Francesco Patriarca is an italian multimedia artist.
His research is based on different expressive languages that include painting, photography, drawing, installation and music .
By observing the environment and its constant mutations, Francesco Patriarca translates his visual thoughts in cycles of works that are conceived as a personal diary, an ongoing visual biography.
He makes emotional and vibrating abstract works that focus on gestural and chromatic energy where the subject is often to be found and interpreted by the personal experience of the viewer. Born in Rome in 1974 he has studied, lived and worked in the UK, France and the USA.
He has extensively shown his work in site specific installations in both museums and private institutions worldwide from 2002 to 2023.
Born in Rome in 1974 he has studied, lived and worked in the UK, France and the USA. He has extensively shown his work in site specific installations in both museums and private institutions worldwide from 2002 to 2023.
Selected exhibitions:
- Fronds, Gorges, Rivers and Roads (Kultur Zentrum Klang, Freiburg- Germany)
solo exhibition (July 2023)
- Il vuoto (Magazzini del Sale, Venezia)
group exhibition in public institution
- Mirage (PRAC Arte Contemporanea, Ponzano Romano)
group exhibition in public institution
- Sling (The Edit Dubai, Dubai)
solo exhibition in private gallery
- Tropical House (Spazio Nea, Naples)
solo exhibition in private gallery
- Backflip (MAXXI Rome, MAMBO Bologna, MADRE Naples, Reggia di Caserta
Naples)
solo installation in group exhibition in museums
- After The Crash (Museo Orto Botanico Rome)
solo installation in group exhibition in public institution
- Migrations (Apothecaries Gardens Moscow)
solo exhibition in museum
- Birds by the Hand (Art Platform Los Angeles)
solo installation in art fair
- Mineral Hemisphere (Next Level Project Space London)
solo installation in private gallery
- Block Print (Sanskriti Foundation New Delhi)
solo exhibition in private foundation
- Geo Narratives (Torrance Art Museum California)
group exhibition in museum
- Aggregates (Fondazione Pastificio Cerere Rome)
solo exhibition in private foundation
- L'appartement (Goss Michael Foundation Dallas
solo exhibition in art foundation
- De Vides Trophées (Galerie Peithner-Lichtenfels, Vienna)
solo exhibition in private gallery
- Amnesia, (Nicoletta Rusconi Projects, Milan)
solo exhibition in private gallery
- 4 Large Paintings (Ministero degli Af ari Esteri Rome)
solo exhibition in public institution
- L’appartement (Musée Carnavalet, Paris)
solo exhibition in museum
- Dactyl Foundation, New York City
group exhibition in private foundation
- Rencontres d'Arles, Arles
group exhibition in public institution
- Pyramids project (National Gallery of Arts, Tirana)
solo installation in national museum
- Francesco Patriarca(M'ars Contemporary Art Center, Moscow)
solo exhibition in public foundation
His work has been reviewed on: The International Herald Tribune, The Art Journal,
The Rachofsky Collection Journal, Courrier International, La Repubblica, Lire, The
Observer, Time Out, Liberation, Nomenus Quarterly, L'Espresso, Il Giornale dell'Arte,
L'Of iciel, Vogue UK, Miser & Now, Next Level, Exibart, Art Tribune, Landscape Stories, Il
Corriere del Mezzogiorno, Il Mattino.
His monograph 'L'appartement' has been published in Paris with Les Editions
Filigranes
Curators that have written essays on his work include: Piero Tomassoni, Luigi Fassi,
Gianluca Marziani, Graziano Menolascina, Sibylle Pieyre de Mandiargues, Piergiorgio
Branzi, Lindsay Harris, Camilla Boemio, Maria Alicata, Charles Danby, Sheyi Anthony
Bankale, Etel Adnan, Emanuele Trevi, Laura Gabbiano, Charissa Terranova, Lucy
Cleland, Gabriel Bauret.