Sans Titre, 2020

Patrice Palacio  

Patrice Palacio is a French painter and designer born in 1977.

His work has been developing for 20 years in the form of series essentially articulated around two constants:

- The exclusive use of black and white.

- The deconstruction of pictorial perception.

Patrice Palacio develops his research in the form of series.

The subject is with him a pretext to probe the fundamental issues of Painting.

“What do we see when we look? "," Where is the gaze located? "," How to write what is not? "

Plastically, his practice focuses on luminance, the delayed, the painting object, the void.

Faced with his paintings, the viewer quickly finds himself in a figuration / abstraction duality, useless to apprehend the work, and therefore questions the relationship to the Real and to its representation.

The artist uses a precise coding-decoding protocol that he assimilates to writing.

The recomposed signs take on meaning and become an image.

Patrice Palacio speaks of a “permanent round trip from the detail to the whole, the only condition for finding the place of the gaze that teaches about one's own perception of the world".

Finally, his position as an artist in his time wants to be shifted since he declares: "It is not so much my art that is contemporary as its spectators."