Jacques Roch "Escalades"

Kim Foster Gallery

poster for Jacques Roch "Escalades"

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This new series of work titled 'Escalades' by Jacques Roch uses cartoon screenprints rendered every which way to depict the challenges and absurdity of life. Stairways reference Jacob's ladder and its access to heaven or some mystical dimension, while skateboarding trees reference youth that naively glides throughout each canvas.

The seemingly endless stairways are a metaphor for our efforts to attain sheer bliss. You can keep climbing up the narrow steps, but can never quite reach the top. As in Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus, the absurdity of a man's life is compared with the situation of Sisyphus from Greek mythology that is condemned to repeat forever the same meaningless task of pushing a boulder up a mountain, only to see it roll down again.

Against a background of random brushy patches of acid-hued acrylic paint meant for our ocular pleasure, Jacques is commenting on the absurd and our attempt to access anything transcendental.

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Schedule

from February 10, 2011 to March 12, 2011

Opening Reception on 2011-02-10 from 18:00 to 20:00

Artist(s)

Jacques Roch

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