Patrice Valota

STANISLAV PLUTENKO STANISLAV PAT R I C E PLUTENKO VA L O TA

Patrice Valota was born in Compiegne (northern France) in 1950.

In Valota’s new series of paintings, Days are Dark & Nights are Clear, colour becomes an experience.

In these works, landscape is on the edge of abstraction and he crosscuts seemingly small scale precellular or molecular forms with big scenes, evoking sunsets on fire or interstellar clouds.

Contrast is the vital lead in these works where light is in fusion with deep darkness, Valota’s colour is apart, it vibrates and comes alive with wax, has a special depth and transparency as if it was at the core of matter itself. It is sensual, delicate and strong.

Combining instinct with a controlled gesture, with Days are Dark & Nights are Clear, he plunges us into the origins of colour combining forces of nature and spiritual grace.

“Wax never stops surprising me. It’s like a book I open and where, under the page I see, I can sense the next page and the one afterwards. I have the feeling I paint on the edge. Wax offers all its delicacy and transparency to the touch of my blowtorch’s flame. It absorbs colours, transcends them and guides me in my search for other hues. Wax is alive, sensual. Wax is light, it is at the heart of my story.”

- Valota

Days are Dark & Nights are Clear No. 70 Coast Bird Town 162 x 162 cm Bird Town 110 x 160 110pigments x 170 170 cm cm on Wax and Oil on canvas Oil on linen board

Days are Dark & Nights are Clear No. 11 116 x 89 cm Wax and pigments on board

Beginning 100 x 71 cm Pencil, coal on paper

Days are Dark & Nights Clear Green No. 68 Battleare Forest of Dean 116 x 89 cm 100on Oil x 71 canvas cm Wax and pigmentsPencil, on board coal on paper

Days are Dark & Nights are Clear No. 22 162 x 162 cm Wax and pigments on board

DaysDays are Dark are Dark & Nights & Nights are Clear are Clear No. 61 No.detail 17 detail 162 x162 130x cm 163 cm WaxWax andand pigments pigments on board on board

Days are Dark & Nights are Clear No. 2 73 x 60 cm Wax and pigments on board

Days are Dark & Nights are Clear Meteors No. 8, 7, 9, 1, 6 & 3 (from top left to bottom right) 16 cm diameter Wax and pigments on a glass support

Days are Dark & Nights are Clear No. 71 116 x 89 cm Wax and pigments on board

Days are Dark & Nights are Clear No. 41 55 x 46 cm Wax and pigments on board

Moscow Island 120 x 150 cm Glen on She-Stranger Tiltcanvas Days are Mixed Dark &medial Nights are Clear No. 66 92 x 137 130 cm x 209 cm 162 x 130 cm Oil board on Oilcanvas on canvas Wax and pigments on

Days are Dark & Nights are Clear No. 58 73 x 60 cm Wax and pigments on board

Selected Exhibitions 2012 Days are Dark & Nights are Clear, Hay Hill Gallery, London 2011 Zerobullet$, Galerie Riff Art Projects, Paris 2011 Quiet Days Under the Trees, Hay Hill Gallery, London 2011 Contemporary Istanbul, Galerie Riff Arts Projects, Istanbul 2011 Noir et Blanc, Galerie Riff Art Projects, Paris 2009 Traverses, Maison des Arts, Le Vigan 2008 Accords & Â mes, Galerie Riff Art Project, Strasbourg 2008 Salon Show-Off, Galerie Riff Art Projects, Strasbourg 2007 Des arbres et des â mes, Maison des Art d’Evreux 2005 Arborescence, Galerie Lavignes, Bastille, Paris 2005 Salon de Montrouge 2003 L’Art Emmêlé, Hôtel de Ville de Paris

2003 Contes et Légendes à La Guéroulde, Association La Source, La Guéroulde 2001 Blanc, Galerie Valérie Cueto, Paris 2001 Impressions, Galerie Beckel Odille Boïcos, Paris 2001 Art Paris, Galerie Beckel Odille Boïcos 2000 Rouge, Galerie Valérie Cueto, Paris 2000 Hors Corps, Galerie Valérie Cueto, Paris 1998 Galerie Henri Bussière Art’s, Paris 1997 Sculptures et dessins (Espace Dominique Morlotti, Paris) 1996 Genre humain, Galerie Françoise Palluel, Paris 1993 Le Monde de l’Art, Paris 1992 Salon du Touquet, Galerie Lavignes Bastille 1991 Galerie Lavignes Bastille, Paris 1991 Salon de Montrouge

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