Born in Mascali, Catania in 1960, Giuseppe Patane', passionate the of art, afther his Accademy Diploma, he started to collaborate with the family business as art director.
He then stars to cooperate, from Milan to Paris, with international fashion brand in creating pret-à-porter lines, achieving to launch at the end a very personal collection with his name.
His artistic activity grows rapidly followed by several art exhibitions where he becomes the protagonist of the XXVII edition 2016 at the "Arts Prize Award of Culture" at Bocconi Palace in Milano, where he was awarded the Nations Prize with an excellent motivation.
A growing creativity where Giuseppe Patane' loves to model and paint. Famous art and historian critics show the best appreciation about his work:Vittorio Sgarbi, Giorgio Gregorio Grasso, Carmen Bellalba, Achille Bonito Oliva, Carlo Franza.
Projects and works continue to characterize his research in social issues, the man-nature relationship along with a path of reacquisition of a formal and ethereal aesthetic.
Passion, solarity of his land, beast-world that points mostly to the bulls loaded with power and movement, the pagan imagery that is highlighted by the chiaroscuros and the signs of Orpheus-imaginative convulsion; colorful and testimonial memory, a magical and aggressive Neo-Surrealism, the ritual charm of the animal or human figure: all this and even more seems to explain the vitality shown in the artist's work.
Historical, episodic, geographic narratives penetrate the sea of existential vision in such a way that Giuseppe Patane' can be aware, thought orientated at different moments to various fields such as fashion, allegory and baroque derivation going into action. The gallery of his images focused on suspended situations, structure volume and painting-existenzial connections as well as his creative verve, have violent, yet very human tones.
Carlo Franza
video - Giuseppe Patane' Giuseppe Patane talks about his beginnings.
"... the number 10 or 'IO' (self). If IO alludes to the ego, with the image of the bull symbolising the absolute force, the number 10 combines masculine and feminine, being the most complete and reassuring number. Ten is the symbol of the universe, of perfection, of life but also its opposite. "
An exibition with a strong emotional impact, will be inaugurated on Saturday 18th August at 7.30 pm inside the Palazzo Nicolaci Gallery, in a journey between the cult of beauty and the heart.
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