Patrizia Pareo
1959, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Born in Buenos Aires (Argentina) in 1959.
She grew up in the city where she was born and where she attended the Beato Angélico Academy of Fine Arts and the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes Prilidiano Pueyrredón, successfully graduating in painting in 1982.
Right from an early age she has exhibited and taken part in many exhibitions, both personal and with other artists, in Buenos Aires.
At the same time, her passion for sculpture, already experienced in the academy, led her to attend the atelier of the Spanish sculptor Ramon Castejon.
In 1984 she moved to Italy with his partner Claudio Ruben Couso, photographer and videomaker. She thus began an intense exhibition activity, already started in Argentina, which led her, in 1992, to open her Art Gallery in Cisternino, in the heart of the Itria Valley, and to participate in numerous exhibitions, in Italy and abroad.
The gallerist Bernadette d’Haudrecy noticed her on one of her trips to Italy and began a permanent collaboration with solo exhibitions in the wonderful d’Haudrecy Art Gallery, in Knokke-Zoute (Belgium). In those years, the art critic Stéphane Ray took an interest in her painting and dedicated several articles to her in the famous Belgian newspaper ECHO (Culture & Loisirs).
Subsequently, her painting begins to undergo changes, her vision of life leads her to see beyond the objective reality of things. In her paintings you can see the first signs that will lead her to a path towards abstraction. Anima Bianca and Anima Nera is the first work of rupture with the figurative world. She is an artist who uses a variety of painting techniques. Among these it is worth mentioning the pastel colours that she prepares by herself just like the old masters. Moreover, she personally prints and prepares her engravings portfolios in her studio.
In 2005 he began his permanent collaboration with the Atelier Deko in Vienna, which later became Galerie Lindergrün, where several of hes works are currently exhibited. In recent years she has been immersed in the world of raku ceramics, an oriental technique loved by the artist.
In her most recent solo exhibition Traces between East and West (2021) at the Paragon 700 Boutique Hotel, she presents a new collection of works on paper that inspired her to develop raku ceramic works that she will be exhibiting in the near future.
Her works are found in various public and private collections in Italy and abroad, including France, England, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United States, Canada and Australia.
The galleries that exhibit her work in Europe are Galerie Lindergrün (Wien) and Pareo Art Gallery (Cisternino, Italy).
Patrizia Pareo
1959, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Born in Buenos Aires (Argentina) in 1959.
She grew up in the city where she was born and where she attended the Beato Angélico Academy of Fine Arts and the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes Prilidiano Pueyrredón, successfully graduating in painting in 1982.
Right from an early age she has exhibited and taken part in many exhibitions, both personal and with other artists, in Buenos Aires.
At the same time, her passion for sculpture, already experienced in the academy, led her to attend the atelier of the Spanish sculptor Ramon Castejon.
In 1984 she moved to Italy with his partner Claudio Ruben Couso, photographer and videomaker. She thus began an intense exhibition activity, already started in Argentina, which led her, in 1992, to open her Art Gallery in Cisternino, in the heart of the Itria Valley, and to participate in numerous exhibitions, in Italy and abroad.
The gallerist Bernadette d’Haudrecy noticed her on one of her trips to Italy and began a permanent collaboration with solo exhibitions in the wonderful d’Haudrecy Art Gallery, in Knokke-Zoute (Belgium). In those years, the art critic Stéphane Ray took an interest in her painting and dedicated several articles to her in the famous Belgian newspaper ECHO (Culture & Loisirs).
Subsequently, her painting begins to undergo changes, her vision of life leads her to see beyond the objective reality of things. In her paintings you can see the first signs that will lead her to a path towards abstraction. Anima Bianca and Anima Nera is the first work of rupture with the figurative world. She is an artist who uses a variety of painting techniques. Among these it is worth mentioning the pastel colours that she prepares by herself just like the old masters. Moreover, she personally she personally prints and prepares her engravings portfolios in her studio.
In 2005 he began his permanent collaboration with the Atelier Deko in Vienna, which later became Galerie Lindergrün, where several of hes works are currently exhibited. In recent years she has been immersed in the world of raku ceramics, an oriental technique loved by the artist.
In her most recent solo exhibition Traces between East and West (2021) at the Paragon 700 Boutique Hotel, she presents a new collection of works on paper that inspired her to develop raku ceramic works that she will be exhibiting in the near future.
