Patrick Mimran

Haute-Rive Contemporary has the exclusive right to sell all the works of the artist Patrick Mimran . We focus on excellence and present and sell the artist’s most beautiful works.

Patrick Mimran was born in Paris in 1956 and has been painting since childhood. Nothing in Patrick Mimran’s life has ever separated his hands from his ideas.
At twenty-four he took over Automobili Lamborghini.
The company was struggling, but it still had a culture where engineers and sculptors worked in the same building and argued over the same curve.
In the years that followed, he brought the Countach to its most complete form, produced the LM, the first high-performance off-road car and the ancestor of every super-SUV sold today, and laid down the Diablo, which carried the marque into the next decade. He also built marine V12 engines that won world offshore powerboat championships.
Those years were not an interruption of his artistic life. They were part of its formation. A car of that kind is a proportion and a work of art before it is a machine: you approve a line in the morning, and a few months later two hundred people have made a prototype in aluminum, and either it is right or the object is merely fast.
Working at the point where art and technology meet sharpened his eye, taught him the discipline of execution, and convinced him that this was the direction to continue in.
There is an older tradition in which the two were never considered separate disciplines at all, and Italy is where it was invented during a period of cultural renewal called the Renaissance.
So when he sold the company in 1987, he did not change careers. He continued.
Since then, he has painted every day, starting with encaustic paintings and moving to acrylic and oil with the achromatic works and the White Light series, in which he reduces the work until only the physical gesture remains—silence, essentially. The black & white and the polychrome paintings, where noise becomes music once it is structured intelligently; photography; electronic music; and the Billboard Project, which has placed his aphorisms on walls in New York, Milan, Florence, and Venice, interpellating passers-by by questioning art and its participants. He makes art with the same rigor and enthusiasm he had when making the world’s most beautiful cars. He approached the creation of his art with the same diligence and passion that he used to construct the world’s most exquisite automobiles.

We have as well in our collection Master works of Larry Rivers, Ron Kitaj, Richard Lindner, Ernst Fuchs, Jean Dubuffet, Max Ernst, Leonor Fini, Jules Pascin, Mané-Katz, Moise Kisling, Haim Soutine, Otto Dix, Toulouse Lautrec, Edgar Degas, Sandro Botticelli, Tiziano Vecellio

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