Antonio Patania

I've lived multiple lives in my life. I have been involved in conservative restoration, artistic ceramics, interior decoration, and more.
But my most intimate passion has always been and still is her: painting.
Nothing, like painting, hunts me and heals me.

Artistic practice
As a support I prefer canvas, but I also love the 600 gram cotton cardboard. All my paintings are in oil, then, according to the type of support, I apply oxides or colored earths with different techniques, with wax masking. Sometimes I use the Gold Leaf, a technique that I have mastered thanks to my experience in restoration and gilding. Waxes, friezes, glazes, brush strokes obscure the naked reality, like a sort of "Maya veil".

Artistic influences
I grew up among the Paladins, the epic heroes represented in the Sicilian traditional puppet theater. When I was a child, in the darkness I saw them move, I heard them talking to each other, I imagined they had a life parallel to ours. The paintings of this genre enhance the epic nature of everyday life: each of us "wears" a breastplate to protect ourselves and we all hold a sword to strike others. We also need the helmet to ignore everything that is not part of our small court. The Paladins represent the h...

I was born and raised in a Sicilian family of artists. Graduated as a master of art in 1985, as a child I painted the bottoms of chairs. I was the owner of my Facs's Atelier in Catania and co-founder of the La Ragnatela cultural association in Bologna. I dealt with conservative restoration, decorative, creative and architectural ceramics. In my story, painting is always in the background and today it returns to the foreground, with great urgency and passion.

I exhibited my works in my Atelier in Catania, in the headquarters of the La Ragnatela Cultural Association and in the places made available by the Municipality. In Modena I exhibited in various street demonstrations.