Stefan Heyne

JÉRÔME ROBBE

b. 1988, France. JÉRÔME ROBBE

b. 1988, France.

Jérôme Robbe lives and works in the SW of France.

Painting naturally has a certain liquid quality. Robbe lets the paint flow freely and creates an image that contains an immense temporality. For him, fluidity means freedom. The artist heats the plexiglass. It becomes soft, expands and the surface turns into ripples and cracks. The artist then had some water vaporized above the plexiglass. The mist slowly whirls down on the panel. The transparent varnish coloured with pigments then is poured over it and finds its way across the deformed surface, just as a river follows its bed. Gravity and chance do their job. It evokes associations with a horizon or a river through which the abstract monochromes can also be seen as landscape paintings. That landscape is reflected in the process: the pouring of the varnish on the irregular panel, the undulating landscape.

JÉRÔME ROBBE

“Il n’y pas de génie dans la peinture, il y a que des inventions. La génie réside dans l’invention des matériaux pour pouvoir peindre différemment, autrement, mieux.” “Painting has nothing to do with genius, but everything with inventions. The genius lies in inventing materials and techniques that make it possible to paint differently and better.”

Untitled - 2017 150x100cm Coloured varnishes on thermoformed mirror plexiglass Untitled - 2018 130x100cm Coloured varnishes on thermoformed mirror plexiglass

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JÉRÔME ROBBE

Untitled - 2014 150x100cm Coloured varnishes on thermoformed mirror plexiglass Untitled - 2016 200x150cm Coloured varnishes on thermoformed mirror plexiglass Untitled - 2015 200x150cm Coloured varnishes on thermoformed mirror plexiglass

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JÉRÔME ROBBE

Untitled N°16-20 150x200cm £13,600 Varnish on Perspex mirror Untitled N°19-02 99.8x150cm £8,600 Varnish on Perspex mirror Untitled N°19-01 99.8x150cm £8,600 Varnish on Perspex mirror

PETROC SESTI

b. 1973, London. PETROC SESTI

b. 1973, London.

Petroc Sesti is a British artist, born in London where he currently lives and works. Sesti’s work pushes the boundaries of art and science and goes beyond both. He is particularly interested in themes such as motion, chaos, light, and the void, exploring in particular the ever-changing relationships between artwork, the environment and the viewer.

His work speaks to the global wealth of symbolism associated with moving water, clouds and the fluid environment, as seen in the Chinese philosophical notions of Qi, the force that makes up and binds together all the things in the universe, paradoxically at once everything and nothing. This relates to his ongoing fascination with movement and the Void, as seen across his entire practice. His passion for science and cosmology fuel his enquiry into how to contain and display raw energy states and notions of the sublime. This manifests in a broad spectrum of artworks and mediums, be it through complex mechanical pieces, made in collaboration with some of the world’s leaders in earth and space observation or replicating solar flares by detonating gunpowder on paper. His work has been exhibited internationally in private and public collections including the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris, the 13th Manifesta Biennale in France, and represented Great Britain at the 9th Shanghai Biennale. Other exhibitions and collections of note include the Qatar Foundation, the ICA London and the New Shanghai Museum Of Contemporary Art. His work is held worldwide in a number of permanent collections including: MONA Museum Tasmania, the Kistefos Museum Norway, the Boghossian Foundation Brussels, YUZI Museum China, Rockefeller Collection New York, Rem Koolhaas’s Qatar Foundation HQ, Manhattan Loft Gardens Stratford International London, and Norman Foster’s Yacht Club Monaco.

PETROC SESTI

A Sci-fi Sublime And I have felt…a sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused, Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, And the round ocean and the living air, And the blue sky, and in the mind of man: A motion and a spirit, that impels. All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things. Extract from ‘Tintern Abbey’, William Wordworth, 1798

Scorpuis Triptych 133x95cm POA

Binary Black Holes 177x177cm POA

PETROC SESTI

Scorpius Star Cluster 155x155cm POA The latest articulations of Sesti’s ongoing desire to sculpt and depict the void, the intricate light boxes and sculptural paintings that make upthis series combine an elegant, minimal aesthetic with a deep engagement with the latest scientific data on their subjects – stars and blackholes. Laser-cutting punctures the surfaces of both with almost microscopic precision to represent, in a neat inversion of scale, galaxies and voids. For the Romantic poets the wildness of Nature was set against the effects industrialization and urbanisation that was beginning to irrevocably change their world. They found in sublime vistas of sky, sea and land both refuge and other wells of meaning beyond thehuman. Sesti’s series with its own Romantic engagement with the vastness of the universe, should also give us pause to reflect on our ravagedworld, in which we still stand, still searching wonder. ‘Nick Hackworth’ - Creative Director Modern Forms

POA to view at BPS.

PETROC SESTI

Milky Ways POA

Various sizes available. Custom made. Please contact us for further information..