Stanko Ropić

Awareness
The color field painting offers a space to practice perception and to experience the presence of active silence and mindfulness. In my work I consider perception to be THE basis for approaching an expanded “understanding” of the world. A new understanding, guided by an unprejudiced view.

Perception
In painting, in doing, in the attentive observation of the picture during the development of the color field, there is always a pole of calm, a movement of attention towards stillness. And an invitation for meditation.

Play & Creativity
As a child, still fully involved in the beauty of simple life on a Slovenian farm, without electric light, but candlelight, no running water, but clear, fresh water from the well and no central heating, but the cozy warmth of a tiled stove (at least in winter) – so under simple living conditions, but in the game, in nature there were breaks with the family when the time came and I was just 6 years old. The desire for some relief, for a little luxury in being there, prompted my mother to go to Germany. The call of the later stepfather, who had 5 children in Germany alone, was too tempting. I lost sight of the two bigger siblings there, my brother came to relatives like me. The little sister was...

Inspired by the study of "Goethe: Color Theory" and the art work of abstract expressionism of die 60´s I found my main subject COLOR. Since then the fascination and curiosity of color has decreased more and more. On the contrary I get a sense of the picturesque in the infinite nuances and action fields of color.

Incarnated in Slovenia and the first steps taken in the vineyards of the Styrian Tuscany / southern foothills of Styria. The small and simple farmhouse, a residence of women (and children), without electricity or running water offered very reason for a little creature so much nature, so much to discover. Then, with the beginning of the next 7 years I was socialized in southern germany . Since drawing was always a passion and my desire to become an artist was soon to be sprouted there in a corner of the soul – this seed is now bearing fruit in the form of Color Awareness Painting or Color Field Painting.

Because it was even then not very easy to take the threshold to the academy, then the path of the Free Art School in Stuttgart, and then the University of Tübingen towards the groundbreaking training and studies at the “Kunst Seminar Metzingen” (now Free College Schwäbisch Hall ) to the formative experience things pert...

2022 - ART FAIR Inssbruck
2022 - CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR PARIS
2021 - Selfportrait / Kunstverein Ebersberg, Germany
2019 - Exhibition GALERIE SCHWABING (Munich)
2018 - Solo Exhibition GALERIE SCHWABING (München)
2017 - New Paintings - Werkstatt Galerie München (Monaco) Germany
2016 - Color Field Painting - Freising - Old Prison (Nov.)
2016 - Color Awareness Painting - Erding Frauenkircherl
2016 - Kunstverein Erding
2015 - Kunstverein Ebersberg (Members Exhibition)
2015 - Kunstverein Erding (Netzwerke)
2015 - Orangerie Munich - Color Field Painting
2014 - Solo Exhibition - Art Club Pony Hof - Munich
2013 - art-helium Munich
2012 - Facettenreich - Hohenbrunn (near Munich)
2011 - Solo Exhibition Kanzlei Baumann - Munich
2011 - Solo Exhibition Lebensraum Kunst Hohenbrunn
2010 - Solo Exhibition - Health Clinic Kaiserslautern

...more on my website: https://stanko.de/vita/