Périgueux: Between raw gestures and calligraphic precision, Rony exhibits at L'app'Art
The painter and street artist is showcasing his paintings all week at the Périgueux gallery. These abstract works are marked by a duality between technical mastery and gestural spontaneity.
"Mystery": this word recurs in all of Rony's works exhibited since June 30 at L'app'Art. The seven letters of this word are affixed to each of these paintings without anyone being able to clearly distinguish them. "What I like are letters, it's Japanese, Chinese, Arabic calligraphy," explains Rony.
The artist's style is split in two: raw paintings on one side and meticulous ones on the other. The exhibition thus plays on a duality. Large wood fiber panels covered with colored acrylics face smaller paintings drawn with markers. For someone who started out with street art in the streets of Toulouse, the creation always remains raw in his larger pieces. "I drop paint, splash it," explains Rony. It's also to rediscover this raw aspect that he chose "Isorel" as his playground. It's these compressed wood fiber panels that he appreciates so much. "They have rounded edges, they're a little warped and not necessarily flat. It's this imperfect side that I like."
Works by instinctThe artist is very productive in his creation; it takes him less than a day to paint one of his large paintings. "The longest part is the drying time," says Rony ironically. A drying time that is nevertheless necessary, because his canvases superimpose a wide palette of colors. "In my paintings, I go by instinct, I start with a color for the background and the rest follows. I start from the principle that all the colors go together," explains the artist.
"I don't try to convey a message with my works," says Rony. He prefers to give free rein to the viewers' imagination. The paintings have no exact meaning, but are nonetheless inspired by the music he listens to while painting them. The songs he listens to remain etched in his works. "The title I give to the painting is that of the song I'm listening to at the time I sign."
The exhibition is on display until Saturday, July 5 at L'app'Art (10 rue Arago in Périgueux) from 2:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. A meeting with the artist is scheduled for Wednesday, July 2 at 6:30 p.m.
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