Paul Rouphail "June, July & August"

Join us this Thursday for the opening preview of Paul Rouphail’s fourth exhibition with the gallery!

As in the first page of a book or the introductory scene of a movie, the painting says, “you are here”. This proclamation where space and time merge is at the heart of Paul Rouphail's work. Space is explored throughout the exhibition, combining of elements and techniques reminiscent of the Hudson River School, American Regionalism, and the history of cinema. In three of the ten new paintings, time is represented ambiguously and ominously by calendar dates, painted in plain, cream-white lettering.

In quoting the the manner in which a film by French director Eric Rohmer is chaptered or in which a domestic interior of a Yazujiro Ozu film is staged, Rouphail’s use of illusory markers of time give the viewer a starting point: the impression of a moment, the seasonality of a feeling. In the artist’s pantings, what appears to be precisely staged is not frozen, but is merely an echo. June, July & August is both a memory and a premonition. — Eloïse Duguay

📅 Public Opening
Thursday, October 9
⏰ 5–8 PM

📍Stems Gallery Brussels
4 rue du Prince Albert 1050 Brussels

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