La Loire tropicale
Patrick Santoni
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
CHF 782
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Circa 2022
Patrick Santoni
Print : HD print, Hahnemüehle paper, fine art print, Digital color print
30 x 40 x 0.1 cm 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
CHF 244
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Numbered and limited to 8 copies
8 copies available
Signature
Hand-signed by artist
Authenticity
Sold with certificate of Authenticity from the artist
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Dimensions cm • inch
30 x 40 x 0.1 cm 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch Height x Width x Depth
Framing
Black frame with glass
Artwork dimensions including frame
32 x 42 x 1.5 cm 12.6 x 16.5 x 0.6 inch
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Artwork sold in perfect condition
Artwork location: France
The work presented is an intriguing photograph in which the artist plays with the anonymity of the characters. Four human figures sit side by side on a bench, each face replaced by a circle of bright color—yellow, blue, orange, and red. This bold substitution immediately catches the eye, suggesting a reinterpretation of identity and individuality. The blurred, neutral background highlights this vibrant color palette and invites reflection on social recognition. The characters' casual clothing and relaxed posture reinforce an everyday scene made extraordinary by this aesthetic choice. This visual interplay between abstraction and reality reveals a subtle critique of human perception in a world increasingly focused on appearances. The work captivates and fascinates, transforming an ordinary scene into a poignant artistic exploration.
Framed artwork, Nielsen black aluminum slim frame, standard glass.
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Professional art gallery • France
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Presentation
Patrick Santoni lives and works in the Anjou region. His inspiration comes from what he perceives as the incoherence of the world in which he lives.
After studies from the Beaux-Arts, architecture section, he started his artistic work in the early 80s. Influenced by the thematic and graphic freedom of Street Art, La Figuration Libre and Figuration Narrative, he nevertheless claims a classical technical approach (glazing, sfumato, chiaroscuro), the latter allowing him to distance himself from his subjectivity and, beyond that, any possibility of affect. This figurative and technical handling aims at extracting a disturbing strangeness from the point of reversal of reality and to prompt a questioning of the spectator.
In the early 2000s, his "Ringed Birds" series inaugurated a pictorial form inspired by Pop Art. He captured the formalism of labels and posters and designed canvases that he organised like posters with provocative slogans. In 2010, he returns to his fundamentals: landscapes and architecture are the nodal elements through which he will henceforth question existence. The works in the "Horizons", "Piscines" and "Réparations" series have followed one another since then to the rhythm of writing the world and history, each one offering an aesthetic variation in the service of the subject.
From architecture, he draws conceptual methods and a plastic rigour that he applies to the composition of his works. From landscape, he makes his narrative material. But, grasping from the outset the challenge of multimedia, he uses images from all media, from television and photographic imagery to Google Maps, which he manipulates digitally before transcribing them onto the canvas. Exile, uprooting, abandonment, ruins, the invading maquis, the dust of summer, the legacy of his Corsican origins, punctuate his images.
His visuals, both simple and complex, present a universe whose aesthetic illusion only precipitates us into the oceanic abyss that our era writes.
The juxtaposition of sharp and blurred images, the concatenation of planes, the organisation of metonymic elements blur the logic of perception.
The frontier between real and reality becomes literal and brings into existence a universe on the border of uchronia, where hope collides with a dull world, ordered by the discipline of aesthetics from which meaning and reality escape.
His works reflect - almost as ananamorphosis - the noisy and uncertain silence of our time, but also the particular relationship of Man to the landscape.
The artist wishes to question his contemporaries about their paradoxes, their choices for the future.
Some of his works are part of numerous private collections in the United States and Europe. One of them, "Man behind the mask", has been part of the TAFM (Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taiwan) since 2004.
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