Artists

Ross Bleckner

Press release

Public Opening
January 16, 2025, 4 – 7 pm
Avenue Louise 430, Brussels 1050
In the presence of the artist

In Commune, delicate outlines of figures, plants, sinuous lines and colour fields seem flooded with light, as if briefly arising in our visual field from the iridescent dark ground. The compositions at times flicker in our perception, shifting from abstract shapes, to celestial bodies, to human heads. They are reflections on the possibility of communing with the external world and the importance of empathy with others during the moments of social and political turmoil. As the artist notes, “To commune with someone, to commune with something is the blending of you and something outside of yourself, something bigger than you. Hopefully that’s what’s being an artist, and that is what art is about.”

In Two Meet Again, radiant lines overlap and dance in space, configuring into an ethereal image of an encounter between two people. Ghost-like and transparent, the figures appear to float on the verge of recognition, suggesting a fleeting thought or a mental image of human relations. Part of an important series dedicated to the memory of a close friend of the artist, Two Meet Again is a meditation on the possibility of holding onto an image or a sense of presence of another over time. Intertwining with each other and with the outer network of lines, the figures are continually in a state of becoming, arising and disappearing, transcending the weight of loss through the awareness of the present moment.