Patrick Faure

We are all Icarus - Oil and Gold Leaf on Canvas - Contemporary Painting

2018

Patrick Faure was born in Monaco and gained recognition as a significant painter of Native Americans and highly realistic auto racing, Formula 1 (F1) paintings. Faure also developed as a surrealist painter and invented a new style of painting Faurism that challenges our understanding of the human condition based on philosophical concepts. Commonly mistaken with surrealism, his paintings hold myriad hidden messages and symbols which deal with the brutality of human consciousness and subconsciousness. In his paintings, Faure challenges our values by juxtaposing war against peace, reality against utopia, mythology and history against present and future, and ignorance against knowledge. His belief is that regardless of how many civilizations are destroyed by the monetization of human life, the obsession for power, and the egocentric selfishness of man, art will prevail and knowledge will be restored. Faure believes that without art and knowledge, there is no human race. Faure routinely conducts an extensive program of exhibits that include shows in Italy, England, UNESCO, and the United Nations. Faure is the published author of four books and has illustrated many articles and has been published in many magazines and lives in London with his English partner.