Patrick Pantano: Trying to Bite the Wind

Trying to Bite the Wind is an exhibition of new paintings by Patrick Pantano.

This exhibition reflects the connection between the work and improvisational music – a conceptual touchstone for Pantano’s visual art practice. The works project a sense of catharsis, characterised by overlaid and repeated highly gestural and performative mark making. The surfaces reveal traces of multiple layers of color and texture, alluding to a record or journal of solitary performances.

The paintings, with their textural all-over approach to the canvas, strive to distill abstraction to its essence and to a near complete absence of prescribed meaning. They are fundamentally anarchistic, refusing hierarchy or authority, and imply patterns, such as the pulse of white noise, dance beats, or mantras.

The exhibition opening night is Thursday 21 August, 6pm-9pm.