Her works are found in various public and private collections in Italy and abroad, including France, England, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United States, Canada and Australia.
The galleries that exhibit her work in Europe are Galerie Lindergrün (Wien) and Pareo Art Gallery (Cisternino, Italy).
Work
Bibliography
Catalogo Virgilio
2004
Annuario de Arte Moderno
1999
Annuario EIAC
1992
Culture & Loisirs
2000
Culture & Loisirs
1999
Culture & Loisirs
1998
Work
Critics
Patrizia Elisa Pareo is first and foremost an instinctive colorist and a master of composition. The blues, greens and ochres in a narrow range of nuances are the artist’s favourite shades.. I discovered the artist during an inquiry on foreign artists transplanted in Puglia. His presence in the 2002 edition of “San Nicola e i bambini” is a fact that also has a social meaning. So from the point of view of the contents, the painting of this artist speaks through the sentimental vein, understanding with such tension that expression of the feelings that so much had in the history of the European art.
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Obviousness: the fourth dimension
Look at this, at these paintings. Space and time, things and beings find a place at the same moment. Space surges in the form of breath, skies, water, matter and flesh; areas of equal dignity. There is no privilege. Time is not clock time, but particular to each element, between appearance and disappearance.
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Time exposure: where the image comes from
Each painting shows the very moment and place when the image is about to appear, blurred, as if it were just the click of the camera and not yet memory. Between objective distance and the remoteness of memory. Between “outside” and “inside”, a paradoxical moment and place that is, however, that “intermediary realm” – not only characteristic of painting, but also of the human situation and experience – of which Paul Klee spoke. A vision governed by silence and listening.
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Coexistence and opposites
All elements, beings and things are present simultaneously in all their strength and frailty. Earth is growth and decay. Heaven is dark and light. Fire burns and one already sees the ashes.
Water ripples and stagnates. Flesh is soft and firm, tender and tense. Metals shine and rust. Opacity becomes transparent and transparency opaque. Matter is smooth and rough, colours cold and warm. Opposites coexist and do not dissolve in any definable “atmosphere”. There is no “essence” of the elements, of beings and things. They are all suspended between being and nothingness, in the instant and place of their existence. -
Intertwining of life and death
Forms are temporary and succumb to the destiny of matter. Colours are at their highest intensity and already about to fade. Seasons are undefinable, just like the world today. Nature, beings and things experience life and death at the same time. One can hear their soft unceasing lament. Between being and nothingness the fragile obstinacy of life.
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Where things come from and go to
Matter, light and energy are mixed up. It is the colours which make things, bodies, and landscapes, not the other way round. Pure physics without any metaphysics. Paintings of a woman and a mother. Elements, bodies and things pass; time does not. Matter and space take shape and withdraw, leaving an impression, a sensation and a desire for life. Perceiving is not enough to guarantee the existence of beings and things. They have to be shown, drawn and painted in order to be felt.
These works are neither “figurative” nor “abstract”, nor an imaginary “synthesis” of the two. They show the passage of the existing to the non-existing, from reality to dream, from photography to memory, from appearance to disappearance (and back …). They have managed to capture the strength and frailty of what is given to us to see.
Her scenes or harbours, boats, indoors and landscapes express a profound sense of traditional realities and a lasting wish to take into account the seductive nature of a life that is today dominated by the sea but that might blossom into other things against other backgrounds.
In the magical vividness of unforgettable blues and water, the rust coloured boats and harbours abandon the formality of lines and give us a sense of the shifting nature of truth.
But Patrizia Pareo does not just limit her painting to her favourite themes. With strength and sensitivity, she manages to penetrate to the spiritual centre of things. She seems to find it totally natural. Everything in her is natural, spontaneous, expressing strength and effortlessness.
Patrizia Elisa Pareo gives shape, with simplified and raw evidence, to things that are recognisable and easily perceived from their outside appearance from which she eliminates the superfluous in order to emphasize what she feels, the moment interiorized in its greatest degree of intensity.
Her compositions are somewhere between what she can feel and what she can see, between rapid formal recognition and colour intuitions that in an authentically expressionist way, she “feels inside her”.
Patrizia Elisa Pareo’s painting disregards the contemplation of nature, the imitative illustration of reality to rediscover truth. To make her human and artistic truths visible.
