(Innsbruck 1932–2011 Vienna)
“Puglia marina 6”, signed, dated Prachensky 78, as well as signed and dated Markus Prachensky 1979 on bend canvas on the edge, titled on the stretcher, acrylic on canvas, 130 x 160 cm, framed, (K)

… In the summer he was again in Apulia, but this time saw the entire coastal region from Gargano down to Brindisi, from the Murge, a limestone plateau, to the sea. ‘The point’ from which he wanted to start his new enterprise ‘was three hundred kilometres long’. He found previous achievements to be a mere solution of partial aspects and wanted too further process a much larger entity. This needed its own gestation period and groundwork. He called this series of paintings Puglia Marina, where the Italian word marina denotes both a coastal region and a so-called seapiece, or marine, in earlier paintings. Puglia Marina was not a completely new approach; rather, it drew the layers of S. Angelo Duke closer together, arranged the circles closer to the centre, spread laterally further outwards (in horizontal format, as is appropriate for a seapiece), offering a solution that is not simpler but perhaps easier to perceive, the validity of which is more general.
The orange colours have become an increasingly brighter and harder yellow, the clearly defined colours are equal to each other in importance, and the balance seems definitive, in keeping with the age of a landscape.
From an essay by Wolfgang Fleischer 1978

Provenance:
Viennese Collection