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
Patrice Valota
Artiste : 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
Artist's exhibitions
Valota. Vincent got a Gun
29/10/2020 - 05/12/2020
(Paris) Galerie Koralewski.
29/10/2020 - 05/12/2020
(Paris) Galerie Koralewski.
Une Œuvre, Un.e Artiste, Un Jour
30/06/2020 - 15/09/2020
(Paris) Espace Art Absolument
30/06/2020 - 15/09/2020
(Paris) Espace Art Absolument
Raynald Driez, Valota et Abbas Bani Hasan. Lames de fond
05/03/2016 - 03/04/2016
(Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie) Salle Marcel Baudouin
05/03/2016 - 03/04/2016
(Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie) Salle Marcel Baudouin
Valota & Muriel Chéné
10/04/2015 - 16/05/2015
(Nantes) Galerie Gaïa
10/04/2015 - 16/05/2015
(Nantes) Galerie Gaïa
Valota. Mes Chères Diaphanes
06/04/2015 - 27/06/2015
(Paris) Galerie Koralewski.
06/04/2015 - 27/06/2015
(Paris) Galerie Koralewski.
Valota – On the other side of the sky
12/06/2013 - 18/07/2013
(Paris) Galerie Lavignes-Bastille
12/06/2013 - 18/07/2013
(Paris) Galerie Lavignes-Bastille