The artist of Bosnian origin Stipo Pranyko (Jajce, 1930) has died in the German city of Munich. He developed an intense but solitary artistic activity in the service of a naked and essentialist work, formally linked to the so-called "poor art", where the use of everyday and precarious, ignoble materials, within reach or of common use, led to the construction of a rehumanized art, close to the evolution of intimate life.
He arrived in Lanzarote in 1989 after having lived for many years in Italy, Germany and France and remained on the island until 2012, when he decided to undertake a final trip to the German city of Munich. He was a complete artist, constantly motivated to search for new forms of expression, careless of everyday things and daily news, and only concerned with his activity as an artist. His latest work, his textile works and latest drawings - schematic, presentative, simple - raise the return to values and priority needs: the renunciation of color, aseptic white and light. The worn texture of his gauzes and cloths, the rust of the objects found and incorporated into his works as traces of the passage of time or the rough and fragile finish of the artisan manufacture, are some of the signs that constitute the basis of his plastic activity.
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