rodolphe janssen

Surprising shifts, curves, and frequent changes of direction. The road through the mountains is full of twists and turns. For his sixth solo exhibition at rodolphe janssen, Thomas Lerooy presents a new series of small and large paintings on panel and on canvas, alongside unique sculptures in bronze and stone. With Twists and Turns, Lerooy continues to build an oeuvre that recontextualizes and demystifies existing visual lexicons. His sculptures depict bronze faces crushed between massive stone blocks. They evoke the tension between movement and stillness, between freedom and constraint. These works suggest an allegory of a society that both shapes and crushes us. 

Lerooy’s oeuvre continues to balance between opposites: the sculptures and paintings oscillate between heaviness and lightness, concealment and revelation, grotesque and intimate, classical and twisted, observing and being seen. Twists and Turns is an exercise in seeing differently, in rephrasing what we think we know. An exhibition that not only reflects on Lerooy’s own work but also on broader visual structures- and the frameworks that define how and what we see.

About the artist: (BORN) 1981 IN ROESELARE, BELGIUM (BASED) BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
Thomas Lerooy has gained international recognition through several solo exhibitions in recent years, including at institutions such as TANK Shanghai (2024), the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium (2019), Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens in Deurle (2017), and the Petit Palais in Paris (2015). His work is part of major public collections, including the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Province of West Flanders, the Belfius Art Collection in Brussels, and the cities of Brussels, Puurs, and Knokke, where he has a permanent monumental installation.

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