Patrice Palacio

Patrice Palacio is a French visual artist whose main medium is painting. He is 47 years old and lives in the south of France.
His work develops in the form of series essentially articulated around two constants:
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- The achromy of black and white.
- Fragmentation of the pictorial surface.

The exclusive use of black and white is induced by a research initiated for more than 10 years on tone and luminance, the direct and the essential.
The fragmentation of the surface, on the other hand, engages the viewer in a dual figuration / abstraction that quickly becomes useless to apprehend the work and therefore questions the relation to the Real and its representation.
Palacio summarizes this paradox, this "permanent return and return from the detail to the whole" as the only condition for finding "the place of the gaze" which teaches about one's own perception.
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"It is not so much my art that is contemporary as its spectators."

born in 1977. Lives in France.
I paint since my childhood.
7 years in university from 16 to 23. I obtained a Masters Degree ( bac+5)
I became an independant professional artist at 23.
I also succeeded in Public school of fine Arts Teacher exam the same year.
I started teaching and exhibiting in french art fairs.
Then I was selected in international art fairs shows and exhibited in famous Parisian galleries. Some art critics said that I represented a kind of new wave of painter, they called that 'nouvelle peinture' (2005)
I became Art History professor some years later.
In 2008, I stopped teaching, to increase my painting time.
Sometimes, I'm invited for conferences and university juries to explain my work.
I often have collaborations with fundations, companies and institutions about specific art projects which move the established way to think painting. Cinema, Histology, food, wine, laboratory, space fundamental researches etc…

ART FAIRS
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Art Basel
Art Basel Miami
Art London
Art Toronto
Foire d’art contemporain de Tel Aviv
Fiac off. Paris
Art Elysées. Paris
Lille Art Fair
St’art. Strasbourg
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Institutions & Fundations
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Alliance Française de New York. USA
Alliance Française de Mayence. Allemagne
Musée du Design et de la mode. Paris
Musée Fabre. Montpellier
Espace Bagouet. Montpellier
Maison des Relations internationales. Montpellier
Artcurial
Fondation Hélénis. Montpellier
Fondation H.G. Clouzot. Paris
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Projects and commissions
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New York. USA. MAK Project. Sweet Street Desserts
Dubaï. Royal Portrait.
France. Histalim