b o b r o e s
the forgotten dream
2022
160x200
oil on canvas
the pursuit of happiness, interrupted
OIL ON CANVAS
2023
100x80
not a nude descending the stair
OIL ON CANVAS
2023
120X100
the attempt 7
OIL ON CANVAS
2022
100X120
le visionnaire
2023
30x40
oil on canvas
le geste inutile
2022
160x120
oil on canvas
La rencontre
OIL ON CANVAS
40x50
2023
le fumeur
OIL ON CANVAS
2023
80X70
the vision
OIL ON CANVAS
2023
120X110
the achievement
OIL ON CANVAS
2023
100X120
Sassey sur Meuse
OIL ON CANVAS
100X80
2023
Did I close the door?
Oil on canvas
40x40
2023
the safe place
2022
oil on canvas
50x40
the excursion
OIL ON CANVAS
2023
100X80
the black dahlia
OIL ON CANVAS
50X50
2022
folding men
OIL ON CANVAS
70X90
2022
FRAYED FLAGS
the attempt
OIL ON CANVAS
120X100
2022
the attempt 22
OIL ON CANVAS
100X80
2023
Nowadays a lot of people are waving with flags, a sign of searching for identity and confirming differences between groups of people. The flags of Roes are not recognizable. They are crumpled, damaged, stored away or cut up. Their current function is unclear. Do they still have a purpose? Their representation seems absurd, like props in the wrong place. Unrecognizable symbols with different colors adorn the flags. It could be about past glory and power ... and the influence of time.
the safe place ( atomic party people) Pasadena
50x70
OIL ON CANVAS
2022
the Comeback Kid ( serie )
70x90
OIL ON CANVAS
2022
the mushroomexperts
70x50
OIL ON CANVAS
2022
portrait
70x80
OIL ON CANVAS
2016
the illusionist
OIL ON CANVAS
70X50
2022
it just didn't happen
diptych
oil on canvas
2x50x50
2022
the attempt 6
OIL ON CANVAS
50X40
2022
THE MOMENT IS YOURS
Images from a bygone era. Family pictures from the old box, found in the attic and stripped of their personal information by the painter by blurring the faces and place of appearance. It is indefinable. The men and women stand still, isolated or in small groups. The moment is there for them. Which moment is of no importance. It is one recording of meaning in their own existence, to look back on, but another spectator finds no meaning or importance in the image processed by the painter. This history has long since passed, all that remains is the small photo, and it will disappear with time. One could experience the emptiness and absence as negative, but that is not the message of the painter. It's just like that. The omission, the void or the lack, can always be found in Roes' work. Blank signposts, frames, placards, books, sheets, hands and glasses ... Empty until you become uncomfortable with it, and begin to desire and search for content or story to be able to orient yourself in this chaos of indefinability. A reference point could provide you with guidance, but the painter ignores that. It is a game. Like chess. You can follow rehearsed centuries-old traditional chess movements, or you can also move more intuitively with the wooden blocks, until an unexpected pattern pops up in your mind, and you suddenly experience beauty, even though there is (at first sight) nothing to see. That is the only form of meaning that Roes seeks while playing in his own work.
cul de sac
100x120
OIL ON CANVAS
2022
Le jugement
100x80
OIL ON CANVAS
2019
the denial
100x100
OIL ON CANVAS
2020
Matisse's misery
360x160
OIL ON CANVAS
2019
the attempt
140x120
OIL ON CANVAS
2019
room at Mont devant Sassey
120x100
OIL ON CANVAS
2021
isolation
120x100
OIL ON CANVAS
2020
the hiding
80x50
OIL ON CANVAS
2022
CLOSE AND HOSTILE EXAMINATION
120x140
OIL ON CANVAS
2019
the attempt
50x60
OIL ON CANVAS
2022
the attempt 3
60x80 / 120x160
OIL ON CANVAS
2020
the moment is yours
50x60
OIL ON CANVAS
2020
the achievement serie
120x140
OIL ON CANVAS
2010
the gathering SERIE
OIL ON CANVAS
2021
we will follow
100x80
OIL ON CANVAS
2021
the messenger 9
70x50
OIL ON CANVAS
2021
angeldust
120x140
oil on canvas
2021
the messenger 7
70x80
OIL ON CANVAS
2012
the attempt (the erotic versions) 2021
KANAAL DESSEL-SCHOTEN
a year of isolation resulted in a series of paintings in various sizes in the cocoon of the studio. The daily bike rides were partly along the canal. The infinity of variations in the perception of the compositions formed by the light with reflections of mainly spheres in the water provided inspiration. It became a collection of painted images on canvas in different sizes. These continued to form new images by hanging next to, below and above each other in the studio. Images from memory and sometimes from photo.
The image of the mirroring produces a different image, of color vibration and deviation, although a remnant of the original image remains tangible. Balance through the verticalism of the trees, but also through a division and demarcation in the canvas by color. Color that changes when crossing a barrier. The assumption of water is evoked by the swirling lines of the brush wet on wet, whereby the oil paint mixes a second time, on the canvas.
the moment is yours
OIL ON CANVAS
100x120
2023
the booksniffer
OIL ON CANVAS
50X30
2022