Mari Prete is an outstanding artist who specializes on the art of photography. Born and raised in Armenia, she graduated for theater and film from Yerevan State University. Today and the internationally active artist lives in Europe. Mari Prete and her team go on the wishes and ideas of each customer, both the format and the finish.
The motifs of the photographer are released in limited editions, but just about every object develops through the individually chosen finish to a unique specimen. So far, the artist was considered according to this implementation and customer service as a recommendation for Connoisseurs, whereby her works can be found in some internationally renowned collections.
Art is for there for everyone
We are pleased to include the artist now exactly at the point of her career in our repertoire and to exhibit, where she decides to present her works to the wider public. The claim "Art is for all there and must also for all be accessible" follow not only museums and large institutions of art, but of course also auction houses, galleries, artist and all those who want to convey art - we agree. Because investing in high-quality art, making it buy and sell , is one side of the art trade. But to open the art experiencable, approachable and understandable for art enthusiasts, is an equally important side. We would like to take on this task as an auction house and gallery now and are pleased to invite you!
In the upcoming exhibition "The Art of Photography - Fine Art Photography by Mari Prete " we curate together with the artist a bouquet of photographic directions within which the artist moves. Selected works of these categories will each be presented in a wide variety of formats and finishes, so you can imagine the selection and diversity of the artistic oeuvre.
So works of the Street series are mostly kept in classic black and white photography only isolated elements of these works are partially colored to bring them out artistically. "The Lines" addresses the ubiquitous understanding of space articulated through precise lines in our surroundings. "On The Other Side Of The Glass I" offers the possibility of self-reflection in the midst of urban bustle, through reflections mannequins. Almost experimentally, the artist addresses her own translates elements of other genres into her photography. In the bar view "Good Times" can be seen on closer inspection, the technique of "Peinture en grisaille", in which gray tones harmonize with each other until they imitate stone or even marble in the finest painting. The painterly glazing technique, in which wafer-thin layers of paint are applied on top of each other, was already used to create medieval altars, in museum works of the Renaissance Dutch masterpieces. and on on and on works and that Mari Prete and
The depiction of elaborate baroque showpieces is found among her "Food Portraits" not . Rather, it the artist manages to capture the inner essence, the character of our contemporary food, how for example, a sliced mushroom. At the same time, the exquisite details, delicate nuances, subtleties and surface textures come to the fore. Remarkably, in object "Mushroom", that it there is no ordinary centering of the mushroom, but a view slightly shifted to the left. This offers the option to pay more attention on to one's own perspective, to look even at supposedly small things more closely and to recognize the beauty in them. The color-intensive color of the leek, taken in cross-section, is underlined by the excellent choice of the unconventionally round design. Here, too, manifests the special approach of the artist, which it is about fine balancing of the personal human gaze and technical finesse.
Elements of life
In the presented works of the group of works "Flower Portraits" an actual portrait of a flower is created, completely in the traditional manner of human portrait painting or photography in front of often monochrome or slightly iridescent backgrounds. However, it are in no way photomontages intended to embellish, idealize, alienate or distort. The essence of the motives forms itself from everyday circumstances and natural processes, which are set in composition, form and coloring, light and shade, as well as depth effect already at the beginning of each photography and by the professional Touch-up of the artist are worked out. Through works, how "My Love" or "Golden Shadow" becomes clear to the viewer, that the decay just as how the growth of a tender bud, both, is a beautiful element of life.
The diverse characteristics of a plant figure are staged in the photographs "Salade d'Humeur", "Euphoria II" and "Rainer K.", the sensitive sensibility and aesthetics of nature can be read in "The Heart" and "Fake Tears" and the viewer is carried away by motifs, how "In My Dreams II", into atmospheric photographs that could come from another world.
The beauty in detail
The works of the artist Mari Prete help to sharpen the own view, in order to perceive the beauty also in small moments, small things, how an almost completely withered bloom. In order on personal way for to be able to interpret and independently to understand, that it things on the world gives, for which it is worthwhile to live. Because, how often we humans it also try, so is the life in the end not plannable and also not predictable. Which is why a constructed image could never carry such power, how one that has emerged from the natural (art historically speaking "fertile") moment.
it are simple, clear and thereby so profound, touching and vivid motifs that show the viewer the most diverse aspects of life: Joie de vivre, love, self-esteem, confidence, beauty and much more. Mari Prete has found through her work a contemporary and light form in which precisely this process imbued with freedom - which is what art is all about - can be found.
Vernissage on 6. Mai
We invite you now already to the vernissage, in our Auction house in Essen Bredeney, on 6. Mai and are pleased to announce, that the artist will be present! Furthermore, we exhibit until 15. June new work compositions as well as works, which are already in renowned Swiss collections.
Mari Prete - The art of photography
- WETTMANN Art Auctions
Bredeneyer Str. 119-121, 45133 Essen - Vernissage on 6. Mai from 16 watch
- Exhibition until 15. June
