Studio d'arte Patania
ANTONIO PATANIA
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Artistic practice
As a support I prefer canvas, but I also love cardboard 600 gram cotton. All my paintings are oil paintings, then, depending on the type of support, I apply with different techniques oxides or colored earths, with wax masking. Sometimes I use the Gold Leaf, a technique that I master thanks to my experience of restoration and gilding. Waxes, friezes, glazes, spatulatings obscure the naked reality, like a sort of “velo di Maya ”.
Inspirations
I draw inspiration from human figures, especially of the female gender, by putting their faces in the foreground. In reality, in every face I try to capture my expression, my state of mind. The story is mine when I am I identify in the gaze of the subject to the point of being moved. I can't paint a face that doesn't upset my stomach, that doesn't reflect a face of my soul.