French contemporary painter
(Lyon - France)
Patrick CRISTALLINI, a contemporary French artist and abstract painter, has been creating experimental works inspired by nature and the universe for around fifteen years.
What drives him through his bold use of materials and colours, sometimes naïve and often unexpected, is to share his admiration for nature, the elements and the immensity of the cosmos.
It is a profoundly spiritual quest, an encounter with the universal intelligence at work behind ‘the real’.
The aim is not to reproduce, but to freely draw inspiration from images encountered on journeys and walks, but also from dreams and visualizations.
The artist’s work focuses on ‘experimental abstraction‘.
Experimental abstraction
From image to object via the imaginary
Exploration
The artist continues to explore nature, always in search of beautiful emotions. His walks in the mountains, by the sea and in the desert are full of inspiring details.
Vision
The plant, mineral, liquid and spiritual worlds offer us enchanting spectacles, but also the bricks that our imaginations can use to build other universes.
In search of origins and possible futures, or even just for fun.
Ideation
It’s in the heart of waves, waterfalls, trees, forests, flowers, lichens, stones, crystals, starry nights, matter in fusion or combustion that Patrick Cristallini finds the detail that will inspire him, leading him to build the mental image that the canvas will receive.
Visualization
Sometimes it’s a landscape or a fragment of an imaginary universe that emerges and demands a place here, in the material.
Realization
This is when the work of experimental abstraction begins.
The artist sketches out an initial graphic transcription, a composition, a framing, mobilizing materials, fillers, colors and pigments, experimenting with chemical and thermal reactions, superimposing and playing with transparencies.
Conceptualization
What drives him is to put his insatiable curiosity and galloping imagination at the service of a project to share a vision of the world focused on the beauty of detail.
It’s a call to return to simplicity and contemplation, far from the sometimes difficult vicissitudes, injunctions and turpitude of human society.
It’s a call to get away from the virtual, sanitized spaces that anaesthetize us and prevent us from dreaming.
But also to arouse positive emotions and awareness of the opaque curtain that the unprecedented and unbridled development initiated at the end of the 19th century has placed between humanity and its original cradle, nature and space.
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