Denis Roueche works through reverie and fantasy. He looks at things for what they are not and what they could be… and puts his inventiveness to work. He quickly understands how to take advantage of the smallest object and its form, while subverting its function or abandoning it entirely. There is a genuine adult pleasure in this, seeking to maintain a playful and stimulating relationship with the world around him. The artist does not operate with naive spontaneity, but with full awareness. The imagination he deploys in his artistic work stems from « memories and visions of adventures that nourished his childhood and are consciously used. » While he plays with the public’s perception, prompting them to identify familiar motifs in objects that imitate them by lending them their characteristics, these are indeed intentional images and not visual pareidolia. These shifts, reuses, and plays on scale never fail to spark a twinkle of amusement in the eye of the observer.
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Denis ROUECHE
Denis ROUECHE
Laurence Schmidlin, Director of the Valais Art Museum