Patrick Santoni

I am a polymorphous artist, if painting is my favorite medium, I also use other media at my disposal: drawing, photography, digital art, sculpture and video where music is present. Each work is approached done by an intellectual and plastic reflection, photos, sketches, notes, the result is a model of the desired plastic image, realized on Photoshop. The execution is mainly done in acrylic or oil. My work is strongly steeped in my Corsican origins, the wild waste dumps, the abandoned villages, the ruins, the invading scrub, the dust of the summer, theses images are strongly printed in my unconscious, but also the exile, the departure and the return, which characterizes us the Corsicans.
My works today are mostly urban landscapes drawn from television, photographic imagery, my travels and Google Maps. I do a research work, a kind of inventory of our human society with my particular vision. My work reflects the noisy and uncertain silence of our time, I question my contemporaries about our paradoxes our choices of life for the future, by submitting images of the past or present imprinted with human presence. These images are most often related to childhood, hopes born in childhood and disillusionment of adulthood.

Santoni Patrick is a Corsican artist born in 1964, working in painting, video and mixed media. He lives and works in France. He studied at the ESBA in Angers (« Higher School of Fine Arts » of Angers, France), from 1983 to 1986 in the architecture section, leading in parallel classical guitar studies.
Santoni Patrick began his painting by Street Art during his studies at the ESBA of Angers. Jean-Michel Basquiat was his first inspirer. Quickly he moved to the studio where he dropped sprays in favor of brushes. His very graphic and protest work, gradually evolved over the years towards an increasingly realistic painting, always anti-establishment, tending towards the advertising imagery, images punctuated by slogans, a smooth painting without matter or little, like the classical painters, the systematic use of the sfumato.
After several professional stages (furniture design, product design, web design), he decided to focus on painting in 2002.
In 2010, he questions his work, and begins a study in small formats based on the landscape with the support of photography, which brings him today to a more pictorial work, with more material.
His landscapes always have this note of protest that characterizes the artist, they reveal an ide...

2024 "Habiter demain, ailleurs" solo exhibition in Angers, France.

2024 "Habiter demain" Residence and solo exhibition in Loire-Authion, France.

2023 MacParis International Contemporary Art Event in Paris, France.

2022 "Puls'Art" International Contemporary Art Event in Le Mans, France.

2021 Represented by David Cha Gallery, 51 Av Montaigne 75008 Paris, France.

2020 Galerie 17 / Aigues-Mortes, France.

2019 Open Source / LACDA (Los Angeles Centre for Digital Art - Los Angeles, États-Unis.

2019 SNAP TO GRID INTERNATIONAL / LACDA (Los Angeles Centre for Digital Art - Los Angeles, États-Unis.

2019 10° Edition IAM "Internationale d'art miniature" Galerie Louise-Carrier à Lévis Canada.

2017 Circle Foundation for the Arts. Top 10 Award presented to: Santoni Patrick for participation in Circle Foundation's Art Competition and distinction within the top 10 contestant artists competing for exhibition at Art Expo New York.

2017 Presented in Art Kudos International Competition 2017, online exhibition.

2017 Presented in Artist Portfolio Magazine Q2-2017, Issue 31, honorable mention.

2017 Contemporary Art Gallery AVV, Saint Mathurin sur Loire (France).

2017 9° Edition IAM "Internationale d'art miniature" Galerie Louise-Carrier à Lévi...