Contemporary artist
PatrizioLandolfi
Chromatic fragmentation: colour that breaks apart and comes together again, until it shows itself as pure luminous energy.
Reading and extracting from the pages of life, where joys and sorrows mark the passing of time.
From the biography
Born in Battipaglia in 1954, Patrizio Landolfi has lived in Tuscany since 1980. After opening a gallery in Prato with friends, he turned to painting, revisiting abstract expressionism and pop art with a technique of his own: chromatic fragmentation.
Over half a century he has exhibited from Palazzo Vecchio in Florence to the Pall Mall Gallery in London, from Saint Petersburg to New York and Art Basel Miami.
241
works in the archive
7
series
41
exhibitions and events listed
7
cities abroad
The series
Seven ways of looking at colour
From abstraction to pop art, from faces to flowers, from landscapes to the “Violated Innocences”: the archive follows the artist’s series.
22 worksPop ArtFaces from music, cinema and sport – David Bowie, Freddie Mercury, Jimi Hendrix, Marilyn, Ayrton Senna – recomposed in tesserae of pure colour: pop art revisited through chromatic fragmentation.
107 worksAbstractAbstraction is the language the artist favours: the composition breaks into layers that become mosaics of colour, crossed by channels that give the canvases a three-dimensional aspect.
55 worksFigurative ArtFaces, figures, horses and riders, angels and masks: the figure emerges from the fragments and from the material of the canvas.
11 worksFlowersFloral compositions and roses, where colour lights up in petals and corollas of fragments.
32 worksLandscapes – CitiesLandscapes, nocturnes, seascapes and water lilies, up to the views of Florence and skyscrapers: the place becomes a vibration of light and colour.
9 worksInnocenze violate – Violated InnocencesA collection of purely material works, presented in 2006 at Palazzo Panciatichi, seat of the Regional Council of Tuscany.
5 worksSpiritualSymbols, angels and meditation: the works in which the fragmentation of colour seeks, as the artist puts it, the energy at the centre of the composition.
From the studio
Latest works
The technique
Come closer: see the fragments
If you look with a magnifying glass, you will see very interesting fragments and effects.
Patrizio Landolfi, Islander News, 2019
The artist works in layers that finally manifest themselves as mosaics made through a particularly wide palette. The fragments are often crossed by channels that enrich the works with a three-dimensional aspect.
Veronica Caciolli, art historian
Video
The works in one minute
The presentation video: a walk among the works on display, best watched with sound.
Exhibitions and events
The cities that have hosted his works
Events & press
Latest news
Catalogues
Color Fragmentation
Giunti Editore · February 2024
The art catalogue Color Fragmentation, published in February 2024, arises from a collaboration between the contemporary artist Patrizio Landolfi and the “Special Initiatives” division of the publishing house Giunti Editore, which specializes in editorial projects with promotional and informative purposes. Throughout his half-century long career, Patrizio Landolfi has been featured in important exhibitions and exclusive settings.
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