20th-21st Century Spanish

A nephew of the painter Raimundo Patiño (1936-1985), Antón trained at the School of Fine Arts of Madrid and joined the Atlántica group whose mandate was to renew Galician art. Other members included his wife Menchu Lamas (1954). In 1975 and 1979 he received grants from the Pontevedra Town Council and in 1981 from the Spanish Ministry of Culture.

His output is defined by the intensity of his colours and its solid intellectual underpinning, with a restrained and thoroughly studied palette and a special focus on texture, revealing his interest in . Patiño also makes repeated use of what he calls “primordial emblems” or “root signs” such as the wing alluding to the myth of Icarus, chairs, a cyclist, amphorae or fragments of nets. He has exhibited his work in solo exhibitions in many Spanish cities, and also in Amsterdam, New York, Paris, Zurich, Stuttgart, Bordeaux and Hamburg.

Patiño combines his work as a painter with his activity as a writer and theorist.