Discover the contemporary work of Patou.B
Being an artist means needing to transmit emotions, to evacuate them and to feed on the vital force that results. I materialize this force in abstraction. My painting is not a spiritual medicine, it lists the existential stages of my life, it is a moment that surpasses my worries. My paintings are like a word pierced by silence, they speak of pain, happiness, the light at the end of the tunnel, they offer an escape towards elsewhere, towards the dream... My paintings are like a being who undresses and shows us his assets.
I am a self-taught painter and poet, my artistic journey began in Paris. through writing. The words, surreptitiously, brought me to life. à represent them through painting. Since then my life has been punctuated by these two mediums. They are, throughout the years, the common thread of my artistic career
" ... Painting, like the prayers of the Saints and the song of the poets, is attentive to the correspondences between the immaterial and the material. That of Patou.B is at; both sensory and visual. The cold tones, sometimes warm, imprint a particular climatology on the room. his paintings, the promise of a metamorphosis to come. Its atmospheric and luminous backgrounds seem to be on the verge of changing appearance over time. the image of clouds veiling and constantly revealing the transparencies and depths of the sky... "Ileana Cornea art critic Paris 2008