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Patrick's artistic research makes use of the mechanisms of perception in the alienating presentation of images, using painting as medium, together with the creation of settings and video. His work is always open to a sort of “perceptive uncertainty”. Starting with the simplest of instruments, either recycled or created by him self, he tries to present a complexity and precision typical of mechanical or digital images, rendering problematical the expressive gesture that is typical of the historic Informal movement and setting up a dichotomy between the processes of creation and the final aesthetic datum. The surfaces of his artworks are as flat as possible, and the tones are dominated by chiaroscuro effects and by the use of a palette of tertiary colours. He suggests a sort of pluralism in the partial and segmented use of space, in order to hint at the various passages and gestures that succeed each other in making the work.