Patrick Tabarelli (Verona, Italy - 1979).
My artistic research makes use of the mechanisms of perception in the alienating presentation of images, using painting as medium, together with the creation of settings and video. My work is always open to a sort of "perceptive uncertainty". Starting with the simplest of instruments, either recycled or created by my self, I try to present a complexity and precision typical of mechanical or digital images, rendering problematical the expressive gesture that is typical of the historic Informal movement and setting up a dichotomy between the processes of creation and the final aesthetic datum. My surfaces are as flat as possible, and the tones are dominated by chiaroscuro effects and by the use of a palette of tertiary colours. I suggests a sort of pluralism in the partial and segmented use of space, in order to hint at the various passages and gestures that succeed each other in making the work.
solo shows
2017
Echo of Hidden Places (with J. Pignatelli), FabulaFineArt, Ferrara.2016
2016
Elsewhere, Again (with F. De Martino), Peninsula, Berlin, DE.
2015
500 Unreachable Islands – Machines Dream of Electric Islands, Expo 2015, Milan, IT.
Ubiquity, curated by I. Quaroni, Maryling|ABC-ARTE Arte, Milan, IT.
crossing-over, HangarBicocca, Milan, IT.
2011
Lifted, curated by A. Baldoni. Grafiche Oldoni, Milan, IT.
2008
Fertilis (with C. Piatti), curated by D. Vescovi, Grafiche Oldoni, Milan, IT.
group exhibitions
2016
Principio di Indeterminazione, curated by I. Quaroni, ABC-ARTE, Genoa, IT.
2015
SHAPES, Circoloquadro, Milan, IT.
OTHERNESS, curated by OUT44, La Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, IT.
2013
Surfacing – works by emerging artists from the UK and Italy, curated by B. Pelly-Fry e L. Lang, Griffin Gallery, London, Uk.
Last Young – Under 35 in Italia, curated by A. Baldoni, R. Farinotti, L. Respi, Villa Brivio, Nova Milanese.
Co.Co.Co – Como Contemporary Contest 2013, San Pietro in Atrio, Como, IT.
Arte in Sarpi, curated by R. Farinotti, Spazio Annunciata, Milan, IT.
Tetris, Michele Bazzana – Tiziano Martini – Patrick Tabarelli, MARS, Milan, IT.
Artist Outreach Program Award, Arte Accessibile Milano, Spazio Eventiquattro, Milan, IT. – best awarded under 35.
Artists for Nutopia, Museum of New Art, Nutopia, curated by A. Baldoni.
2012
Seconda pelle, Palazzo della Triennale, Milan, IT.
Summer Show. Anteprime stagione 2012-2013”, Galleria Rubin, Milan, IT.
Seminario sulla Gioventù, curated by I. Quaroni, Arte Accessibile Milan, Spazio Eventiquattro and PWC Experience, Milan, IT.
Parola, Immagine – un possibile viaggio, Istituto Stefano Maria Legnani, Saronno, IT.
Salon Primo 2012, Ex Chiesa di San Carpoforo, Milan, IT.
2011
Co.Co.Co. – Como Contemporary Contest, Spazio Natta, Como, IT.
Drawing Connections, Siena Art Institute, Siena, IT.
Artifici 2007/2011, curated by F. Sainini, Grafiche Oldoni, Milan, IT.
Una mano per AIL – Il giusto mezzo, Fund Raising Auction organized by Christie’s, Fondazione Pomodoro, Milan, IT.
Osservatorio 4, H2O, Sartirana Castle, Sartirana Lomellina (PV), IT.
2010
Officina Creativa, Santa Verdiana, 2010, Florence, IT.
Immaginari Video, curated by M. Coletti, Clip Up, Guardo Tadino (PG), IT.
Kilometro20 +1, curated by D. Vescovi, Torrione Farnese, Castell’Arquato (PC), IT.
Una mano per AIL, Fund Raising Auction organized by Christie’s, Palazzo Clerici, Milan, IT.
2009
Una mano per AIL Fund Raising Auction organized by Christie’s, Palazzo Clerici, Milan.
2008
Milano in Digitale III, curated by C. Trivellin and M. Ghilardi, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, IT.
awards
2016
RobotArt Competition, Andrew Conru Foundation, Seattle US
2013
Artist Outreach Program Award, Arte Accessibile Milano, Spazio Eventiquattro, Milan – best artist under 35.
Co.Co.Co – Como Contemporary Contest 2013, San Pietro in Atrio, Como.
2011
Co.Co.Co. – Como Contemporary Contest, Spazio Natta, Como.
2010
Premio Nazionale delle Arti 2009/2010, Afam/Miur, Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli, Naples.
2008
Milano in Digitale III, curated by C. Trivellin and M. Ghilardi, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan.