PATRICK RUBINSTEIN
- "ART IS AN EMOTION....… it is the emotion that touches our soul, our memory.” -
PATRICK RUBINSTEIN
The artist draws his themes from both the past and the present. He meticulously sculpts and refines his artworks like a goldsmith. The outcome is mesmerizing: Patrick Rubinstein presents the viewer with a futurist and avant-gardist artwork Growing up in a family that made him perceptive to art at an early age, Patrick Rubinstein acquired the passion for cinema from his mother, and inherited the inventive spirit from his father, who was also the first to introduce to him the techniques of kinetic art. This initiation and culture from his youth would be pivotal for his future artistic creation. At the Age of 18 he sold his first Artwork Never Ceased to innovate, it was not until many years later the the artist perfected his technique and artistic expression to present the internationally acclaimed artworks of today.
MY TECHNIQUE.
Patrick Rubinstein presents an artistic style that unites the principles of optical art and kinetic art, thus maximizing on the intricate sophistication of the eye.
The pioneers of this art had created their artistic expression based on geometric abstraction.Patrick Rubinstein reinterprets the style. Without renouncing the interest in optical play, he chose figuration as expression. His source of inspiration is diverse, traversing that of contemporary art, pop art and street art.Patrick Rubinstein never ceases to surprise. He continuously renews his sources of inspiration, while perpetually innovates his techniques, to present a multifaceted art.
The Double Principle depicts the fusion of two images designed to blend into one. This newly merged image is applied on a medium in accordion configuration. The application on this medium recreates, at 45° angle, the two original images that can be seen from both sides. Several other images, revealed through interlacing of the two views, become visible as spectator moves around the artwork.
The Triple Principle depicts three images, one central and two laterals. The side views are created by strips inserted perpendicular to the central image. Two distinct images are visible, from both sides at 45° angle. This technique allows visual variations when the spectator moves around the work, while maintaining defined sight of the central image.
The result of these two techniques is captivating, giving the artworks an animated and perpetually renewed aspect. The movement is not the only element that affects visual variation, but the light direction and intensity also contribute to the artwork’s kinetic effect.
The ‘Exception’ Artworks of Patrick Rubinstein marked a turning point in the artist’s artistic trajectory.
Far from the explosion of colors that had characterized his earlier creations, the artist presents a work with subdued tone composed of monochrome palette. Yet, not the least monotonous, the colors are contrasted by a precious lace of materials, resulting in new optical effects.
The gold and silver features accentuate the artworks with distinctive luxurious allure, extending the kinetic dynamic. The natural light variations on these materials also alter the visual perception of the artwork according to their intensity. The kinetic effect is further amplified through the artwork’s monumental dimensions. The artist retraces to the pioneer origins of optical art through the subject matters presented in his creations.
Without parting from the pop roots that inspire the artist, Patrick Rubinstein evolves towards an artwork of maturity, affirming his position as one of the leading contemporary artists today.
- ARTIST STATEMENT -
He was fascinated by the way they combined geometric lines and shapes with eye-popping colour to create the illusion of movement and play with the limits of the human eye’s perception, and they became the primary influence on his own artistic evolution.
However, while their artwork was subtle, disorientating and abstract, Patrick’s is more intuitive and attuned to popular culture and the stories of the day, making his images accessible and highly engaging to a contemporary audience; like Andy Warhol and Robert Indiana before him, he believes that art should provoke a universal emotion.
Patrick meticulously sculpts and refines his artworks like a goldsmith and the outcome is mesmerising. He works with what he calls the double principle, which depicts the fusion of two images designed to blend into one, and the triple principle in which three images are each depicted individually, one centrally and two laterally.
His avant-garde technique is not digital, but uses layering and angling to create the ‘kinetic’ effect, allowing visual variations when the spectator moves around the work. The viewer can therefore change what they see, and decide on the speed, the angles and the approach, so every interactive viewing experience is personal and unique.
BIOGRAPHY
Patrick Rubinstein’s pioneering kinetic artworks pay tribute to the most renowned icons from the second half of the 20th century and offer an extraordinary viewing adventure.
Using aspects of Surrealism, Street, Pop Art and Renaissance, he blends creativity, innovation and science to give each work an animated and perpetually self-renewing aspect.
Born in Paris in 1960, Patrick grew up in the shadow of artists such as Victor Vasarely, Bridget Riley and Yaacov Agam, leading figures in the Op (optical) Art and Kinetic Art movements, whose work was introduced to him by his father.
