Exhibition - Nicolas Roggy: How To Repair

Martos Gallery is pleased to present How To Repair, an exhibition featuring new works by the Paris-based artist Nicolas Roggy. These paintings exemplify a lively interplay of pictorial, architectural, and sculptural forms, rooted in a foundational exploration of color, composition, and material.

Roggy’s practice involves a meticulous approach to drawing, collage, and construction, to build and deconstruct the various physical elements of each painting. He employs techniques of addition and subtraction systematically to achieve chromatic, surface contrast and flow, often enhanced through cutting and sanding.

Roggy’s deliberate repetition of formats and motifs engages circularity and anthropomorphism, as well as the perception of depth and space, moving beyond mere representation to explore hybrid picture-making. His works are equally paintings and objects, built as images and structure. As Roggy has observed, these works amplify the potential of object-type painting to the wall, to the architecture and the volume of the room, both inviting and implicating the viewer’s own projection: bodies at rest and in motion.

Accompanying the exhibition is Painting-As-Puzzle, an in-depth conversation between Nicolas Roggy and writer and curator Bob Nickas, offering myriad insights into the conceptive and intuitive nature of Roggy's vision.