Biography
Patricia Sicardi was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and lives and works in Barcelona, Spain. Patricia earned her national teaching certificate in painting and engraving at the Santa Ana Institute in 1982. She studied in the workshops of Kenneth Kemble, Eduardo Mac Entyre, Aurelio Macci, Alfredo de Vicenzo, Marta Cesani, Guillermo Roux, and Antonio Pujia, and has coordinated art workshops on poetry, philosophy, and psychology. In 1983, she founded a workshop in Buenos Aires for teaching painting and engraving to children, adolescents, and adults. In 2001, she relocated to San Cugat de Valles, Barcelona, Spain, where she participated in the Taller Libre de l’Escola d’Art, with artist Paco Minuesa. In 2003, she opened a workshop in Barcelona, and two years later opened Siart, an art gallery in Cadaqués, Spain.
Patricia continues to show her work internationally in solo and group exhibitions, and she has completed numerous private commissions of murals, folding screens, and objects, as well as book illustrations. She has shown internationally in France, Italy, Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Malaysia and Uruguay.
Artist Statement
Sicardi’s most recent paintings are about creating new spaces. Color was the dominant element in her previous works, but here she contrasts black and white with vigorous, gestural brushwork. Lines and forms interplay in spaces of silence. Brief mentions of color intimate force, rhythm and interiority: a dance for the spectator.
Eudald Camps wrote in the Spanish Daily newspaper Diario de Girona that “Patricia Sicardi’s Mediterranean vision is evident in her artworks. The city of Cadaqués, Spain, provided an ideal setting where Sicardi’s paintings could resolve themselves with an intensity that strikes close to home. Vast fields of color and forceful brushstrokes allow light to vibrate with an unsuspected brilliance, and the retina to recreate itself through an interplay of light. Freedom at its maximum.”
Artist CV
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2016 Maps of the Inner Cosmos, Samara Gallery, Houston, TX
2015 Fort de Bellegarde, Le Pethus, France
2014 Gallery Rivera Sicardi, Cadaqués, Spain
Gallery Estudio Mitti, Milano, Italy
Gallery Shad, Toulouse, France
2013 Gallery Shad, Toulouse, France
2012 La Capelleta de Ceret, France
2011 Gallery ĽEcharpe, Toulouse, France
Castello Di Nervi, Genova, Italy
2010 Art Gallery, Dieulefit, France
18th Cultural Festival America, Pau, France
2009 Siart Gallery, Cadaqués, Girona, Spain
2008 Casa de Cultura de Tabasco, Mexico City, Mexico
Espinelves Church, Osona, Cataluña, Spain
2007 Recoleta Gallery, National Library, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2006 Crystal Palace Hotel, Barcelona, Spain
Siart Gallery, Cadaqués, Girona, Spain
Almirall Salon, Barcelona, Spain
2005 Art Space LOLA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Siart Gallery, Cadaqués, Girona, Spain
Almirall Salon, Barcelona, Spain
2004 Cultural Society Sant Jaume, Premia de Dalt, Barcelona, Spain
Art Gallery Magdalena Baixeras, Barcelona, Spain
2003 Portes I Balcons, Art Gallery Iris, Barcelona, Spain
Gallery Pou ďArt, Sant Cugat del Vallés, Barcelona, Spain
2002 Art Gallery Magdalena Baixeras, Barcelona, Spain
2001 De Barcelona a Argentina, San Telmo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Encontres I Café ďArgentina, Gallery of Ariadna Roberts, San Cugat del Vallés, Barcelona, Spain
Art space, Puerto de la Duquesa, Marbella, Spain
1999 Cultural Center Borges, Buenos Aires, Argentina
La Barra, Trench Gallery, Punta del Este, Uruguay
1998 Gallery Centoira, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1995 Lagard Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Cultural Center Misiones, Posadas, Argentina
1994 Municipality of San Carlos de BarilocheCultural Museum, Rio Negro, Argentina
Gallery Pocito, Montevideo, Uruguay
Art Gallery La Querencia, Carlos Fader, Villa Allende, Córdoba, Argentina
1993 Art Gallery Los Patios de Giuffra, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1982 Patio Bollini, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Selected Group Exhibitions
2014 Archeological Museum, Olbia, Italy
Arts Libris, Malaga Gallery, Milano, Italy
Arts Libris, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Barcelona, Spain
2013 Milan Arts Events Gallery, Milano, Italy
Arts Libris, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Barcelona, Spain
Tramuntana art, Port de la Selva
2011 ĽEcharpe Gallery, Toulouse, France
2010 Secularitat sagrada i art, Friendship Society, Cadaqués, Girona, Spain
Siart Gallery, Cadaqués, Girona, Spain
2009 Siart Gallery, Cadaqués, Girona, Spain
Marinaart Gallery, Gata de Gorgos, Alicante, Spain
2006 Christmas Group Exhibition, Swimming Club Natacío, Barcelona, Spain
Cultural Space Francoli, Barcelona, Spain
Mini Print International of Engraving, Cadaqués, Girona, Spain
Siart Gallery, Cadaqués, Girona, Spain
2004 Art Gallery Gorina Space, Sant Cugat del Vales, Barcelona, Spain
2003 Iris Art Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
2002 International Federation of Artists, Art space ACEA, Barcelona, Spain
FIRART, Art Association, Sant Cugat del Valles, Barcelona, Spain
Greco Gallery, Sitges, Barcelona, Spain
Art Gallery Ismes, Vilanova, Barcelona, Spain
Antoni Gaudi, Town hall of Santa Coloma de Farnés, Girona, Spain
2001 House of Culture, San Cugat de Valles, Barcelona, Spain
1998 ArteBA, Galería Centoira, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1997 XII Contemporary Argentine Artists, Embassy of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
ArteBA, Centro Cultural de Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Gallery Kin Cultural, Mexico
1996 Five Argentina Painters, Arquideco Art Gallery, Miami, FL, USA
Encuentro de Pintores, Fundation Bollini, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1995 ArteBA, Centro Cultural de Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Fundation Banc of Boston, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Gallery Adriana Indik, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1994 Argentine Embassy, Punta del Este, Uruguay
Society Salon of Visual Arts, Andreani Foundation, Buenos Aires, Argentina
New Images Salon, Museum Roca, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Winter Salon of Visual Arts, Rómulo Raggio Foundation and FU.SE.DIM, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1993 Europa Café, Houston, TX, USA
III Salon of Visual Arts Argentina, Secretary of Culture, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1989 Engraving, Gallery of Time, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Engraving, Hebraic Society, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1987 Municipal Salon of Luján, Gravat, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1980 Drawing and Engraving, Municipal Salon of Visual Arts of Avellaneda, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Bolsa de Cerales, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1976 National Salon of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Awards
2014 Critics Choice, First place, Italian American Art, Olbia, Italy
2004 First prize, Painting contest, “Art Meson,” Sant Cugat Winn Devon Poster Collection, USA
1998 Mention, Museo Roca, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Other Honors
2012 Book Illustration, El color del trigo, Leonal Sicardi
2008 Book Illustration, No sé decir Adios, Nieves Calandreli
Auction, Lamas Bolaño, Barcelona, Spain
2005 Book Illustration, Los vulnerables cipreses del otoño, Alba Estrella Gutierrez
Collections
Town Hall of Ceret, France
El Escorial Collection, Madrid, Spain
Madeleine Kleinwort, London, UK