Patrice De Santa Coloma

Patrice de Santa Coloma is a Franco-Argentin 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's degree in 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 structures, graphic and chromatic rhythms, experiments with colorimetric dissonances in a search for demanding harmonies. His exhibitions revisit important works of literature such as 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 which he places in space. Recently, a collaboration with researchers from the Functional Genomics Center of Bordeaux allows him to trace the footsteps of Giotto while going further in his own pictorial research. During this work, he experimented with the painting recipes at the temperature of eggs and lead used by the Italian master of the Trecento, of which he will deliver a very personal version of the surpassing of Saint Francis receiving the stigmata.

Photo credit: Vincent Rauel