Patrick Roger (1968 - )
Biography
Patrick Roger, born July 9, 1968 in Poislay in the Loiret-Cher, is a French chocolate sculptor.
Patrick Roger is one of those outsiders, off the beaten track, he creates his own trace. Coming from nowhere and therefore from everywhere. No museum before the age of 24, no drawing classes and even less Fine Arts, it is simply called an innate gift.
He started working with chocolate in sculpture in the 2000s. A love of instinctive aesthetics. An insolent mastery of the material, pushes him to create again and again, always faster.
To tame the ephemeral black gold and make it an eternal metal. Through his works, Patrick Roger bears witness to the world around us. Of his vision of this world sometimes crazy, sometimes sensitive, sometimes cruel. Of what touches him, what animates him, those he loves...
Each piece is imbued with emotions, first the look, then the touch. The prerogative of chocolate as the primary matrix, without a doubt. Patrick Roger is the only sculptor who uses chocolate as his master material.
The result is a unique texture of the works. Smooth, rough, stratified, the material has as much state as mood. In order to transcribe as well as possible these singular particularities, Patrick Roger works only with the best foundries, without dead ends on the result... as always.
Selected artworks
Patrick Roger (1968 - )
Empereur n°2
Patinated bronze casted in 2007. Signed on the bottom of the base, numbered 2/8 inscribed with foundry mark Strassacker.
44,50 x 30,70 x 28 cm / 17,52 x 12,10 x 11,02 in.
Patrick Roger (1968 - )
Empereur n°5
Patinated bronze casted in 2007. Signed on the left, numbered 3/8 inscribed with foundry mark Rosini.
78,50 x 29,80 x 28,70 cm / 30,90 x 11,73 x 11,30 in.
Patrick Roger (1968 - )
Empereur n°6
Patinated bronze casted in 2007. Signed on the left, numbered 1/8 inscribed with foundry mark Rosini.
53,40 x 29 x 28,70 cm / 21,02 x 11,42 x 11,30 in.
Patrick Roger (1968 - )
Gérard 1
Patinated bronze casted in 2015. Signed on the base, numbered EA III/IV. Foundry Strassacker.
250 x 120 x 100 cm / 98,43 x 47,24 x 39,37 in.
Patrick Roger (1968 - )
Abnégation
Patinated bronze casted in 2010. Signed on the back, numbered 3/8 inscribed with foundry mark Rosini.
58 x 14,30 x 7,60 cm / 22,83 x 5,63 x 3 in.
Patrick Roger (1968 - )
Tout œuf poli-miroir
Mirror polished golden bronze casted in 2008. Signed on the right, numbered 4/8. Foundry Rosini.
29 x 28 x 19 cm/ 11,42 x 11,02 x 7,48 in.
Main exhibitions
2023
BAD - Art Fair - Booth Galerie Sarto - Bordeaux, France
PAD - Art Fair - Booth Galerie Sarto - Paris, France
2020
Genèses Acte I - Retrospective exhibition - Galerie Sarto 3 rue de Solférino et 89 rue de Lille 75007 - Paris, France
Genèses Acte II - Retrospective exhibition - Galerie Adda & Sarto, 35 avenue Matignon 75008 - Paris, France
2018
Travel Travel(er) - 21_21 Design Sight - Tokyo, Japon
2017
Elephant Paname - Paris, France Entrez en matières - Christie’s Paris, 9 avenue Matignon 75008 - Paris, France
2015
La sculpture a du goût - Biennale de Montreux - Montreux, Suisse
2008
Grand Palais - Avenue Winston Churchill 75008 - Paris, France