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OPEN STUDIO : ROMUALD DUMAS-JANDOLO

Wednesday 16 May 2018 - 6.30PM


The CAC – la synagogue de Delme invites you to the open studio of Romuald Dumas-Jandolo on Wednesday 16th May at 6.30 pm at 10b rue des cigognes, Lindre-Basse.

 

"From the first works created at the beginning of the 2010s to his recent pieces, Romuald Dumas-Jandolo has been deploying a whole world of contrasts and ambivalences, which he is gradually establishing as a method: gloomy and flamboyant, grotesque and heroic, serious and light-hearted—he offers all of these faces at the same time. He distils this same metamorphic energy in his installations, drawings, films, and sculptures made of ceramic, burned wood or bronze. The heterogeneous whole gradually constructs the hallucinatory stage. (...)

In the context of his residency in Lindre-Basse, Romuald Dumas-Jandolo exhumes past memories and attempts to reconstruct a tattered genealogy. From a VHS tape that documents a complete performance by the family circus, the artist constructs a voiceover narrative that enables him to recover possession of aesthetically outdated archive images, in which the affability of the acts only faintly conceals a boundless sadness, and sometimes even the dread of ridiculousness and of the exploitation of bodies, both human and animal.

Alongside this half-realistic, half-fictional document, Romuald Dumas-Jandolo presents new works made of wood, fabric, embroidery or leather, as well as a series of glass ex-voto, which are supposed to be offered to the benevolent divinity, for redemption from all pain."

Marie Cozette, April 2018

 

The glasswork pieces were produced with the support of CIAV - Centre International d'Art Verrier de Meisenthal.

 

The artist residency programme is organised by the CAC - la synagogue de Delme in collaboration with the Lorraine Regional Natural Park and the Commune of Lindre-Basse.