Francesco Patriarca

FRANCESCO PATRIARCA

Francesco Patriarca (b. 1974, Italy) is an Italian multimedia artist. His research is based on different expressive languages that include painting, photography, drawing, installation, and music. Through careful observation of the environment and its constant mutations, the artist translates his visual thoughts into cycles of works conceived as a personal diary, an ongoing visual biography.

Patriarca makes emotional, vibrating abstract works that focus on gestural and chromatic energy where the subject is often to be found and interpreted through the viewer’s personal experience. He has shown his work extensively in site-specific installations, museums, and private institutions worldwide. Partiarca lives and works in Rome.

Selected Exhibitions

The National Gallery of Art, Washington; MAXXI, Rome; Musée Carnavalet, Paris; Rencontres d’Arles, Arles; MAMBO, Bologna; MADRE, Naples; Reggia di Caserta, Italy; National Gallery of Arts, Tirana; Museo Orto Botanico, Naples; Ministero Degli Affari Esteri, Italy; Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Rome; Torrence Art Museum, USA; The Edit, Dubai; M’ars Contemporary Art Center, Moscow; Sanskriti Foundation, New Delhi; Apothecaries Gardens, St. Petersburg; Next Level Project Space, London; Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas.

Selected Publications

Francesco Patriarca’s work has been featured in The International Herald Tribune (2007), The Art Journal (2009), The Rachofosky Collection Journal (2012), Courrier International (2011), La Repubblica (2013), Lire (2010), The Observer (2014), Time Out (2015), Liberation (2016), Nomenus Quarterly (2014), L’Espresso (2012), Il Giornale dell’Arte (2011), L’Officiel (2014), Vogue UK (2017), Miser & Now (2018), Next Level (2016), Exibart (2015), Art Tribune (2014), Landscape Stories (2016), Il Corriere del Mezzogiorno (2014), and Il Mattino (2013). His monograph was published in Patriarca, Francesco. L’appartement. Paris: Les Editions Filigranes, 2012.