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We finished all clips about the Wallbreakers event: More than 10! clips will be presented right here in February...check them out and drop us a line, if you like that stuff.
Thanks to everybody involved in this Festival!
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Outdoors, organic and in love with the process and pure pleasure of painting, ROA is an artist who tends not to hold on too tightly. His lines are clear, but between them we can read ambiguity; the common denominator being a fascination for the texture of trashed facades and neglected spaces. Invading the abandoned, he brings animals to life only to leave them dead on the wall for your consideration. While there is generally a relationship between dead organisms and dead space, it isn’t always clear what he wishes to reveal in the rot. That things are rotting however, cannot be avoided.
These animals appear to represent their own fate and speak of a contemporary situation where nature is no longer natural and many of us cannot help but be estranged from our origins. While he started with pre-historic monsters and the fragility of evolution (even for the giants), this body has evolved into a more timeless inquiry as living creatures like birds and pigs begun to appear repeatedly in his work.
That these works are often black and white is not a question of mere facility, but a choice, which allows him to spray in a fashion that is faithful to how he sketches. From this viewer’s eyes, the shadows, etchings and hatched lines sometimes seem more like charcoal than spray paint. Both technically and poetically, his pieces are striking, thoughtful and faster than the tale they tell.
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