“Codex Romulensis”: Romulo Cesar at Espace Robert Poulin, Montreal

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26 September-26 October 2013

“Codex Romulensis”: Romulo Cesar

Romulo César’s work carries signs of automatic writing and obsession. Attractive and repellant, fascinating and disturbing, each of his works reveals in a brutal fashion the hidden part of the “carnal envelope”. Each work comprises an aesthetic of shock and of debilitation; they reveal an inner world that reproduces itself, built from improbable mutations and gastric enzymes. Even the colours themselves seem to violate the space: an eruption of acid paint in expressive gestures from which emerge jets, grooves and ribs that repeatedly shove up against each other, systematic and compulsive marks.

We can see how the work blurs the strict definitions of inside and outside, healthy and unhealthy, attractive and repulsive.

Romulo César was born in Rio de Janeiro. He lives and works in Vancouver, after having spent a few years in Montréal. He attended the Fine Arts Academy of Rio de Janeiro from 2003 to 2005, and went on to pursue self-expression outside the academic system. He has shown his work in underground venues and at Montreal’s Monastiraki Gallery.

(adapted from the gallery’s press materials)


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Image (top):
Mutual Predator Remains #3
by Romulo César
13″x10″
mixed media on paper
2013
Photograph: Guy L’Heureux
Image courtest of the artist and Espace Robert Poulin, Montreal