Ana Patitú

ANA PATITÚ (Argentina, 1982).
"Stand-by Couple 01". 2020.
Acrylic on wood.
Ready to hang.
Certificate of authenticity attached.
Measurements: 30x40x1,8 cm.

The Argentine artist Ana Patitú currently resides in Barcelona. She studied Graphic Design at the prestigious University of Buenos Aires (a reference of design in Latin America) where after being a student she taught Drawing and Typography. While working as a graphic designer, she took painting classes with Gabriel Glaiman, and muralism with Georgina Ciotti, among others. In 2016 she moves to Barcelona and continues working as a freelance designer. It is in 2018 after a deep depression caused by uprooting that she decides to dedicate herself to art professionally. She starts painting portraits as a way to get closer to her loved ones, who live "across the pond", and continues to explore the human figure as a vehicle for emotions, delving into the different moods she has gone through. These bodies of defined muscles inhabit aquatic environments referring to the relationship that the artist establishes with swimming as a therapeutic element in her daily life. She has presented a solo exhibition at Sara Caso Gallery (Madrid) 2024, and at Casa Gracia (Barcelona) 2019 and has participated in several group shows at Esther Montoriol, Jordi Barnadas and Sara Caso Galleries, and in the proposal Art For Life, Chicago (USA). AAF Singapore 2023, AAF New York and AAF Hong Kong 2024. Her works are also part of a number of private collections in America, Europe and Australia.

Artist's statement: "I seek to recreate the sensations I experience underwater, as a way to reconstruct that place sometimes of security and serenity, and other times of vulnerability and loneliness. I compose my works with few elements to provide visual rest: limited palettes and one or two figures, which are often the same character and his reflection or alter ego. I use photography as a starting point, most of the time images that I capture myself. Before painting I like to study well the proportion of the figure, I establish a grid that helps me to place it on the support in the place I want and I draw it with a certain degree of detail. Then I use acrylic since due to its quick drying the strokes do not lose spontaneity."