Patrick’s work is held in prestigious collections all over the world, including that of King Mohamed IV of Morocco, a number of fashion designers, French football and tennis heroes Kylian Mbappé and Yannick Noah, as well as several other international sport stars. With its polished and defined composition and interesting, sometimes playful, subject matter, Patrick’s work makes a strong but universally appealing statement in any interior space. His list of high profile collaborators includes world renowned architect and designer Philippe Starck.
RESUME
PATRICK RUBINSTEIN
Né/Born – 1960, Paris, France
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 Patrick Rubinstein, Momentum Art Gallery, Belgium
2020 Musée Imaginaire, Galerie Montmartre, Paris, France
Patrick Rubinstein, Canfin Gallery, Tarrytown, NY,
Patrick Rubinstein, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Toronto,
ON
2019 Patrick Rubinstein, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montréal,
QC, Canada
2018 Patrick Rubinstein, Mensing Galleries, Hamburg,
Hannover, Cologne
Hide & Seek, Bel Air Fine Art Gallery, Coya Club,
London, UK
Kinetic Art or Art in Movement, Art Club Gallery, Lyon,
France
Optical Art Show, Bel Air Fine Art Gallery, Place des
Vosges, Paris, France
Patrick Rubinstein, Saint Martin Gallery, Arcachon,
France
Exception, Montmartre Gallery, Paris, France
Fireworks of Art by Zollverein Coal Mine of Essen,
Mensing Gallery, Essen, Germany
A Tribute to Art, Mensing Galleries, Sylt, Konstanz,
Germany
Patrick Rubinstein, Mensing Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2017 Patrick Rubinstein, Mensing Galleries, Sylt, Hamburg,
and Dusseldorf
OP ART, Perahia Gallery, Paris, France
Meeting with the Giants, Skoufa Gallery, Mykonos,
Greece
Art Up! Contemporary Art Fair, Lille, France
Patrick Rubinstein, Mensing Gallery, Charlottenburg
Palace, Berlin, Germany
Patrick Rubinstein, Mensing Gallery, Konstanz,
Germany
Patrick Rubinstein, International Contemporary Art
Fair, Skoufa Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece
Kinetic Pop Art, Momentum Gallery, Knokke-Heist,
Belgium
SCOPE Art Show, Vivendi Gallery, Palm Beach,
Florida
17th Edition SCOPE Art Show, Vivendi Gallery,
Miami, Florida
2016 Kinetic Pop Art, Montmartre Gallery, Paris, France
2015 Patrick Rubinstein, Banus Gallery, Marbella, Spain
Patrick Rubinstein, Pietrasanta, Italy
Sport is an Art and Art is a Sport, Chataigneraie Tennis
Club, Rueil-Malmaison, France
2014 Ki-ne-tic Rock-n-Roll, designed for Alcazar, Paris
France
Meeting with the Giants, Bartoux Gallery, Signapore
My Declaration, Light Solution, Palais d’Iéna, Paris,
France
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 ICONS, Galerie Montmartre, Paris, France
WILD WALLS, Galerie Montmartre, Paris, France
Spring Collection, Galerie Montmartre, Paris, France
2018 Remastered, Montmartre Gallery, Paris, France
17th Edition SCOPE Art Show, Represented by
Vivdendi Gallery of Paris & Hazelton Fine Art
Galleries, New York, NY
Mark Hachem Gallery, Art New York Pier 94, New
York
Bel Air Fine Art Gallery, Forte dei Marmi, Italy
2016 Eyes of Mona, Permanent Collection, Porrentruy
Optical Art, Switzerland
Patrick Rubinstein, Louiza Auktion Gallery in
partnership with Perahia Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Pop & Street Art, Opera Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
16th Artistic Edition, Bartoux Gallery, Honfleur,
France
2015 Patrick Rubinstein, Bel Air Fine Art Gallery, Beirut,
Lebanon
2014 Patrick Rubinstein, 18th Edition Shanghai Art Fair,
Paris, France
Patrick Rubinstein, Opera Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Patrick Rubinstein, 1st Edition of Next Step, the new
contemporary art biennale in Paris, France
Patrick Rubinstein, BolognaFiere SH Contemporary,
Shanghai, China
ART PUBLIC / PUBLIC ART
2018 Artistic Overflow, Maurice and Paul Maricano
Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Eyes of Mona, Porrentruy Optical Art (POPA),
Switzerland
2014 Music Madness, Copelouzos Art Museum, Athens,
Greece
PHILANTHROPIE / PHILANTHROPY
2018 Donation of artwork Ur Luv, Princess Margot
Association, Paris, France
Donation of artwork Hand of the Master, Les Mains de
