Bruno V. Roels. Trying To Make It Real - Part I & II
| Language: Multilingual: English/French |
| Cover: Paperback |
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Bringing many years of work together in a single place, here on the
page, rather than on the walls of a museum or gallery, we can consider
both senses in which Roels thinks images are worth repeating. In the
obstinate and dedicated labour of printing and arranging serial, but
different, versions of single images together; and then also with regard
to the overall effect of bringing these iterations of themselves into
the same space. But there is another sense in which we might find
Roels’s work echoing not only itself, but that of those that came before
him; and that, funnily enough, is in his refusal to take himself, or
his work, too seriously. Just seriously enough, it seems, to invest
time, effort, and skill into the production of his complex and subtly
nuanced work, but never to the point, that, like Ruscha before him, (the
artist who made Various Small Fires and Milk), he finds himself unable
to resist, and more importantly, to play with, the constraints of his
own logic. A little like Dalí too, perhaps, who, captivated as he was by
the potential of photography to document and catalogue the world, was
also sure that this very capacity would result in us never being able to
see anything in the same way, ever again. From ‘the subtlety of
aquaria’ as Dalí himself put it ’to the fastest most fleeting gestures
of wild animals, the photograph affords us a thousand fragmentary images
culminating in a dramatized cognitive totalization.’ That too, is
something worth repeating. –Simon Baker
“I think images are worth repeating.”
ISBN:
9789464002041
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