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Seb Patane
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Seb Patane is an Italian artist living and working in London. Patane received a MA from Goldsmiths University in Fine Art and a BA from Central St Martins college of Art & Design also in Fine Art. His practice includes many different media, including painting, drawing and sound. He consistently returns to drawing which is at the core of his practice. For Patane drawing is associated with freedom and subversion; he uses drawing as an act of protest. This is rooted in the idea of the doodle and the subconscious desire to draw. Patane’s use of a ballpoint pen on top of collage, coving people’s faces, is an homage to the image and way to bring together abstraction and figuration.
“To me, the head is the focus of the composition, the vessel for the narrative, and the primary receiver of my speculative gaze. Therefore my self imposed challenge has always been: can I shift this focus, make it less hierarchical yet still have it retain a certain subversive power, by means of concealment, adornment, fracturing, re-distributed balance? Can you abstract the head?”
Among Patane’s solo exhibitions are So this song kills fascists, Art Now, Tate Britain, 2007; Intermezzo Strumentale at Galleria Fonti, 2020; Seb Patane, Maureen Paley, London, 2006. Group shows include Pushing paper: Contemporary Drawing from 1970 to now, British Museum, London; Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea (travelling), 2019-2020; Bumped Bodies; Works from the Iself Collection, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2018; The Black Album, Maureen Paley, London, 2004.
Seb Patane’s work has been included in numerous group shows including Pushing paper: Contemporary Drawing from 1970 to now, British Museum, London; Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea, 2019-2020; Bumped Bodies; Works from the Iself Collection, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2018; Portrait of the artist as a young (wo)man, Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, Italy, 2014; Cara Domani, works from the Ernesto Esposito collection, Mambo, Museo d’arte Moderna di Bologna, Italy, 2013; Compass in Hand: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawing Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2009; The Object of The Attack, David Roberts Art Foundation, London, 2009; Beck’s Futures, touring exhibition: ICA, London, CCA (off site), Glasgow, Arnolfini (off site), Bristol, 2006; The Black Album, Maureen Paley, London, 2004; Exhibitionists Festival, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, 1998.
Patane also has works in the renowned collection at MoMa, New York.
Seb Patane is currently represented by Galleria Fonti, Napoli, Italy.
Seb Patane is an Italian artist living and working in London. Patane received a MA from Goldsmiths University in Fine Art and a BA from Central St Martins college of Art & Design also in Fine Art. His practice includes many different media, including painting, drawing and sound. He consistently returns to drawing which is at the core of his practice. For Patane drawing is associated with freedom and subversion; he uses drawing as an act of protest. This is rooted in the idea of the doodle and the subconscious desire to draw. Patane’s use of a ballpoint pen on top of collage, coving people’s faces, is an homage to the image and way to bring together abstraction and figuration.
“To me, the head is the focus of the composition, the vessel for the narrative, and the primary receiver of my speculative gaze. Therefore my self imposed challenge has always been: can I shift this focus, make it less hierarchical yet still have it retain a certain subversive power, by means of concealment, adornment, fracturing, re-distributed balance? Can you abstract the head?”
Among Patane’s solo exhibitions are So this song kills fascists, Art Now, Tate Britain, 2007; Intermezzo Strumentale at Galleria Fonti, 2020; Seb Patane, Maureen Paley, London, 2006. Group shows include Pushing paper: Contemporary Drawing from 1970 to now, British Museum, London; Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea (travelling), 2019-2020; Bumped Bodies; Works from the Iself Collection, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2018; The Black Album, Maureen Paley, London, 2004.
Seb Patane’s work has been included in numerous group shows including Pushing paper: Contemporary Drawing from 1970 to now, British Museum, London; Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea, 2019-2020; Bumped Bodies; Works from the Iself Collection, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2018; Portrait of the artist as a young (wo)man, Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, Italy, 2014; Cara Domani, works from the Ernesto Esposito collection, Mambo, Museo d’arte Moderna di Bologna, Italy, 2013; Compass in Hand: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawing Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2009; The Object of The Attack, David Roberts Art Foundation, London, 2009; Beck’s Futures, touring exhibition: ICA, London, CCA (off site), Glasgow, Arnolfini (off site), Bristol, 2006; The Black Album, Maureen Paley, London, 2004; Exhibitionists Festival, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, 1998.
Patane also has works in the renowned collection at MoMa, New York.
Seb Patane is currently represented by Galleria Fonti, Napoli, Italy.