Work
Exhibitions
Selected solo and group exhibitions
2021 – Tracce tra oriente e occidente – Paragon700 Boutique Hotel – Ostuni – Italy
2019 – Siviglia luci e colori – Pareo Art Gallery – Cisternino – Italy
2019 – Nùevù Studio – Disimpegno | appunti intorno all’abitare – Cisternino – Italy
2018 – No war, Life is precious – Galerie Lindengrün – Wien – Austria
2015 – International Biennal Painting – Chisinau – Moldova
2014 – Galerie Lindengrün – Wien – Austria
2013 – Solo art exhibition Macrohabitat/Microhabitat – Cisternino – Italy
2012 – Spazio – Galerie Lindengrün – Wien – Austria
2010 – Solo exhibition – Relais Masseria Villa Cenci – Cisternino – Italy
2009 – Artist against war – Itinerant exhibition – Italy
2009 – Deko – Atelier Lindengrün – Wien – Austria
2008 – Galerie Kunsthalle Hosp – Innsbruck – Austria
2008 – Deko – Atelier Lindengrün – Wien – Austria
2008 – Blu sonoro – Il Chiodo di Sermoneta Gallery – Latina – Italy
2007 – Deko – Atelier Lindengrün – Wien – Austria
2007 – Land Art – Maglie – Italy
2006 – Deko – Atelier Lindengrün – Wien – Austria
2006 – La Panchetta Art Gallery – Bari – Italy
2005 – Deko – Atelier Lindengrün – Wien – Austria
2004 – Palazzo Tanzarella – Ostuni – Italy
2004 – Solo art exhibition – Villa Correr Pisani – Montebelluna – Italy
2003 – Venti e aromi del Sud – Torre Civica – Cisternino – Italy
2002 – Spazio Giovani “San Nicola e i Bambini” – Municipal Gallery – Bari – Italy
2002 – D’Haudrecy Art Gallery – Knokke-Heist – Belgium
2001 – Municipal Tower – Cisternino – Italy
2001 – D’Haudrecy Art Gallery – Knokke-Heist – Belgium
2000 – D’Haudrecy Art Gallery – Knokke-Heist – Belgium
1999 – Pieter Breughel Art Gallery – Amsterdam – Holland
1999 – D’Haudrecy Art Gallery – Knokke-Heist – Belgium
1998 – D’Haudrecy Art Gallery – Knokke-Heist – Belgium
1997 – Municipal Tower – Cisternino – Italy
1997 – D’Haudrecy Art Gallery – Knokke-Heist – Belgium
1997 – Neoterisma – Biennal of Contemporary Art – Cisternino – Italy
1996 – Municipal Hall – Putignano – Italy
1995 – Neoterisma – Biennal of Contemporary Art – Cisternino – Italy
1995 – Castello Angioino – Mola di Bari – Italy
1994 – I National Painting Exhibition – Mola di Bari – Italy
1994 – Palazzo Alberotanza – Mola di Bari – Italy
1994 – Galleria della Tartaruga – Rome – Italy
1993 – Rassegna di pittura contemporanea – Trivero – Italy
1993 – II Natale Malinverni Biennal – Spessa – Pavia – Italy
1993 – Painting Exhibition “Citta di Forli” – Forli – Italy
1990 – I sette passi d’arte contemporanea – Ceglie Messapica – Italy
1990 – Istituto Giannettino – Cisternino – Italy
1988 – Villaggio SOS – Ostuni – Italy
1987 – Consorzio Interprovinciale dei trulli – Martina Franca – Italy
1987 – Municipal Tower – Cisternino – Italy
1986 – Municipal Hall – Ostuni – Italy
1985 – Mediterranea Gallery – Brindisi – Italy
1985 – Contemporary Painting Exhibition – Ceglie Messapica – Italy
1983 – Amicizia Art Gallery – Buenos Aires – Argentina
1983 – Colegio Ward – Estación de las Artes – Ramos Megia – Argentina
1983 – Museo Historico y de Arte General San Martín – Moron – Argentina
1982 – Associazione Culturale Fiorentino Ameghino – Lujan – Argentina
1982 – Museo Sivori – Buenos Aires – Argentina
1981 – XII Salón municipal artes plasticas – Quilmes – Argentina
1981 – II Salón Regional de artes plasticas – Quilmes – Argentina
1980 – Ateneo Popular de la Boca – Buenos Aires – Argentina
1976 – Salón Nacional de Bellas Artes – Buenos Aires – Argentina
