Pato Bosich

Barn Bradenstoke presents recent paintings by Pato Bosich. An invigorating clash of distant mythically-charged antiquities, offset by urban contemporary environments of London.

Pato Bosich, born in Chile in 1978, is a London-based contemporary artist. He has exhibited in London, Europe, Latin America and the United States, including the Nationalmuseum – Stockholm, Ateneum Art Museum – Finland, The Courtauld Institute and London University in London, in Chile at the MSSA and MAM Museums, Porter Contemporary in New York, Jano Arts and Fundació Catalunya Amèrica in Barcelona and Sberbank University in Moscow.

In 2019 he collaborated on art projects with McCaslin Advisory and Marie von Papen. Over the last five years he has created an ongoing body of work in dialogue with the British Museum entitled “Antiquity”.

»In many ancient cultures, the supernatural and the fantastic are accessed through the qualities of the animal. Encoded in my work are the metamorphoses of both - animal and human, and in particular the female form.«

Pato Bosich

Pato Bosich’s female figure is not a true-to-life image, but a timeless carrier of sensation that flows into the composition through the painter’s gestural expression. Due to the subdued blurred colouring, the scene is bathed in a ghostly half twilight, a stage-like atmosphere. The dramatic light-dark contrast dissolves into an “explosion” of colour, contour and image-making itself: an embrace of painting per se.

Woman and horse form a unique symbiosis, as old as the history of humanity itself.
Iconically charged with timeless meaning, Fransisco de Goya deconstructs the powers of the “old system” on its way to a better future. Pato Bosich’s interest and devotion for art history is broad, allowing critics to propose sources for the painting’s elements in antique, classical, and Renaissance art as well as their manifold later reception.