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Transpositions, Installation view, Zurich (CH), 2020

Patric Sandri

Zurich/Switzerland

Conceptual art, Installation, Painting, Sculpture • Born in Uster/Switzerland • Studied at Royal College of Art, London/UK

Published  20/04/2016   |   Updated  13/09/2020

About Patric Sandri's work

Patric Sandri’s paintings are content and medium at the same time. He deals with perception and the aspect of looking. Using the mistakes of perceptual apprehension has become more and more important in the way he generates ideas and works. The function of a three-dimensional object and its carrier is explored, often deconstructed and put into a new order. Light completes the paintings and is thematized by the different architectural parts of...

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Patric Sandri’s paintings are content and medium at the same time. He deals with perception and the aspect of looking. Using the mistakes of perceptual apprehension has become more and more important in the way he generates ideas and works. The function of a three-dimensional object and its carrier is explored, often deconstructed and put into a new order. Light completes the paintings and is thematized by the different architectural parts of the works which are painted. The colours reflect and radiate on the background which is dipped in colored light. The front and the backsides of the works are equally important. The works have a sculptural character - but always remain committed to painting.

Painting has it’s visual parameters, but couldn’t these be implemented in an alternative way through an intensified questioning of the role and perception of the artist as observer and vice versa? Patric Sandri proposes a detachment from the rigor and age-long practice of painting in the form of panel painting that has been executed for centuries. Shouldn’t the architecture of painting be questioned once more and revised in terms of implementing its media content more precisely?

Traditionally the viewer is confronted with a plane, mainly one surface, suggesting a pictorial space which is attached to an object. The perception of this pictorial space results through detachment from actuality similar to a view out of the window. In this sense a painting presents itself in the exhibition room like an island in the ocean. Maybe the painting is able to create references within this space, but simultaneously it is trapped in an ongoing conflict between plane, object and space.

To lend honesty to the pictorial space and open the painterly window to the viewer, Sandri proposes a transformation of the pictorial tools as the actual space and environment. What is important is the perception of the site-specific image that should be viewed as a painting and not only as a collection of objects within the three-dimensional area. Rather, the scene in the actual room should be perceived as an image with depth and volume.

The image shall be experienced through a heightened intensity by the participant, movement within the space becomes a tool for painting whereby the image and perspective constantly change. Similar to a stage, the space or environment now serves as an image-carrier, the composition as the plane, the matter as bodies, the light as a source. The pictorial space as actual space can visualize the paintings components by giving immediacyand authenticity without losing its materiality and visual message. With the participant involved, the perception within the painting becomes essential, connected directly with the reality of human experience.

Hagen Schümann, Å+, Berlin, 2018

Patric Sandri
Transpositions, Installation view at multipleart, Zurich (CH), 2020

Transpositions, Installation view at multipleart, Zurich (CH), 2020

Me, You, Myself, Yourself, I and You, Installation view at Vebikus Kunsthalle Schaffhausen (CH), 2020 (with Adam Thompson)

Me, You, Myself, Yourself, I and You, Installation view at Vebikus Kunsthalle Schaffhausen (CH), 2020 (with Adam Thompson)

Yes, Maybe, No / Yes, No, Maybe / No, Maybe, Yes, Installation view / solo booth at artgeneva, Geneva (CH), 2020

Yes, Maybe, No / Yes, No, Maybe / No, Maybe, Yes, Installation view / solo booth at artgeneva, Geneva (CH), 2020

Untitled (Composition with Stretchers, 3 Colours and 3 Open Parts), Installation view at AlteFabrik, Rapperswil (CH), 2019

Untitled (Composition with Stretchers, 3 Colours and 3 Open Parts), Installation view at AlteFabrik, Rapperswil (CH), 2019

Neue Staffel (with Roman Gysin), Installation view at Å+, Berlin (DE), 2019

Neue Staffel (with Roman Gysin), Installation view at Å+, Berlin (DE), 2019

Filter, Installation view at Å+, Berlin (DE), 2018

Filter, Installation view at Å+, Berlin (DE), 2018

Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue, Installation view at Museum Angra do Heroismo (MAH) (Tereceira Island, Azores), 2017

Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue, Installation view at Museum Angra do Heroismo (MAH) (Tereceira Island, Azores), 2017

Untitled (Composition with a Red, a Yellow and a Blue Rectangle), Installation view at Helmhaus Zurich (CH), 2017

Untitled (Composition with a Red, a Yellow and a Blue Rectangle), Installation view at Helmhaus Zurich (CH), 2017

Paint(h)ings, Installation view at Galerie Lisa Kandlhofer, Vienna (AT), 2017

Paint(h)ings, Installation view at Galerie Lisa Kandlhofer, Vienna (AT), 2017

Frank Piasta und Patric Sandri, Installation view at multipleart, Zurich (CH), 2017

Frank Piasta und Patric Sandri, Installation view at multipleart, Zurich (CH), 2017

50/50, Installation view at Ultrastudio, Pescara (IT), 2017

50/50, Installation view at Ultrastudio, Pescara (IT), 2017

Between Numbers and Poems, Installation view at Annarumma Gallery, Naples (IT), 2016

Between Numbers and Poems, Installation view at Annarumma Gallery, Naples (IT), 2016

Untitled (Painting after R.S.), Paint on 3 wooden panels, Dimensions variable, 2016

Untitled (Painting after R.S.), Paint on 3 wooden panels, Dimensions variable, 2016

Eight Canvas - One Painting, Installation view at BALTSprojects, Zurich (CH), 2016

Eight Canvas - One Painting, Installation view at BALTSprojects, Zurich (CH), 2016

Untitled (Compositions with Canvas and 2 Colours), Gesso and alkyd enamel on canvas, 160 x 125 cm each, 2016

Untitled (Compositions with Canvas and 2 Colours), Gesso and alkyd enamel on canvas, 160 x 125 cm each, 2016

A sculpture of Marmalade is a Sculpture. But it isn't marmalade, Installation view at Kunstplattform akku, Emmenbrücke / Lucerne (CH), 2015

A sculpture of Marmalade is a Sculpture. But it isn't marmalade, Installation view at Kunstplattform akku, Emmenbrücke / Lucerne (CH), 2015


EXHIBITIONS

SOLO

2020

Me, You, Myself, Yourself, I and You, Vebikus Kunsthalle Schaffhausen (CH) (with Adam Thompson)

Art Geneva, solo presentation with multipleart, Zurich (CH) (solo)

2019

Neue Staffel, Å+, Berlin (DE) (with Roman Gysin)

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GROUP

2020

Paperwork, Allmendstrasse 92, 8041 Zurich (CH) (group)

A5@MOKKA-RUBIN, Mokka-Rubin, Olten (CH) (group)

2019

weiss / blanche / bianco, multipleart, Zurich (CH) (group)

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WORKS IN COLLECTIONS

Art collection of the City of Zurich (CH)

Esposito Collection, Naples (IT)

Private collections in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, UK, U.S.A

GALLERIES

Annarumma Gallery | www.annarumma.net

Å+ | www.åplus.de

PUBLICATIONS

AWARDS

2020, hibou - Stiftung (CH) Award

2019, Project Grant, Fachstelle Kultur Kanton Zurich (CH)

2018, Project Grant, Minerva Kunststiftung (CH) (Solo exhibition 'Gestures of Light', Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig (DE), 2019)

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EDUCATION (detailed)

2007, Diploma, Lucerne, University of Applied Sciences and Arts

2012, MA, Royal College of Art, London

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