Ronny Delrue: Correspondances #2
Texts by Ory Dessau, Carine Fol and Philippe Van Cauteren
S.M.A.K. & Hannibal, 2020
€39,95
In recent years, Ronny Delrue (b. 1957) corresponded with the following five artists: 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 #2 is an ode to slowness and a tribute to human acts, in which representation becomes the language of the encounter.
ISBN: 9789463887328
