certain situational and
phenomenal worlds.
The expansive tendency of colour creates an atmosphere of
sensation which is supported by the inner hierarchy of meaning
created by the form of the image. The colour is the fundamental
vehicle for deeper expressive impetuses. In the painting I'm
looking for its optimal
integration into the color
and compositional context.
Everything must be balanced, and the battlefield on the canvas
should reach its peak, its integration and its placation. A painting
comes alive as an visual organism, has personality and its
character as a living visual reality.
Abstract paintings are analytic-synthetic reflection on the
aesthetic and spiritual level. They are aphorisms of the reality,
and of the truth, feelings of everything that has happened and
will happen, feelings of horror, peace and joy.

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Uroš PATERNU, contemporary abstract painter
Address: Mali vrh pri Prežganju 9c, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Mobile Phone: +(386) 31-328-228
E-mail: upaternu@gmail.com
Web Portfolio: http://uros-paternu.wix.com/uros-paternu
EDUCATION:
1991 — 1995 Bachelor of Fine Art , Academy of Fine Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
1996 — 2000 Master of Fine art, Academy of Fine Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2001 - 1st year of Master’s degree in restoration
AWARDS:
1996 »Prešeren« Award for the painting »Wet living green«
1996 First prize for postgraduate study, Ivan Napotnik Cultural Centre, Velenje
2015 2 Prix Award, International Exhibition Art Resilience, Musée de Peinture
de Saint - Frajou, France
Artist Bibliography:
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
1998 Keleia Gallery, Celje
1999 Bevisa Gallery, Grand Hotel Toplice, Bled
2000 Gallery of the Union of Slovenian Fine Artist's Associations, Ljubljana
2001 Electro Gallery, Elektro Gorenjska, Kranj
2002 Gallery in Prešeren House, Kranj
2004 Libbreria Triestina, Trieste, Italy
2005 Schwarz Gallery, Ljubljana
2006 Ljubljana Castle, Pentagonal Tower, Ljubljana

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GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
1991-1995 Academy of Fine Art, exhibitions of student work, Ljubljana
1996 Ivan Napotnik Cultural Centre, Ilirija Gallery, Velenje
1996 Gallery Keleia, Celje, IX. International Weeks of Painting
1997 Gallery Keleia, Celje, X. International Weeks of Painting
1998 Gallery Keleia, Celje, Exhibition of young artists (Urša Berlot, Edvin
Dobrilovič, Uroš Paternu, Mihael Rudl)
1999 Fužine Castle, Ljubljana XI. International Weeks of Painting
1999 Žula Gallery, Maribor (with Mihael Rudl)
1999 Gallery of the Union of Slovenian Fine Artist's Associations, Ljubljana
(new members)
2002 Sakaide Museum, Sakaide Art Grand Prix, Japan
2004 City Museum and Art Gallery, Piran, ex tempore (selection)
2007 Exhibition in Kud Gallery, Trnfest, Ljubljana
2008 Gallery Jugovic, Ljubljana
2008 Gallery Kresija, Exhibition "Painting", Ljubljana
2010 Gallery Ivan Napotnik, Velenje
2015 International Exhibition Art Resilience, Musée de Peinture de Saint-Frajou,
France
2016 RE-COGNITION, Art Map Project, Ponte de Lima, Portugal
2016 International Exhibition Art Resilience, Musée de Peinture de Saint-Frajou,
France
PUBLICATIONS:
1998 - Paintings of Uros Paternu, The meditative perceiving of Paternu’s paintings, catalog:
Uroš Paternu; Milček Komelj; Tihomir Pinter , Gallery Keleia, Celje, Slovenia

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2000 - Uros Paternu: Paintings, catalog: Uroš Paternu; Milček Komelj; Tihomir
Pinter; Tarcisia Galbiati , Gallery ZDSLU, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2002 - Uros Paternu: Paintings, catalog: Uroš Paternu; Damir Globočnik; Drago Holynski ,
Gallery in Preseren’s museum
2005 - Uros Paternu: Paintings, catalog: Uroš Paternu; Mojca Grmek; Miha Benedičič ,
Gallery Schwarz , Ljubljana, Slovenia
2006 - Uros Paternu: Paintings, catalog: Uroš Paternu, Jadranka Ljubičič, Ljubljana Castle,
Pentagonal Tower, Ljubljana, Slovenia
PERMANENT COLLECTION:
AS Gallery, Adriatic Slovenica d.d. , Ljubljana, Slovenia
MEMBER:
2015 - Art Resilience movement, France
VIDEO:
"INSIDE THE PAINTER'S WORK" Creating,...painting,.. Work in progress..
Abstract artworks 2015
https://youtu.be/rC9MQtcCAVM
“PRIVATE INVESTIGATION OF AN ABSTRACT PAINTING”
https://youtu.be/6emRWkllT34
On-line CATALOGUE OF ABSTRACT ARTWORKS 2013-2015
https://www.yumpu.com/document/view/54874500/catalogue-of-abstract-paintings