Patrick Conrad

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Patrick Conrad (born 16 July 1945 in Antwerp) is a Flemish painter, poet, screenwriter and novelist, and one of the founders of The Pink Poets. He also directed about twenty movies for cinema and television, including – selected for the Cannes Festival - the international cult film Mascara. As a painter and collage artist he showed his work in about 40 solo exhibitions in Belgium and France and three retrospective exhibitions of his work: in 1975 (Museum of Fine Arts of Antwerp), in 2005 (Museum Elzenveld, Antwerp) and in 2022 in the Verbeke Foundation. His work is part of important private collections in France, Belgium, England, Scotland, Germany, Holland, Denmark, Australia and U.S. He lived 34 years in the south of France and moved in 2023 to Porto Alegre, Brasil. In Belgium he is represented by the Paul Verbeke gallery which published several art books about his work.

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