Correspondances #2 - Ronny Delrue

4.00 (2 ratings by Goodreads)
Regular price €43.99
A01=Carine Fol
A01=Ory Dessau
A01=Philippe Cauteren
A01=Philippe Van Cauteren
A01=Ronny Delrue
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
artistletters
artists
artmonographs
Author_Carine Fol
Author_Ory Dessau
Author_Philippe Cauteren
Author_Philippe Van Cauteren
Author_Ronny Delrue
automatic-update
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=ACXJ
Category=AGA
Category=AGB
Category=AGC
Category=BJ
Category=DND
collages
contemporaryart
contemporarydrawing
COP=Belgium
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
drawings
eq_art-fashion-photography
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_non-fiction
Format=BC
Format_Paperback
Language_Dutch; Flemish
Language_English
Language_French
letters
PA=Available
painter
Price_€20 to €50
PS=Active
softlaunch

Product details

  • ISBN 9789463887328
  • Format: Paperback
  • Weight: 750g
  • Dimensions: 230 x 290mm
  • Publication Date: 20 Mar 2020
  • Publisher: Meta4Books vzw
  • Publication City/Country: BE
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: Dutch; Flemish, English, French
Delivery/Collection within 10-20 working days

Our Delivery Time Frames Explained
2-4 Working Days: Available in-stock

10-20 Working Days
: On Backorder

Will Deliver When Available
: On Pre-Order or Reprinting

We ship your order once all items have arrived at our warehouse and are processed. Need those 2-4 day shipping items sooner? Just place a separate order for them!

"Through the format of the letter and the correspondence, Delrue implements his stance with regard to the role of contemporary drawing as a valid generator of artistic languages and as a humble, yet effectively poetic alternative to the virtual circulation of digital images between the communication systems that surround us." - Ory Dessau, art critic

"The unique character and strength of Ronny Delrue's work are the result of his intense search for the essence of Being. [...] In a highly meticulous, almost obsessive way, he explores the sensitive fault line between control and loss of control. The process, the path, the quest is of fundamental importance to this exploration. The quest is not idiosyncratic, it is not inward, it allows room for dialogue with others, like a mirror image in which the encounter occurs, as in a crossover of minds." - Carine Fol, artistic director CENTRALE for Contemporary Art, Brussels

"What is more beautiful than the circle left on a piece of paper by a coffee cup, even if an algorithm can produce a lifelike imitation? What is even lovelier is the artists' ideas, the exchange, the noise, the geographical and cultural differences, the slowness, the simplicity, the banality, the trace, the moment, the text, the language, the distance, the ideas, the powerlessness." - Philippe Van Cauteren, artistic director S.M.A.K., Ghent

In recent years, Ronny Delrue (*1957) corresponded with six artists namely: Martin Assig (Germany), Salam Atta Sabri (Iraq), Roger Ballen (South Africa), Sanjeev Maharjan (Nepal), Mithu Sen (India) and Christine Remacle (Belgium). Through exchanges in the form of drawings, letter fragments and collages, among other things, this publication not only explores the encounters between artists with different geographical backgrounds and cultural attitudes; it also looks at Delrue's own oeuvre from a new angle.

Ronny Delrue is a painter, but first and foremost an artist for whom drawing is a core activity. For him, drawing is a way of thinking, a state of being. For this project a conscious decision was made to send the letters by post, as opposed to the swift exchange of digitally scanned documents. Correspondances is an ode to slowness and a tribute to human acts, in which representation becomes the language of the encounter.

Text in English, French and Dutch.