PUBLICATION
Swann Ronné, I Just Need A Sign
2024
I Just Need A Sign | 我只要一个符号
Exhibition Catalog
Published by Galaxy Museum of Contemporay Art, CH
With contributions by Huang Zhong Hua, Li Yong, Zimu Zhu, Swann Ronné
216 pages
Translated into Chinese I English I French
DERIVATIVE
Fauve Art x Swann Ronne
2023
“Swann Ronne presents four hoodies inspired from his [Dust] paintings series, and made in his trademark layered technique.
Ronne's [Dust] series of paintings explore traces, colors, and words by cleaning, erasing, redacting, and sanding, creating a critical setting for failure of the notion of series and the subject itself. The paintings manifest a conflict within themselves, with traces, signs, and letters put in crisis, leading to involuntary or unconsidered residual matter. The metaphor of dust symbolizes an inconsiderate and accidental material with which we negotiate daily. Dust represents the truth about our activities, including particles of DNA, hair, skin, canvas fiber, sawdust, and brush hairs, constantly moving, swept up, thrown away, and coming back.
Ronne's [Dust] paintings inspired him to create wearable art with a motif of the DUST stencil, playing the role of a signature and evoking a brand logo or label. As a painter, he constantly stains his clothes and tries to clean them, which embodies the ambivalence behind [Dust]. Ronne's work has been exhibited in Paris, Germany, and the south of France, and he won the Roger Bataille painting prize in 2022.”
Available on www.fauve.art
PUBLICATION
Le recouvrement en peinture
2021
Le Recouvrement en peinture
Graduation thesis
Self-edited
100 pages / FR
Available
with works of Philippe Vandenberg, Walter Swennen, Spandau Parks, Matthieu Martin, Joe Bradley, Eddie Martinez, Bernard Piffaretti, Christopher Wool, John Baldessari, Richard Prince, Robert Rauchenberg, Merlin Carpenter, Dominique Figarella, Michel Majerus, Albert Oehlen, David Ostrowski, Steinberner/Dempf & Huber, Swann Ronne