Patrice De Santa Coloma

Patrice de Santa Coloma is a Franco-Argentinian painter born in 1967 in Buenos-Aires. After studying engineering in London, he worked for large groups in the field of computer security. At 30, he joined the University of the Arts London & ENSCI where he obtained a Master of Arts

His paintings are inspired by different fields: biology and chemistry in particular. He uses polyptychs, inspired by the fragmented visions of the kaleidoscope or stereoscopy, or even the microscope. He invents bridges between experimental music, science fiction, biology or computer science. He draws from it structures, graphic and chromatic rhythms, tries out colorimetric dissonances in a search for demanding harmonies. His exhibitions revisit major works of literature like Ernesto Sábato’s novel The Tunnel and The Occupied House” by Julio Cortázar or Tales of love, madness and death by the Uruguayan Horacio Quiroga that he puts in space. Recently, a collaboration with researchers from the Functional Genomics Center of Bordeaux allows him to follow in the footsteps of Giotto while going further in his own pictorial research. During this work, he experimented with the egg tempera and lead white paint recipes used by the Italian master of the Trecento, of which he will deliver a very personal version of the Saint Francis altarpiece receiving the stigmata.

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