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aboutartist statement
In my work I am free to shed light and shadow as I see fit. I seek absence, balance and discrepancy. And I contemplate. I thrive on disobedience, do not take things for granted, do not listen to many. But there is no purpose in art, and that is its strength. In contrast to everything that "needs to be", art does not need to be anything. In there, I have found a vast freedom to create whatever I want. biography
Marianne De Roo is a Belgian artist. She has always been drawing and while doing this, she has created her own version of the real world. In her adulthood she decides to go to the Art Academy in order to learn the techniques behind drawing and painting. She obtains her degree in drawing and subsequently her degree in painting. Since then, she has established herself as a full-time artist. She is drawn to the intricate and subtle art of portraiture. At the same time, her interest in botanical elements and vegetation grows. She has an innate attraction to settings and how a certain emptiness can be brought into an image. This contrasts with the art of portraiture. Those two main arteries feed her work. exhibitions
solo “Seventy-three, portraits of women’’ - OPEK, Leuven, May - June 2023 “A perhaps hand” - Galerij Au Fond du Bois, Tervuren March 2019 “Portraits of a team” - Permanent exhibition, Il Carrettino, Tervuren group "Driekoningen" - Karmelietenklooster, Gent, Nov 2024 – Jan 2025 "Ongegrond" - Expo Leuven, Sept - Oct 2024 “Works on paper 2024” - The Gallery at Green & Stone, London, Jan - Feb 2024 “Home” - Green Door Gallery, Brussels, Dec 2023 - Jan 2024 "2 Beaufort" - Tervuren, Sept.2022 "Warandepoort" - Art Tervuren, Tervuren, Dec.2021 - Jan 2022 “Oogst” - Art Tervuren, Overijse, 2018 “Een hedendaagse invulling van de School van Tervuren” - Galerij Au fond du Bois, Tervuren, 2017 ArTiestenToer - Tervuren, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2022 press
Interview with Contemporary Art Curator, March 2024. “The Purposeful Mayonnaise”, Literary & Art Journal, volume 3, issue 2 “Art for peace" book - ISBN 978-84-19526-72-4 Profile and interview at Contemporary Art Collectors View legal and copyright notices here.
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