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Artists
BIOGRAPHY
Pedro Ruxa (b. 1993) has been living in Brussels for several years where he studied at the Painting Workshop of ENSAV La Cambre. His painting claims to be an emotional and sensitive painting, both of which can be observed in his pictorial gesture and the themes he investigates, which are often rooted in personal experience and daily life. Shapes, colours, materials, but also letters, words and quotations contribute to articulate a polymorphic and composite language that aspires to convey an impression or an emotion more than a meaning or a restrictive message. In Ruxa’s work, words are painted in a way that is both plastic and pictorial, vibrant and radiant, warm and luminous, hence, standing out from the dark silence of the black backgrounds. One could also observe their ephemerality, as if Pedro Ruxa wanted, in a retinal way, to express their elusiveness to us.
Biography by Emmanuel Lambion, excerpts from the text published on the occasion of the exhibition With Silence We Speak.
Education
- 2016
- 2011
ESA António Arroio, Londres
Residencies
- 2016
SECONDroom
Gent. Invited by Florian Kiniques
Coordinated by Ben Benaouisse, Steve Reynders and Kristof Van Heeschvelde
EXHIBITIONS
- SOLO SHOWS2019
Emotional Reflections, Galerie M, Toulouse, France
Reality looks like, Window Space, Bruxelles, Belgique
With silence we speak, commissariat de Emmanuel Lambion, V2Vingt, Bruxelles, Belgique
- 2016
The morning after, Rossicontemporary, Bruxelles, Belgique
- 2015
Memórias de um átomo, le Botanique , Bruxelle, Belgique, ENSAV La Cambre
- GROUP SHOWS2020
Sweethearts, commissariat de Barbara Club, Bruxelles, Belgique
TOUJOURS, commissariat de Pourceux, pal project, Paris, France
Au Pied de la Lettre, commissariat de Philippe Marchal, Autonomie Arts Center, Bruxelles, Belgique
Inside-Out, commissariat de Maëlle Delaplanche and Pierre-Yves Desaive, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Bruxelles, Belgique
Raumwww, commissariat d Daniel Hhan and Johannes Mundiguer (online)
Art Cares Covid, commissariat de Mäelle de La Planche and Sandrine Morgante (online)
Les Mots Bleus, with François Patoue, l’USINE, Bruxelles, Belgique
- 2019
Systema, commissariat de Jean-Samuel N’Sengi, Cinema Palace, Bruxelles, Belgique
Pour une peinture sans image, Galerie du CROUS, Paris, France
Tchao Paulo, Studio Lieds, Bruxelles, Belgique
Shape to Echo, EspaceX68, Bruxelles, Belgique
Teenage Fever, Galerie M, Toulouse, France
- 2018
Open Studio, Ateliers Vandeweyer, Bruxelles, Belgique
- 2016
Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, 10th Garden Party & Auctions, MDD, Deurle, Belgique, Nominé par Lodovico Corsini de C L E A R I N G
- 2014
Young-Talents Selection of the AAFAIR, commissariat de Adeline d’Ursel, Tour et Taxis, Bruxelles, Belgique
Publications
- 2020
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