Blanck Romain










Based on an almost true story

Tha House, Madrid
25.10.2024 - 05.11.2024








How to save drafts

Emerge Project space, Pescara
26.05.2024 - 30.06.2024

(...) We can experience a sense of general alienation more if we pay attention to the vertical structures that exist scattered throughout the exhibition spaces. This is the result of a site-specific operation designed during the week of residency, it isthe affirmation of how that effect of visual redundancy generates mental short circuits. Seeking a clear separation between real and non-real becomesa truly arduous undertaking. The inscriptions on the installation as well as the painted stickers are both popular manifestations brought here to staytogether in a situation that exists at the limit of the collective and the individual action. Once again, all of us are called to observe in the complex situation of understanding a sensation of deja-vu with blurred contours. (...)

text : Maurizio Vicere
photos : Pierluigi Fabrizio































































































Faux raccord

Wecollect, Madrid
07.09.2023 - 21.10.2023

(...) A door opening the wrong way, an actor disappearing, a towel changing color, nothing escapes the sharp eyes of Michel and Michel, the duo who spot blunders and editing errors. The title of the exhibition “Faux raccord” shares its namesake from a mini web-series from 2010 broadcast on Allociné. With humour and sarcasm, this series shows us the continuity errors and anachronisms in various movies.

The two voiceovers characters share the same first name, which they play with by constantly repeating it in everyepisode. For this exhibition Romain Blanck’s paintings all share the same photoshop file as their source, consisting of scans from various found test papers where strangers have tried out markers and pencils. This source file was the starting point for each painting, where the same shapes and lines have been duplicated, replaced by similar ones, covered by filters, and turned around from one painting to another, creating an ensemble of false twins.(...)

Bien à vous, Hotel Pasteur, Rennes, 2023 / Groupshow Production Generator 40mcube

L5R3, acrylic on canvas, 240x180cm, 2023

L2R2, acrylic on canvas, 240x180cm, 2023
Bien à vous

Hotel Pasteur, Rennes
23.02.2023 - 02.03.2023

(...) En exécutant des protocoles préalablement définis de manière répétée, il développe des techniques qui imitent le comportement mécanique et docile des machines typographiques, comme s’il devenait lui-même un automate ou une imprimante, capable de reproduction de grande qualité. Et bien qu’il soit seul à exécuter toutes les phases de production, l’artiste disparaît derrière ses réappropriations. Il simule des gestes vivaces et nerveux tout en jouant avec un vocabulaire des plus standardisés, tandis qu’il désaffecte ses œuvres de ses émotions. Les feuilles de tests qu’il réemploie sont, à première vue, dépourvues de tout contenu sémantique et de tout engagement affectif. Elles contiennent de l’information anonyme qui compose une sorte d’écriture, bousculant le principe même d’originalité, que la création académique érige en valeur suprême. Nous sommes tenté·es de voir un lien entre l’effacement de la subjectivité de l’artiste et le brouillage des identités que les réseaux sociaux favorisent. (...)

text : Lila Torquéo























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