The Migration series presents 40 paintings of identical format 50 × 70 cm, oil on canvas with the subject of the sea.

The Mediterranean Sea.

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Beyond its contemplative aspect, this theme is a classic subject of painting. Here, it takes on its full contemporary dimension through the current challenges of migratory flows and issues related to global warming.
Black and white brings a very special distance from nature. We are in a relationship to nuance, to tonality. The paintings are titled day after day like an infinite variation, a crossing, a logbook.

MIGRATION 4 - 2023

Migration III - 2021

I wanted to capture in my drawing the dazzling dance, movement, suspension.
In a drawing gesture translate the apparent ease of the dance gesture. My free hand. My mind in action. "
Fast, lightning-fast execution. Instant. One shot.

DANCE 2020

variation around the self-portrait of Quentin la Tour
oil on canvas 73 x 60 cm
2017

Variations

After the series of small formats "Migration" which was executed on the motif, I decided to take up this subject in larger format, but this time, without having my subject in front of me.
This new series is therefore a mental work because these works come directly from my mind, my memories.
Today, the sea is gradually emerging as my main, even unique subject.
I now draw from it all that I have always sought and which touches me deeply in painting;
The shade, the rhythm, the subtle, the light, the simple and the impermanence of the Real, the life brought back to the Elemental, the Essential.
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Immersion 

Bacon

I started from the idea that vacuum is the main part of the universe, yet emptiness is not nothing. I wanted to experiment the limits of painting, taking minimal means, dots and white lines on a black empty background. From close up there are only signs and little by little with distance, the spectator recomposes a complex reality. So I wrote an abbreviation of the Real that questions the place of the look and what is, finally, a picture.

Point Plan Trait - season II

Migration

Voodoo Ritual

Wide spaces. Simple paintings. Fields, field of energy. 

Fields

oil on canvas // small sizes // different subjects

Small sizes

Landscapes

paintings about faces, portraits, figures

Faces

I'm trying to use minimal ways to represent complexity. No color, just white and grey, points and lines. As signs or letters, I develop the drawing of this huge perspective, but it's your eyes which re-build and give the sense to what you see. The further you are, the best you see, this the way of my work. Paradoxal. 

Point Plan Trait

installation 'je_x"

Nothing personal 

clouds

Portraits

extract from the 02 same size paintings series about life and time.

102 series

203 same size paintings, with a white and black text under the picture. Combined, these painting are integrated into a movie. A bridge between video and painting.

original and unique drawing with graphite mine on handmade porcelain plate. High temperature 1280°C. one shot drawing, no erasing possible.

Patrice Palacio