Ever since Frank
Stella asked his students the famous question
“…what is painting?”a great variety
of new positions in painting have emerged. One of the most
subtle standpoints is advocated by the young Belgian
artist, working in Berlin,
Julien Rouvroy. Through
strategies of seduction Rouvroy manages to gently guide the
spectator into a seemingly innocent world of
children’s games and discoveries, until he realises
how subverted the pictorial motifs are. In his current
series, exemplarily titled “Wunderkind”, girls
and boys that are engrossed in their playing and their
togetherness are common themes...
1979 born in
Paris, lives and works in Berlin
GROUP shows:
2000 Cousco, DAMN!at 12 o'clock, Brussels
2001 Parcour d'Artistes de Saint Gilles, Brussels
2002 piano manufactory, Brussels
Fango Gallery, Cottbus
2005 Preview Berlin
2006 Scope Hamptons
SOLO shows:
2000 Bateau Lavoir, Brussels/2003Artspace
Bruxelles,Brussels/
2004 Gallery Kang Sabel, Berlin/
2006 White Trash Contemporary Hamburg
