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NICOLAS ROGGY

1980

France

Bornin Le Blanc, France
Lives and works in Paris

Geometrical shapes are repeated on or under large colour sections. Certain elements on his canvasses echo the extra-pictorial world, like letraset collages (lines, dots and curves) and the types of markers used by architects to designate certain areas, densities or shadowing on their plans. If not landscapes, Roggy’s work is a portrayal of spaces that bear the trace of the time needed to shape them. Depth, perspective, surface—all are part of his “spirited” painting.

NicolasRoggy graduated from the Regional School of Fine Arts in Nantes with a DNSEPHigher National Diploma in Plastic Art Expression in 2005. He is follower ofabstract art - not “constructed” abstract art based on optimistic rationality,but rather the deconstructionism of the 1980s and 1990s. His work has all thetraits of a demolition company, moulding the surfaces of his canvasses byconstantly excavating, sanding, baring and turning. Motifs appear hidden byother motifs or layers and superimposed colours. Nicolas Roggy features incollections of the Limousin and Pays de la Loire French Regional ContemporaryArt Funds (FRAC).