


Excerpt from the introduction to the exhibition Parathymia, published in the printed edition of the exhibition catalogue.


Ivo Prančič
He was born on the 2nd of June 1955 in Ljubljana. He studied painting at the University of Ljubljana Academy of Fine Arts (ALU) under professor Gustav Gnamuš, where he graduated in 1982 and also completed his postgraduate studies in 1984.
He went on numerous study trips. In addition to solo presentations in all major galleries in Slovenia, he is a regular guest of the exhibition spaces of Austria, especially in the Carinthia region. He also exhibited in Croatia and Montenegro and in group exhibitions in France and China, and also at the Zala Gallery and at the Cankarjev dom in Ljubljana. In 1990, he travelled through Italy with a scholarship from the Moša Pijade Fund. He spent several months in Paris, in 1991 and 1999 as an artist in residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts, and in 1993 with a scholarship from the French government.
As a freelance artist, he works and lives in Ljubljana.