Selected solo and group exhibitions
2021 – Tracce tra oriente e occidente – Paragon700 Boutique Hotel – Ostuni – Italy
2019 – Siviglia luci e colori – Pareo Art Gallery – Cisternino – Italy
2019 – Nùevù Studio – Disimpegno | appunti intorno all’abitare – Cisternino – Italy
2018 – No war, Life is precious – Galerie Lindengrün – Wien – Austria
2015 – International Biennal Painting – Chisinau – Moldova
2014 – Galerie Lindengrün – Wien – Austria
2013 – Solo art exhibition Macrohabitat/Microhabitat – Cisternino – Italy
2012 – Spazio – Galerie Lindengrün – Wien – Austria
2010 – Solo exhibition – Relais Masseria Villa Cenci – Cisternino – Italy
2009 – Artist against war – Itinerant exhibition – Italy
2009 – Deko – Atelier Lindengrün – Wien – Austria
2008 – Galerie Kunsthalle Hosp – Innsbruck – Austria
2008 – Deko – Atelier Lindengrün – Wien – Austria
2008 – Blu sonoro – Il Chiodo di Sermoneta Gallery – Latina – Italy
2007 – Deko – Atelier Lindengrün – Wien – Austria
2007 – Land Art – Maglie – Italy
2006 – Deko – Atelier Lindengrün – Wien – Austria
2006 – La Panchetta Art Gallery – Bari – Italy
2005 – Deko – Atelier Lindengrün – Wien – Austria
2004 – Palazzo Tanzarella – Ostuni – Italy
2004 – Solo art exhibition – Villa Correr Pisani – Montebelluna – Italy
2003 – Venti e aromi del Sud – Torre Civica – Cisternino – Italy
2002 – Spazio Giovani “San Nicola e i Bambini” – Municipal Gallery – Bari – Italy
2002 – D’Haudrecy Art Gallery – Knokke-Heist – Belgium
2001 – Municipal Tower – Cisternino – Italy
2001 – D’Haudrecy Art Gallery – Knokke-Heist – Belgium
2000 – D’Haudrecy Art Gallery – Knokke-Heist – Belgium
1999 – Pieter Breughel Art Gallery – Amsterdam – Holland
1999 – D’Haudrecy Art Gallery – Knokke-Heist – Belgium
1998 – D’Haudrecy Art Gallery – Knokke-Heist – Belgium
1997 – Municipal Tower – Cisternino – Italy
1997 – D’Haudrecy Art Gallery – Knokke-Heist – Belgium
1997 – Neoterisma – Biennal of Contemporary Art – Cisternino – Italy
1996 – Municipal Hall – Putignano – Italy
1995 – Neoterisma – Biennal of Contemporary Art – Cisternino – Italy
1995 – Castello Angioino – Mola di Bari – Italy
1994 – I National Painting Exhibition – Mola di Bari – Italy
1994 – Palazzo Alberotanza – Mola di Bari – Italy
1994 – Galleria della Tartaruga – Rome – Italy
1993 – Rassegna di pittura contemporanea – Trivero – Italy
1993 – II Natale Malinverni Biennal – Spessa – Pavia – Italy
1993 – Painting Exhibition “Citta di Forli” – Forli – Italy
1990 – I sette passi d’arte contemporanea – Ceglie Messapica – Italy
1990 – Istituto Giannettino – Cisternino – Italy
1988 – Villaggio SOS – Ostuni – Italy
1987 – Consorzio Interprovinciale dei trulli – Martina Franca – Italy
1987 – Municipal Tower – Cisternino – Italy
1986 – Municipal Hall – Ostuni – Italy
1985 – Mediterranea Gallery – Brindisi – Italy
1985 – Contemporary Painting Exhibition – Ceglie Messapica – Italy
1983 – Amicizia Art Gallery – Buenos Aires – Argentina
1983 – Colegio Ward – Estación de las Artes – Ramos Megia – Argentina
1983 – Museo Historico y de Arte General San Martín – Moron – Argentina
1982 – Associazione Culturale Fiorentino Ameghino – Lujan – Argentina
1982 – Museo Sivori – Buenos Aires – Argentina
1981 – XII Salón municipal artes plasticas – Quilmes – Argentina
1981 – II Salón Regional de artes plasticas – Quilmes – Argentina
1980 – Ateneo Popular de la Boca – Buenos Aires – Argentina
1976 – Salón Nacional de Bellas Artes – Buenos Aires – Argentina
