Ritstart Gobyn
°1985, Ghent, Belgium.
Lives and works in Ghent, Belgium.
At first glance, Ritsart Gobyn's paintings appear to be a random collection of traces of a creative process. Paint splatters, spray paint and smears cover unprimed pieces of linen, on which all kinds of collage-elements such as pieces of tape, colorful snippets, or post-its are attached. Sometimes the raw linen itself is attached to a white background, which in turn becomes a collage element. The temporary nature of the tape and the carelessly composition of loosely attached scraps and image fragments seem to suggest an unfinishedness. An unfinishedness that confronts the viewer with the creative process a painting goes through before it reveals itself to the viewer.
Perception changes however when it turns out that the tape, the snippets and even the folds in the canvas are painted trompe l'oeils. Ritsart Gobyn uses the trompe l'oeil as a painterly strategy to make the viewer aware of the creationprocess through the illusion of a result. In this way, instead of being a matter of optical illusion and painterly virtuosity, trompe l'oeil becomes a searchlight in the artistic process itself, and it questions the 'status' of the painting as an image and as an object.
Selected exhibitions:
Solo Exhibitions
2023, Prologue, PLUS-ONE Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
2022, The Endless Rehearsal, PLUS-ONE Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
2020, Memories of Things to Be Done, Kunsthal Gent, Ghent (BE)
2018, Parergon, Rossicontemporary, Brussels (BE)
2016, Interlude, Rossicontemporary, Brussels (BE)
2015, In The Making, Cc Gildhof, Tielt (BE)
2015, Het Kabinet: Ritsart Gobyn, CIAP, Hasselt (BE)
Group Exhibitions
2024, In other Worlds, Verduyn Gallery, Moregem (BE)
2023, Face Time, PLUS-ONE Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
2023, Zandgrond, De Warande, Turnhout (BE)
2023, Head Games, Piermarq*, Sydney (AU)
2023, Stille Levens, Venetiaanse Gaanderijen, Ostend (BE)
2022, Altered States, PLUS-ONE Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
2022, A Moment, Tesoro Collection, Amsterdam (NL)
2021, 1.1 Million Pounds, Barbé Gallery, Ghent (BE)
2021, One Way or Another, SMAK, Ghent (BE)
2021, Nuages, La Maison des Arts, Brussels (BE)
2021, Door het doek het schilderij, Roger Raveel Museum, Machelen (BE)
2021, Lost in Translation, PLUS-ONE Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
2020, Salon des Artistes, Oud Zwembad, Ronse (BE)
2020, Stimulans, Paardenstallen, Kortrijk (BE)
2020, Gaverprijs, Cc De Schakel, Waregem (BE)
2020, No Pain No Gain, Dauwens & Beernaert Gallery, Brussels (BE)
2018, Gallery d’Apostrof, Deinze (BE)
2017, Input/Output, De Bond, Brugge (BE)