MARCIA ROMMES
Visual Artist
Texts
Vestiges Exhibition
Marcia Rommes analyzes the issues of the human being right into the stuff that moves him or her within their psyche and is sedimented by their lifetime. She masters the material of choice and, as the construction process takes place, she grants the polymeric mass a new meaning. Once set between the states of ordinary matter and installed work, the art itself emerges from the object.
These works, previously presented in black only, now acquire golden, coppery and tin shades, giving way to an architectural writing that changes their reading. The active elements are astonishing as they are sometimes memory encodings, sometimes residues caught in knowledge.
The activity of the individual visual modules, which are mutually related, leads us to deeply ponder. When multiplied, they reinforce the sensation of movement and find ways to take up the space; they invade the everyday life in multiple rhythms, cover the walls, lift stelae, transcend themselves into books. Art and letters joined in this trajectory to articulate possible realities. In each sentence, on each page, an experience leaving us a vague impression of reminiscence at the end.
We've entered, now, in the space-time of our mind.
Lia do Rio - 2019
The Color Clipping
The synthesis of the Prussian blue pigment obtained by the cyanotype process takes place and becomes incorporated by the polymeric mass developed by the artist. Abstract arrangements - results from a cultural imaginary printed in the Art History - find in small-sized white square symmetry, its correspondence with the typical iconography of the Portuguese tiling. Vocables that lift off from the paper and gain volumetric autonomy on the construction of a language that articulates between the plane and the space.
Lab Club - 2018
Hybrid Matter Exhibition
"In Marcia Rommes' works, unpredictable forms emerge from the materials sedimented by previous artistic research, providing a path for a personal method of structuring. Seemly pasty, this enigmatic mass of a silky black expresses itself in an abstract language of an almost geometric result, in which wander profound meanings sprang from sources of the subjective experience. United by lines of reading, units invite us to read different texts, or to reckon them up. Another work, additionally, alludes to the art history and transforms the original matter into recognizable image. All them optical constructions of silence. "
Lia do Rio - 2017 (Curator)
"Marcia Rommes is an artist who uses the most diverse techniques to express her ideas. On the series objectively named as 'Books', she presents the book universe from the perspective of the closed book, which does not reveal itself, retains the knowledge inaccessibly and generates the incompleteness. Light inclosed in the silence of the locked pages and in the darkness imposed to the soul which is thirsting for new perceptions. They are Books of a dense memory, from a different time, that are revived by the viewer who is led to complete the work while attempting to decipher in his imaginary possibilities of stories to be told.
In 'Stacked' we find a memory place built from texture-rich plates and from several forms. Pages from any book, an unknown story, a memory consumed by time. Overlapping sheets create a new context by hiding and revealing details of something that instigates us to look for residues of recorded stories on the pages that make up the three-dimensional pieces. Constructions that seem random, as if to provoke the desire for discovery. Spaces carefully designed to incite the perception intensified by the strange impenetrability of the work's logic.
In 'Geometrics', the artist presents us with a communion between the matter and the rationality inherent to the geometrics. Figures enriched by textures and shapes that belong to another rational, since they do not prioritize angles, rays, diagonals, in other words, they do not follow any pattern, spontaneously invading the space and hijacking it as the mosses that wrap rocks and become one with them. They are forms that allow the imagination to stride through places of such subjectivity which often seem to convey a human warmth of a recent absence from a non-existent manifestation inside an abstraction. These are works as rich in details as in subjectivity, like most works of contemporary art".
Joanice de Souza Vigorito
(PhD in History from UFRJ)
"Printmaking, collage, photo, the highlighted images of Marcia Rommes become three-dimensional, smooth, have movement, are not satisfied, become a wall, become a world. They move through an extensive transition zone. They seem to come from afar, approaching, reaching or departing, gathering, being equal but not the same. They seize deeply the being's nature. An accurate point of view of the sense of presence in the time and the space."
Lia do Rio
(Plastic artist and curator)