Mario Prassinos was born in Constantinople in 1916. In 1922, the family moved to France, first to Nanterre and then to Paris.<\/p>\n
From an early age, Mario Prassinos was immersed in the Surrealist milieu. There, he met avant-garde writers and painters: Andr\u00e9 Breton, Ren\u00e9 Char, Max Ernst, Jean Arp, Marchel Duchamp.<\/p>\n
After a brief stint in Cl\u00e9ment Sevreau’s studio, he painted his first Surrealist canvases. He broke away from this movement to follow the path of abstract painting for a time (1947-1949), under the influence of Alberto Magnelli. <\/p>\n
1951 marked a turning point for Prassinos. He moved to Eygali\u00e8res, seduced by the location. Here, for the next thirty-four years, he would engage in a daily dialogue with the superb landscapes of the Alpilles. <\/p>\n
It was also during this period that the major series of his work took shape: \u201cles Alpilles\u201d, \u201cles Paysages grecs\u201d, \u201cles Arbres\u201d, \u201cles Bouquets\u201d, \u201cles s\u00e9ries de portraits\u201d, \u201cles Suaires\u201d.<\/p>\n
Prassinos’ entire body of work is underpinned by his distinctive style, which favors the systematic use of black and white.<\/p>\n
A multi-faceted artist: writer (\u201cla colline tatou\u00e9e\u201d Grasset 1983), tapestry cartonnier (over 150 cartoons created for Aubusson from 1951 to 1975), illustrator (36 etchings for Jean Paul Sartre’s \u201cle mur\u201d), engraver for the famous NRF collection, costume designer for the theater, Mario Prassinos’ singular work eludes any attempt at classification, making him one of the major artists of the post-war period.<\/p>\n
Mario Prassinos’ works have been shown in numerous group and solo exhibitions and are included in public collections: Museums: National d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris \/ Arles, Limoges, Grenoble, Marseille, S\u00e8te, Vienne, Bruxelles, London, Athens, The Hague, Lausanne, Chicago, New York ….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":759,"featured_media":0,"template":"","taxo_year_participe":[136],"class_list":["post-106529","artist","type-artist","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n