APALAZZOGALLERY is delighted to present its next exhibition, Facings, dedicated to the French artist Nicolas Roggy.This exhibition marks the artist’s first solo show with the gallery and showcases a significant collection of works created exclusively for this occasion.
Roggy’s abstract work focuses on the painting process by superposing successive layers, then removing some parts by scratching, to better reveal additions of visual elements including stencil and silkscreen patterns. His abstract paintings, visually punctuated by music and its vibrations, come out from this spontaneous process. His paintings are highly constructed to the point of absurdity. But as complex as they are, their workings are finely tuned for one simple purpose. One tells the passing of time, and the other unveils the image as a machine. Nevertheless, Roggy’s art is neither formulaic nor does it follow a certain routine. His paintings function as images. Particularly when seen from afar, they emerge like hard facts. From a closer view, the image breaks down with a puzzling effect, into a dysfunctional plastic category.
The exhibition is accompanied by a text by Fiona Vilmer.
OPENING
Saturday, 15 November
6-8 pm
