LipanjePuntin in Trieste, Trieste, Italy | Art Gallery

LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea

LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea Art Gallery in Trieste (Italy) is pleased to present MadeInJapan, a solo show by Romain Erkiletlian (1972, Paris - France).

Romain Erkiletlian’s paintings might represent the totality of his process that includes photographs, retouched photographs and drawings on vellum as well as a video exploration. All of those creative steps together become the essence of the work, each step nourishing the other.

Erkiletlian’s research is based on what he defines the “interaction between structure and figure”, putting together geometrical shapes, coming from his photographs of streets and architecture, and human figures drawing. During the past year, the French artist has been working on the perception of the shape, mixing photographic and pictorial elements. Erkiletlian retouch photographic prints with color pencil, acrylic pen or marker. In some of the works the manual retouch is discreet, in some other it becomes more evident than the initial image that almost disappears.

In MadeInJapan at the LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea Art Gallery the visual chaos and confusion in the Japanese urban landscape is abstractly reorganized and recycled into a new reality. Through impossible perspectives, colors and the use of different pictorial languages, that new reality creates an unidentified unity of form, architecture, space and time.
These lines, flat surfaces, pointillism, and particular patterns create a plethora of little universes that seem to exist by themselves inside the paintings, but eventually become all together a coherent ensemble.

Romain Erkiletlian graduated in 1995 from the École de Communication Visuelle in Paris. He lives in New York working with important American and European galleries. In Italy the French artist has participated in ArteFiera in Bologna, MiArt in Milan and Artissima in Turin. His work has been recently exhibited at the Sandra Gering Gallery and at Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts in New York and at Galleria Pack in Milan on the occasion of the exhibition titled Corpo Sociale, curated by Laurent Hegy.

With the support of Casa dell'Arte - Trieste.