The work of Patrick Denoun is the material evocation of a collection of images gathered during his travels, then recreated on canvas in a playful game of light and shadow. Reminiscences of the author reported that a combined visual journey of India, Thailand, Bali, Morocco, North Africa and finally Mexico, a country Denoun visited repeatedly from 1976 to 1985 when he decided to stay in Puerto Vallarta permanently.
Natural scenes of excellent detail portrayed realistically with impeccable technique describing the wide range of similarities, which the artist found in the natural world: life forms, colors, flavors, flora, fauna, horizons and sunlight. The simple things in life, discovered during his travels are the source of his themes: women working with wool and transformed into full-color fabrics, craftsmen shaping clay into pots, the inhabitants of high mountains appear in the market to sell their fruit. "Earthly Beings", as best described by the artist. "I prefer to speak of the Eden that we have on Earth, to protect life, trees, plants, people." Thanks to his great technical strengths, he developed an impressive hyperrealism supported by design and for his impeccable mastery of composition as much as his management of color.
Patrick Denoun, Paris (1950) studied various artistic techniques at the prestigious French Academy of Arts National College Boulle, where he entered at17 after achieving inclusion in a group of 160 students selected from among 3 thousand aspirants, obtaining a degree in the specialization of sculpture in wood. After a few years working as a sculptor, decided to return to paint and ink. His work is the subject of an annual exhibition circuit in Genoa, Brussels, Zurich, Paris, Lyon and Lugano. Over the past two decades, his work has been in galleries in France, United States, Australia and India. Two years after his death, the Patrick Denoun remains a force in the arts through his excellent work here in Vallarta.
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