Patrice Valota
1950 (Morienval)
Living in : Montreuil-sous-bois et La Guéroulde
Artist's gallery
"When I was 38, acting brought me back to painting. On my way back to Paris, after playing Louis Calaferte's L'Incarnation in Avignon, I stopped at the home of Jean Cortot, a great painter and father-in-law of my friend Jean-Michel Ribes. He opened the doors of his studio to me. It smelled good. I felt good there. There was a kind of peace. I told myself that this was where I wanted to be. Cortot gave me some pastel pencils and paper. I went outside to draw, among the olive trees. Then I didn't stop and I gave up acting. I worked a lot to make up for lost time. I learnt painting and clay modelling. The clay sculptures led me to make bronze prints. It was while visiting a foundry that I discovered lost wax, which is used to cast bronze. I immediately liked this material. From that day on, wax never left me!
Patrice Valota
Living in : Montreuil-sous-bois et La Guéroulde
Artist's gallery
"When I was 38, acting brought me back to painting. On my way back to Paris, after playing Louis Calaferte's L'Incarnation in Avignon, I stopped at the home of Jean Cortot, a great painter and father-in-law of my friend Jean-Michel Ribes. He opened the doors of his studio to me. It smelled good. I felt good there. There was a kind of peace. I told myself that this was where I wanted to be. Cortot gave me some pastel pencils and paper. I went outside to draw, among the olive trees. Then I didn't stop and I gave up acting. I worked a lot to make up for lost time. I learnt painting and clay modelling. The clay sculptures led me to make bronze prints. It was while visiting a foundry that I discovered lost wax, which is used to cast bronze. I immediately liked this material. From that day on, wax never left me!
Patrice Valota
Artist's movies
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Patrice Valota
03/07/2024 - 03/07/2024Artiste : Patrice Valota Titre : Blooms and Vanity Wax Paintings Réalisateur : Jennifer Lund et Christian Mauviel Lieu : atelier de l'artiste - La guéroulde Date : 2014 Durée : 3'07
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Artist's exhibitions
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Valota. Vincent got a Gun
29/10/2020 - 05/12/2020(Paris) Galerie Koralewski.
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Une Œuvre, Un.e Artiste, Un Jour
30/06/2020 - 15/09/2020(Paris) Espace Art Absolument
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Raynald Driez, Valota et Abbas Bani Hasan. Lames de fond
05/03/2016 - 03/04/2016(Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie) Salle Marcel Baudouin
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Abonnez-vous à Art Absolument
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Valota & Muriel Chéné
10/04/2015 - 16/05/2015(Nantes) Galerie Gaïa
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