Art-o-rama
Romain Blanck
28.08 - 31.08.25

For Art-o-rama, French/German artist Romain Blanck presents a series of paintings, inviting us to look closer at the traces and objects we leave behind, to rethink their value and to look at them as containers of stories and life.

The paintings from the ongoing series EG, the German abbreviation for “Ground Floor,” propose a displacement of the windows the artist observes during his daily walks. Each work consists of a grid of dark grey painted panels decorated with what could appear to be children’s drawings or brightly colored stickers. Each work is augmented with a small shelf containing figurines or small found objects. These were bought from flea markets or eBay, found left on the artist's apartment staircase or gifted from friends and family. They are reimagined, sampled and refigured versions of the ground floor windows Blanck has continuously photographed on his regular walks. He has especially been drawn to the window glue paint and small toys, souvenirs and ornaments left on display that could be characterized as cartoon-like, cheap, or even naive. It is through these personalized decorations and objects, that the windows not only become openings into houses but a multitude of crossed narratives.

By recognizing these objects as traces of time passed and witnesses to lived experience, Blanck not only questions their inherent value as images and artworks but he also forces us to reevaluate our own value systems of looking at images and objects.

Press:
monopol-magazin.de/kunstmesse-art-o-rama
ocula.com/european-galleries-flock-marseille-art-o-rama