PROKOP IGOR EUGEN | “VANUATU”

PROKOP IGOR EUGEN | “VANUATU”

“Twenty years ago, I traveled regularly to the Pacific Islands. Tahiti, Bora Bora, Uhaine, Raitea, Tonga, New Zealand, and one of my favorites Vanuatu. Beautiful nature, on the islands, under the water, with kind, relaxed people.
The people are rich, but not in the ordinary, material sense.
They are rich because they love their islands; they know the animals, the plants, the sea, and the ocean. So they live with them, with their gods.
Unfortunately, they have been exposed to the evils of civilization, alcohol, and drugs. In addition, many of their islands are threatened by rising ocean levels. The effect of Global Warming”

– Prokop Igor Eugen.

PROKOP IGOR EUGEN

PROKOP IGOR EUGEN, Born in 1953, Lives and works in Visegrad, Budapest, Hungary. Quite a renaissance man, Prokop is driven by his ubiquitous curiosity; he graduated with his studies in various fields, including Dentistry, Biology, Film, Design, and Art. Dedicated to his passion for art, he creates fascinating abstract art with a unique artistic style. He is influenced mainly by his love for nature and aims to convey an important message about climate change and nature protection through his art.

Prokop has exhibited in countless solo and group exhibitions around the globe and was awarded respectable international awards, including the Biennale Leonardo Award for drawings, the London Art Biennale Award, the International Confederation of Art Critics Award, the International Prize Andrea Mantegna, the Chianciano Biennale Award for painting and the GOLD LIST Award by the International Art Market Magazine. In addition, Prokop Igor’s work will be featured in an article in the GOLD LIST Special Edition #7, distribution worldwide, and be published this November 2022.

“I love the sea, the grass, the tree, the animals, the animate and inanimate world. The material. Am I perhaps a narrow-minded materialist? No, the spirit is immaterial, but the
material is the worldly manifestation of the spirit. While I worked as a dental technician,
I had to cast metal and mold wax, plaster, and porcelain. I was not captivated by this narrow range of people.
I studied Biology and drawing and also taught them; I was wandering around in the world, loved the colorful, transparent world of the Cuban seas, the whirling movement of the barracudas, the endless and timeless space of the Mongolian deserts, the chaotic and artistic magic of Indonesia, enjoyed skiing among the peaks of the Elbrus considered even by Reinhold Meissner one of the most amazing natural slopes. I savored exploring Vanuatu, Tonga, Tahiti, and Bora Bora and the friendly people there, their songs, sorrows, faith, and endless respect for their beloved islands.

I enjoyed their unrestricted appetite for beauty, erotica, exuberance, and abundance. I was diving in seas and oceans where lemon, steel-blue, and redfish flashed and gleamed with intense colors never seen before in the tropical sunshine, together with corals and plants. The impenetrable rain forests have presented all the variations of green. And the island of real peace: New Zealand. I love it. Although my homesickness drives me home to Hungary, being here, I do not know where my real home is, and I long to return there. I have traveled around the world and know: it is small, blue, and fragile! This is what I see from a height of 11.000 meters. But through my microscope, I can also sense the cavalcade of similar momentary magic. I am an earthling like so many, seemingly animate and inanimate creatures of God abounding with colors and shapes.
As time passes, I have experienced during my trips that all this is perishing. I do not want my children, my students, and the explorers of the future not to be able to see this magic. I am presenting some fragments from the endless world and giving them to the spectators with love.”

-Prokop Igor Eugen’s words about himself, his philosophy, and his way of understanding the world.

See the full article in Art Market Magazine Issue #75