l’Espoir Association, Paris, France
2017 Donation of artwork Geniart’art, Téléthon, Paris,
France
Donation of artwork Ahavar’rt, Wizo Association,
Paris, France
Donation of customixed artwork, Paris-SaintGermain Foundation, Paris, France
Donation of artwork Coffret Love, AUJF Association,
Paris, France
Donation of artwork Hoparadise, NGO Les Rois du
Monde (5th Annual Gala), Paris, France
Donation of artwork Amour Love Liebe, AdetecCoeur, Paris, France
2016 Donation of artwork Love Makes Me Alive, Paris,
France
Donation of artwork Eat with Your Eyes, AUJF
Association, Le Livre en Partage, Paris, France
Donation of artwork You and Me, Tribute to the
victims of the July 14th attack in Nice, Palais de la
Méditerranée, 13 Promenade des Anglais, Nice,
France
Donation of artwork Andrew and Jean-Michel, Colonies
Scolaires, Pavillon d’Ermenonville, Ermenonville,
France
Donation of artwork Hope’s Top, Wizo Association,
Fourqueux Golf Club, Fourqueux, France
Donation of artwork A Little Art for a Big Love,
AMISBGU Association, Pavillon Royal, Paris,
France
Donation of artwork A Precious Feeling, AUJF
Association, Drouot Auction House, Paris, France
Donation of artwork What’d I Ray, Ohr Torah School
in Toulouse, Hôtel de l’Industrie, Paris, France
Donation of artwork Tenderness, Rescuers without
Borders Organization (NGO), Hôtel du
Collectionneur, Paris, France
Donation of artwork Sway, Les Rois du Monde
(NGO), Cirque Alexis Gruss, Paris, France
2015 Donation of artwork Mr. Mouse, Les Rois du Monde
(NGO), Paris, France
Donation of artwork Love is All You Need, Rescuers
without Borders Organization, Annual Gala, Paris,
France
2014 Donation of artwork Only Love, Téléthon, Drouot
Auction House, Paris, France
Participant, Les Violons du Coeur, Drouot, Paris,
France
Participant, F.R.C. (Brain Research Federation),
Artcurial Auction House, Paris, France
Participant, Wizo Association, Christie’s Auction
House, Paris, France
2018 Patrick Rubinstein: Kinetic Pop Art, Book
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
2018 Maurice and Paul Marciano Art Foundation,
Los Angeles, CA
2016 Porrentruy Optical Art Museum, Porrentruy,
Switzerland
2014 Copelouzos Art Museum, Athens, Greece
SOLO AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 Mensing Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
Mensing Gallery, Hannover, Germany
Mensing Gallery, Cologne, Germany
Mensing Gallery, Essen, Germany
Mensing Gallery, Konstanz, Germany
Mensing Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Bel Air Fine Art Gallery, London, UK
Bel Air Fine Art Gallery, Paris, France
Bel Air Fine Art Gallery, Fort dei Marmi, Italy
Art Club Gallery, Lyon, France
Montmartre Gallery, Paris, France
Saint Martin Gallery, Arcachon, France
2017 Mensing Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
Mensing Gallery, Sylt, Germany
Mensing Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany
Mensing Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Mensing Gallery, Konstanz, Germany
Perahia Gallery, Paris, France
Perahia Gallery, Lille, France
Skoufa Gallery, Mykonos, Greece
Skoufa Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece
Momentum Gallery, Knokke-Heist, Belgium
SCOPE Art Fair, Vivendi Gallery, Miami, FL
2016 Louiza Auktion Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Montmartre Gallery, Paris, France
Opera Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Bartoux Gallery, Honfleur, France
2015 Bel Air Fine Art, Beirut, Lebanon
Banus Gallery, Marbella, Spain
Chataigneraie Tennis Club, Rueil-Malmaison, France
2014 Shanghai Art Fair, Shanghai, China
Opera Gallery, Seoul, Korea
BolognaFiere SH Contemporary, Shanghai, China
Bartoux Gallery, Singapore
Light Solution, Palais d’lena, Paris, France
2013 Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris France
2012 Normandy Gallery, Honfleur, France
Shanghai Art Fair, Shanghai, China
Cornette de Saint Cyr Auction House, Paris, France
Perahia Gallery, Paris, France
2011 Siel de Paris Art Fair, Paris, France
Art Shopping Art Fair, Paris, France
2010 Artcurial Auction House, Paris France
2009 Artcurial Auction House, Paris France
AWARDS
2013 Ranked 89th place amoung the top 100 best-selling
French artists