Catherine Prats
Mini Bio
Catherine Prats, a visual artist and art historian, has extensive experience in painting and drawing. Having dedicated herself primarily to painting, but especially to drawing, her artistic work is linked to paper, which she treats as palimpsests, blending images and words like incomplete and secret manuscripts. She has been doing printmaking, mainly with burin and aquatint, for 25 years. Owner of the MiniMa Gallery, "Ma" being the Japanese word for space: a mini space for a mini bookstore, particularly miniature and small-format books.
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Petit précis de sagesse populaire (A Short Treatise on Folk Wisdom)
Ou Proverbs et Maximes brings together popular proverbs in 4 volumes, with 3 volumes completed in 2017 and resumed in 2024. They are miniature books dealing with popular wisdom, love, friendship, and weather, with illustrations by Catherine Prats. They are small jewels in red leather.




