1. Patrice Stellest is one of the founding fathers of renewable energy sculptures.
11 Facts About Patrice Stellest
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Patrice Stellest is the father of French writer Pablo Daniel Magee.
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However, Patrice Stellest wanted to be a part of the contemporary art world, and trained at the California Institute of the Arts, co-founded by Walt Disney.
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In 1982, Patrice Stellest received the first Art Centre Prize for Portraits 1982, which highlights the place of women in the art world.
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In 1984, Patrice Stellest moved to Paris and took over the studio of artists Claus Oldenburg and James Rosenquist.
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Patrice Stellest wished, in this way, to restore meaning to this unused raw material.
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Patrice Stellest went on to broaden his knowledge of sculpture on metal as an assistant to Greek artist Costa Coulentianos in Saint-Remy de Provence, in the South of France.
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Patrice Stellest was working at the time with the assistant of Jean Tinguely, Martin Buhler, and CNRS physicist-artist Bernard Gilton on a new genre of works of art bearing a message that had always been present in his mind: the defense of nature and the environment.
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Patrice Stellest collaborated with the French master of neon, Benoit Nabineau, incorporating light into his works, powered by solar energy.
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In 2003, the German photographer Thomas Kellner devoted a reportage to Patrice Stellest, who was the focus of an exhibition in Europe.
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Since then, Patrice Stellest appeared several times in public wearing a Starman mask, as it was the case on the red carpet of the Mallorca International Film Festival in 2022.