PATO BOSICH:

ALL THINGS SHINING

Art & Talking, Chipping Norton 

Saturday 1st to Sunday 30th November 2025

London-based Chilean artist, Pato Bosich, will return to Art & Talking in Chipping Norton this November with a new exhibition of works on paper and façade.

‘All Things Shining,’ is a collection of Bosich’s ongoing body of work, inspired by the British Museum’s collections of Mesoamerican, Egyptian, Greek, Mesopotamian and other antiquities. Through the mediums of pencil, ink and wine, Bosich has developed this imaginative series over a period of more than ten years. Both on-site, at the museum and in his studio; he would often continue working on the drawings, expanding upon them with his unique dream-like visions conveyed through the drawn fragments. 

The exhibition opens an extraordinary dialogue between the contemporary artist’s Latin American cultural sensibility and the British Museum’s collection of antiquities, viewed through a Eurocentric prism. In many ancient cultures, the supernatural and the fantastic are accessed through anthropomorphism, the hybrid fusion of animal and human forms. Ancient art has an evocative presence that is never merely visual. Bosich’s multi-sensory response to the antiquities give a tactile, textured quality to his drawings. Symbols are embodied to play and multiply with each other and new forms are reconfigured as the artist navigates these ancient époques. 

His drawings catalyse an artistic ‘time-travel’; a fusion of past, present, and future into a cohesive whole. The artworks are a playful, vibrant and sensual dance between what is observed and what is suggested. Something vital and instinctual, unshaped by culture, encouraging a reconnection with the primeval realm. 

“By drawing directly from artifacts, in their presence, I necessarily disrupt their equilibrium. As if I ‘open them up’, but not by deconstructing or interpreting them. I create a disbalance, a void on the page based on instinct. Through that void, that open space, I later re-enter. When successful, the new artwork brings about its own harmony, its own magic equilibrium akin to the original but this time contemporary.” 

Pato Bosich, Artist 

“These works are Bosich’s unique response to the materiality and iconography of the antiquities, and his fascination for their fragmentation over the course of history.” 

James Putnam, Curator and Writer 

About Pato Bosich 

Pato Bosich was born in Chile in 1978, studied fine art in London where he lives and works. He has exhibited internationally in galleries and public museums. This selection covers works done from 2016 to the present. 

His website is https://patobosich.com/