(French, b. 1953)
Patrick Pietropoli is a contemporary painter who represents cityscapes and street scenes along with figural compositions and delicate nudes. He paints the carefully articulated architecture of New York, Paris, Rome, and Venice, as well as the intimate portrayal of the feminine figure always finding a perfect balance between freedom and form.
Patrick Pietropoli was born in Paris in 1953. After Sciences Po Paris and a Master's degree in Ancient History, he taught history for six years before fully devoting himself to sculpture and painting.
This passion started in early childhood and developed through varrious experiments with fine arts techniques into a life-long commitment. The artists' canvases favor line over color while representing objects from the history of art, architecture, cityscapes with or without figures, and female figures. The ancient Greek myths are like a permanent "lietmotiv" in his work. His first solo exhibition in 1981 was about the Florentine Annonciations, the second one was about "the rapt of the Sabines," as it is represented in the painting of Nicolas Poussin at the Louvre.
Patrick Pietropoli spent most of his life in Paris and relocated to New York in January 2008.
SELECT EXHIBITIONS
2024 Gallery 71, “Flower Power”, NYC, NY
2023 Galerie Claudine Legrand, “Carnaval Venitien”, Paris 6
Craighead & Green Gallery, New Work, Dallas, TX
2022 Hugo Galerie, “Chenonceau”, Madison Ave, NYC, NY
Pryor Fine Art, New Work, Atlanta, GA
2021 Guerre et Paix,Hugo Galerie – Soho, New York, NY
2020 Coup de Foudre, Hugo Galerie, New York, NY
2019 Coincidences, Hugo Galerie, New York, NY
2018 Croisées entrecroisées, Galerie Felli, Paris, France
2018 NYC-Venise Caprices Architecturaux, Galerie Claudine Legrand, Paris, France
2018 Fontainebleau, Hugo Galerie, New York, NY
2017 Past, Present, Future, La Citadella Museo Civico, Crema, Italy
2016 New York From Above, Below & Within, Galerie LeRoyer, Montreal, Canada
2016 De La Rue au Musée, Espace Saint Jean, Musée de Melun, France
2016 Town & Country, M Fine Arts Gallery, Boston, MA
2015 Just Next to Reality, Galerie Felli, Paris, France
2015 New York Street View and Lointains, Galerie Claudine Legrand, Paris, France
2014 Interiéurs/Extérieurs, Galerie Felli, Paris, France
2014 Summer Group Show, Axelle Fine Arts, New York, NY
2014 Spring Group Show, Axelle Fine Arts, New York, NY
2013 Spring Group Show, Axelle Fine Arts, New York, NY
2012 Winter Group Show, Axelle Fine Arts, New York, NY
2013 Group Show, Axelle Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2012 Un Voyage En Italie, Axelle Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2012 Group Show, Axelle Fine Arts, New York, NY
2011 Axelle Fine Arts, New York, NY
2010 Art Chicago, Cynthia Corbett Gallery, London, UK
2010 Axelle Fine Arts Galerie, New York, NY
2010 Felli Galerie, rue Vieille du Temple, Paris, France
2010 Axelle Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2009 Axelle Fine Arts Galerie, Boston, MA
2009 Claudine Legrand Galerie, rue de Seine, Paris, France
2009 Axelle Fine Arts, New York, NY
2008 Axelle Fine Arts Galerie, New York, NY
2008 Axelle Fine Arts Galerie, San Francisco, CA
2008 Felli Galerie, rue Vieille du Temple, Paris, France
2007 Claudine Legrand Galerie, rue de Seine, Paris, France
2007 Axelle Fine Arts Galerie, New York, NY
2007 Axelle Fine Arts Galerie, Boston, MA
2006 Claudine Legrand Galerie, rue de Seine, Paris, France
2006 London Art Fair, Cynthia Corbett Gallery, London, UK
2006 Crema Museum, Personal Exhibition, Crema, Italy
2005 Axelle Fine Arts Galerie, New York, NY
2005 Galerie de l’Europe, San Francisco, CA
2004 Galerie Francis Barlier, Paris, France
2004 Galerie Visconti, Paris, France
2003 Galerie de l’Europe, Paris, France
2003 Axelle Fine Arts Galerie, New York, NY
2002 Galerie de l’Europe, Paris, France
2001 Claudine Legrand Galerie, Paris, France
2001 Galerie Gantois, Cannes, France
2001 Salon Art Paris, stand V. Smagghe, Paris carrousel du Louvre, France
2001 Axelle Fine Arts Galerie, New York, NY
2000 Galerie Ileana Boudoulis, Paris, France
2000 Galerie de l’Europe, Paris, France
2000 Musee la Marine, Place de la Concorde: two paintings acquired for permanent collection
1999 CGB Galerie, Honfleur, France
1999 Claudine Legrand Galerie, Paris, France
1999 SAGA, stand Boulan, Paris, France
1999 Galerie de l’Europe, Paris, France
1998 Galerie Septentrion, Lille, France
1998 SAGA, stand Boulan, Paris, France
1998 Galerie Etienne de Cousans, Paris, France
1998 Lineart, Gand, Belgium
1998 Galerie Ileana Bouboulis, Paris, France
1997 Catherine Guerard Galerie, Paris, France
1997 Claudine Legrand Galerie, Paris, France
1996 Paintings and drawings, Galerie Guenegaud, Paris, France
1995 Salon d’art contemporain de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
1995 Objects utiles, Anne Robin Galerie, Paris, France
1995 J.M. Felli Galerie, Paris, France
1990-95 Execution of commissions: frescoes and monumental sculpture for the Mutualite Francaise
1983-90 Personal exhibitions each year in Paris and Lille, Galerie 31
"From street scenes and urban landscapes painted intensively in the years 1990-2010, my painting has since been me together reoriented towards portraiture in a surrealist or ornamentalist manner."
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