Roman Rembovsky
Roman Rembovsky
Ružomberok, SLOVAKIA, Slovakia
About Roman Rembovsky
I was born in April 1977 in Rivne, Ukraine. After disintegration of USSR in 1993 my family was allowed to return to my mother's motherland, to Slovakia, smaller of successors of previous Czechoslovakia. Here I have taken a chance to study fine art at university. As an artist I mostly create paintings. Mostly I apply oil on canvas technique on my paintings. This technique offers widest range of possible qualities. I take my actual works as a dialogue between the past and the present through something that I would name honour of painting composition structures with elements of direct and indirect quotations. I try to define my own vision of painting based on classical building up of a picture. The dominant element of drapery is the thing we can call indirect quotation, something that refers, maybe only sensually, to the great heritage of the mannerism, baroque, classicism or the 20th century periods. I try to give homogenity to this movement of things, graphical elements, shaping complicacy and colour and form one painting "mass". This chaos ordering, confrontation of natural organic structure with decorativeness, bringing poetry to the dailiness, takes place on simple motives of textiles, something that is related by its character to the appearance of the country or even human body. In the composition of still life I use folk motives as well as elements connected to the post-industrial society. In the next phase of my work I enter the area of the picture with human figure. It becomes an element organically binder but also retreating in favour of dominating draperies. I take this element in composition as a quite paradox. "Carnival" of objects is transformed and organized into something related to universe. "Textile landscapes" and phantomatic figure-indoor motives, that are twisted and binded in their forms to the networks of structures. I try to go under the perceived reality, give things unitary temperature, where the reality is perceived on the limits of illusion and anaturalistic abstraction. Objecting, but also bringing poetry to the regular things can evoke irregularity of the regular, can irritate our eyes by crossing the physical effect of reality, can tend to unification, some kind of "metaphysical freezing". The pragmatism, new pragmatism, psychological and contextual themes in my work have the ambition to urgently give an account of the existential situation of humans. I try to express fascination with artistic form, triumph of phenomenon, beauty of textiles, and attraction to the boundless variability of human body shapes and psychological meaning of their gestures and body language. My recent work is characterized by the oscillation of meanings, exposure of a human being, narrating stories by painting about different situations and moments. In this mixture, there is a presence of continuous self-reflection in my selfportraits.
Education:
2010: Academy of fine arts, Banská Bystrica — Art.D.
Department of painting, Institute of free visual art, Prof. Ľudovít Hološka
2005: Academy of fine arts and design, Bratislava — Mgr.art.
Department of painting, Prof. Ján Berger
2003: Academy of fine arts, Banská Bystrica — Bc. Department of painting, Prof. Ľudovít Hološka
Events:
Awards
2013: Ľviv, Ukrajina (Palace of Art, Retro of Ľviv)
Exhibitions:
Individual Exhibitions
1999 - Nová Baňa (Museum)
2004 - Bratislava (Gallery Villa Rustica)
2005 - Nova Baňa (Museum)
2007 - Poprad (Tatry Gallery: Elektráreň)
2007 - Prešov (Šarišská Gallery)
2007 - Ružomberok (Liptauer Museum)
2008 - Bratislava (Pálffy’s Palace)
2008 - Dolný Kubín (Orava Gallery)
2009 - Banská Bystrica (Gallery of Central Slovakia, Room 19_21, Mansion of Dominik Skutecký)
2010 - Banská Bystrica (Gallery of Central Slovakia, House of Bethlen)
2012 - Dolný Kubín (Orava Gallery)
Exhibitions with other artists
2000 - Rimavská Sobota (House of culture)
2003 - Banská Bystrica (Nomination on Tatrabanka Prize)
2003 - Tazones, Spain (international exhibition, international competition)
2005 - Bratislava (Miro Gallery)
2005 - Bratislava (Gallery Villa Rustica)
2005 - Pezinok (Gallery S. Prokopa)
2005 - Bratislava (Miro Gallery)
2006 - Dolný Kubín (House of Florin)
2006 - Ružomberok (Liptauer Museum)
2007 - Myslenice (Poland), AMV Gallery
2007 - Bratislava (House of Art)
2008 - Bratislava (Gallery PF)
2009 - Bratislava (Gallery PF)
2009 - Banská Bystrica (Gallery of Central Slovakia Pretorium)
2009 - Rimavská Sobota (Town Gallery)
2009 - Uherské Hradiště, Czech Republic (Gallery of Vladimír Hroch)
2009 - Olsztyn, Poland (Marszalkowska Gallery)
2009 - Lučenec (Museum of Novohrad)
2010 - Ružomberok (Slovak National Gallery, Gallery of Ľudovít Fulla)
2010 - Bratislava (House of Art)
2010 - Nitra (Nitra Gallery)
2010 - Bratislava (White &Weiss Contemporary Art Auction, Exhibition at Hotel Kempinski)
2010 - Banská Bystrica (Gallery of Central Slovakia) 2010 - Plzeň, Czech Republic (Avalon Business Centre)
2010 - Plzeň, Czech Republic (International Biennial of Drawing, Pilsen
2010 - Museum of Western Bohemia)
2010 - Znojmo, Czech Republic (Louka Riding School, Guest - Facultad de Bellas Artes Valencia (Spain))
2011 - Praha, Czech Republic (National technical library Praha)
2011 - Bratislava (White & Weiss Contemporary Art Auction, Exhibition at Erdody palace)
2011 Trnava (Scooter 3 Biennial of the Young Art, Gallery of Ján Koniarik)
2011 - Košice (Po Sku 3, Biennial of the Young Art, Gallery of Eastern Slovakia)
2012 - Bratislava (White & Weiss Contemporary Art Auction, Exhibition at Erdody Palace)
2013 - Bratislava (White & Weiss Contemporary Art Auction, Exhibition at Erdody Palace)
2013 - Marseille, France (Maison de l‘Artisanat et des Métiers d‘Art)
2013 - Ľviv, Ukraine (Palace of Art), Ľvivske retro
2014 - Bratislava (White & Weiss Contemporary Art Auction, Exhibition at Erdody Palace)
2014 - Bratislava (White & Weiss Contemporary Art Auction, Exhibition at Erdody Palace)
2014 - MY SPACE / MY PLACE, Center of Art Zberňa, Ružomberok, Slovakia
2015 - Ľviv, Ukrajina (Palace of Art, Days of Slovak Art in Ľviv)
2015 - Ružomberok (Liptauer Museum)
2015 - Ružomberok, (Gallery of Ľudovít Fulla) 2015 Bratislava (White & Weiss Contemporary Art Auction, Exhibition at Erdody Palace)
2015 - Bratislava (White & Weiss Contemporary Art Auction, Exhibition at Erdody Palace)
2016 - Bratislava (White & Weiss Contemporary Art Auction, Exhibition at Erdody palace)
2016 - Bratislava (White & Weiss Contemporary Art Auction, Exhibition at Erdody palace)
2017 - Ľviv,Ukrajina (Palace of Art, Days of Slovak Art in Ľviv)