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Artist Statement:
Only convergences of all my
artworks allow to understand
my artworks' vision: a single
piece can surely provide a
facet of my vision but not the
totality of it. My artworks
are like mirrors of life,
where instants of life are
fixed forever as everybody
needs a mirror to better ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
In february 2008, group
exhibition entitled '
Allegory of the Form' at Agora
Gallery in New York City.
From january and march 2008,
group exhibition at Thuillier
Gallery in Paris.
Since june 2007, represented
by Agora Gallery, New York
City.
In 2007, group exhibition at
Salon international 2007
entitled ' art in ...
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Artist Galleries:
Agora Gallery
530 West 25th Street
New York, NY 10001
http://www.agora-gallery.com
Email info@agora-gallery.com
Tel 212-226-4151
Fax 212-966-4380
Gallery Thuilier
13, rue de Thorigny 75003
Paris
http://galeriethuillier.free.fr
Email
galeriethuillier@wanadoo.fr
Tel (011) +33 0142773324
Fax (011) +...
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Life-Affirming Symbolism in the Art of Patrice Goubeau
A fantastic vision is heightened by the liberal use of chiaroscuro to lend atmospheric drama to the acrylic paintings of Patrice Goubeau, a winner of the coveted Grand Prize award from the Salon des Artistes Francais, at Agora Gallery, 530 West 25th Street , from February 5 through 26. (Reception: Thursday February 7, 6 to 8 PM.)
A native of France , now living and working in Canada , Goubeau employs shadows around the edges of his forms to give human figures, natural objects such as trees, and classical architecture a steely surface sheen that lends them all a similarly unearthly quality. This effect also adds to the abstract attributes of his paintings, even while his subject matter is always clearly delineated and specific. His strongly lit figurative compositions, particularly, suggest a descendant of Caravaggio, albeit with a more contemporary simplicity of form.
Elements of Surrealism also come into play, particularly in canvases such as “The Beautiful Tale,” where an ancient ship sails through the portal of a magnificent baroque structure like a train emerging from a tunnel, as well as in “The Silence,” where the piece de resistance is sinuous wisps of white smoke, curling like phantom serpents around the openings of the colonnade in a classical rotunda. In “The Ruins,” Goubeau evokes a surreal landscape where stylized popular trees appear as sharp as a knife blade, while “Eternity” sets fragmented figures adrift in a dark, lonely cosmic expanse.
”Because all the persons I am very close to died my uncle died in front of me, my best friend died in a car crash when I was 15, two of my friends I used to discuss art with died too and my father also died in my arms I decided to fight for life against all these deaths around me,” Goubeau says in an artist statement issued in conjunction with his exhibition.
”As long as I remember, this battle always existed in my mind: it awakens all my feelings and a profound consciousness that present is already past, when something dramatic happens. In my art, I try to fight against sadness and fate.”
This mystical struggle is apparent in the haunting quality of his compositions, which convey a noble effort to preserve the past in the present, not only by couching visions of antiquity in a vital contemporary style, but by rendering passing moments immutable. In Goubeau's painting “The Star,” for example, a graceful female nude with a purplish cast to her skin appears beset by outer forces that take the form of golden abstract swirls. Although this image was most probably created with mythic rather than literal intent, one cannot help relating it to the recent news reports of youthful celebrities such as Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan succumbing to the perils of fame and the damaging effects of impersonal mass adulation on the private human soul.
Indeed, it is precisely his visionary ability to create images which are timeless yet cast light on current events that makes Patrice Goubeau a compelling and ultimately important painter. (Marie R. Pagano)
The divinley individualistic paintings of Goubeau Patrice entice the eye and excite the mind. His works, which usually feature an inquisitive protagonist, are ripe with symbolic imagery, vivid colors, and a surrealist mode of composition. His investigations of meditation, time, mortality, and transcendence have contributed to the mystical nature of Patrice's work. "I like to share my perceptions of the world," he states, "resulting of the close interactions existing between the past, the present and the future." Each painting serves as point of departure for Patrice's audience, a philosophical marker to engender contemplation on the human condition. Patrice began exhibiting his work around France in 1986, gaining momentum in salons, galleries, and private collections in Italy, Canada, and recently, New York. He has been awarded the Grand Prize award from the Salon des Artistes Français and recognized for his achievements at the Brancusi Cultural Center in Montreal. Patrice lives and works in France.
Agora Gallery, NYC - 2007.
One must share with Patrice Goubeau his novel pictorial and figurative expression of 'Suspended Time'.The composition of his paintings focuses the attention of the amateur art lover on a relative immobility of life scenes, which leads us in a new time space relationship. His artistic expression is personal, incomparable and does not relate to any known school of art form. He submits only to his own form of expression, and the radiant source of his works generates transparency. The harmony of his colours emits a soft poetry full of pure pleasure. Landscapes, floral compositions, nudes and castels are the various themes, which form the basis of his works. The works of Patrice Goubeau are held in many private collections.
MINATHENA, September - 2001.
A wonderful journey in time. We explore an imaginary world, full of light.The painting technics are perfect.
Galerie Richelieu- 2001.
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