Renato Percan was born in 1936 in Trget, Labin region. In 1966 he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, in the class of Professor Albert Kinert.

 In the period between 1967 and 1972 he worked as art teacher in the elementary school in Medulin and in Gymnasium for students of pedagogical curriculum in Pula.

 In 1978 Renato Percan became a member of the Croatian Freelance Artists’ Association [‘Hrvatska zajednica samostalnih umjetnika – HZSU’], and since then painting and decorating became the walk of his life.

Renato Percan exhibited at numerous one-man and group exhibitions in Croatia and abroad. He received 20 prizes and awards for his work.

 An artistic giant of enormous spiritual power populated the world with uncounted marvellous creatures of his imagination.

In transforming imagination into reality, Percan is overwhelmed with passion. As every other genuine creator he does not pander the taste and expectations of the audience, but he follows his own inner spiritual direction in shaping the cultural landscape, opening our view toward a new and marvellous world created by the painter.

Two monographs on Renato Percan and his work have been published:

• Depolo, Josip (1997.), Renato Percan – trideset stvaralačkih godina, 1966.-1996., Buzet: Reprezent, (preface by Tonko Maroević)

• Valušek, Berislav; Ostojić-Cvajner, Gorka i Glavan, Darko (2007), Renato Percan crtač, Pazin: Matica hrvatska Pazin

Address:

Fucane 25

52203 Medulin

Phone:

385 52 576 207

Renato Percan is today certainly “the most surrealistic” painter, unlike many artists of the same trend he is a masterfully perfect drawer, which is one of the basic prerequisites in “reading” a surrealistic message.

His narration is correct and comprehensible, it is a “journalistic” language of Kafka expressed by the purest art quality. The enigma in his work is not hidden in the art materia, it is revealed from the “veristic” expression, behind the screen of “literature”, whereas his art does not lose any of its artistic qualities... which undoubtedly confirms a painter who articulates his drawing voice with no need to hide behind obscurity.

... without restraint he demonstrates high levels of his metier perfection, his impressive masterly skills of a drawer...

... Renato Percan does not only disclose a perfectionist, a drawer of long and patient preparations, but he is also a promoter of the new surrealism... He is infallible in applying all rules of drawing; he is always trying to reach a margin of possible by pencil and ink and often courageously surpasses it, surprising us by what is well beyond usual drawing standards…

Josip Depolo, Monograph on RENATO PERCAN (1997)