Contemporary painter & gravure artist
ARTRN GALLERY
Velimir Trnski "ARTRN" is an internationally recognized and renowned painter with 185 exhibitions to his name. He is the recipient of several prestigious awards for painting and drawing.
Paintings
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Drawings
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Gravures & Graphics
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About the Artist
Velimir Trnski “ARTRN”
Velimir Trnski was born in Nord Croatia.
Having studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb (1967–1971), he did postgraduate studies in graphic art at the Rietveld Academy of Amsterdam. Through constant travelling he enriched his knowledge by getting acquainted with old painting techniques which he skillfully placed as a counterpoint to new materials and ideas.
Trnski says that he paints his own life. On his portraits, actual or fictitious, he doesn’t primarily deal with female faces, but he makes a contrast between the thick substance of colour and manifold transparent coats of paint. The drawing that functions as the skeleton of the composition consists of lines in relief and ornaments, which are later covered by thin layers of paint or gold leaves.
He has so far 185 one-man and group exhibitions in Austria, Belgium, Germany, Holland, Croatia, USA, former Yugoslavia and France. Since 1985, he lives and works in Paris and in Croatia.
Awards
2020 · Paris
LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR DES ARTS — European Painting Award
2020 · Paris
MAXIME JUAN Award at the drawing exhibition at the Grand Palais
2020 · Paris
MENTION at the exhibition ART CAPITAL, Grand Palais
2021 · Paris
MARYSE ANDERBOUHR Award, Taylor Foundation
Collections & Memberships
His paintings can be found in all major cities around the world.
The largest collection — 41 works — is held by a collector from The Hague.
First monograph published by the Romanet Gallery, Paris (1988).
Second monograph accompanied a retrospective marking his 40-year career, City Museum of Varaždin.
An Austrian collector from Eissenstadt acquired an entire cycle of 24 large-scale drawings.
Member of HDLU (Croatian Association of Artists) since 1972.
Member of La Maison des Artistes and the Taylor Foundation, Paris, since 1989.
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