Hyper-realistic drawing, psychedelic colors, saturated areas, very tight closeups (on unbelievable eyes of abyssal creatures or luminescent timber), the absence of horizon and perspective…
At the borders of actuality and fiction, Romain Bernini’s work plunge us right into a troubled universe, both acquainted and unusual: a closed world with acidulous and washed-out colors, just like a present stage flooded with vibrant lights, a kind of flashy no-man’s land or Interzone, to use the title of considered one of his paintings.
We see man confronted with the animal and pure phenomena, not as a tamer or predator, but as a “easy observer” – a solitary and circumspect, or perhaps apprehensive, observer.
Them and Us, them and me, the title chosen by the artist for this exhibition, reflects this mixture of distancing and proximity between man and animal that he levels in a wierd nose to nose, which he maintains with us. It is a double feeling of familiarity and strangeness that we feel when taking a look at his paintings.
Associating heterogeneous parts, even antinomic (the banality of the clothes worn by its characters evoking the urbanity and the exoticism of its fauna evoking the jungle), mixing the registers (hyperrealism or photographic realism and unrealism of the colors), typically pushing the incongruity to the abnormality (a smudged face evoking primitive work, another, all bluish, the face of a mutant), Bernini’s work plunge us right into a troubled world where the apparent normality is consistently challenged by anomalies, shifts, disproportions, distortions… A disruptive world, illusory, fantasized, which, like a home of playing cards, appears in peril of collapsing at any time, of disappearing and dissolving into the glittering dust of goals… In the identical method, his backgrounds, pure abstractions, appear to dissolve of their shimmering and luminous coulures, plunging us into the indetermination…
Exhibition Romain Bernini – Them and Us
Suzanne Tarasiève Gallery – 5, rue Debelleyme, Paris III –
From 9th September to 16th October
STÉPHANIE DULOUT
L’article ROMAIN BERNINI : Interzone est apparu en premier sur Galerie Joseph.
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