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Patrick Pietropoli

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Patrick Pietropoli

Biography

Patrick Pietropoli is a contemporary painter who represents urban landscapes and street scenes as well as figurative compositions and delicate nudes. He paints the carefully articulated architecture of New York, Paris, Rome and
Venice as well as the intimate portrait of the female figure always finding a perfect balance between freedom and form.
Patrick Pietropoli was born in Paris in 1953. After Sciences Po Paris and a master’s degree in ancient history, he taught history for six years before devoting himself fully to sculpture and painting.


This passion began in early childhood and developed through various experiences with fine art techniques into a lifelong commitment. The artists’ canvases favor line over color while representing objects from the history of art, architecture, urban landscapes with or without characters, female figures. The ancient Greek myths are like a permanent “lietmotiv” in his work.
His first personal exhibition in 1981 was on the Florentine Annunciations, the second on “the abduction of the Sabines”, as depicted in Nicolas Poussin’s painting in the Louvre.
Patrick Pietropoli has spent most of his life in Paris and moved to New York in January 2008.

“The temptation of the new, of the unexplored, most often goes hand in hand with the negation of reality. For my part, I believe that reality implicitly contains all images, in the sense that they also belong to reality.
A museum room contains both the floor, the ceiling, the windows, the walls and the paintings that hang there, as well as the visitors who give it meaning.
I strive not to omit anything in order to restore the most complete image – which does not mean the most exact – of the museum room. In a certain way more complete than the initial photo which serves as a document for me throughout the development of the painting.”

Patrick Pietropoli