Agnes Ballandras

Romain GANER was born in 1953 in Guadeloupe and spent his childhood in Marie-Galante. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Toulouse. He has been painting since the end of the 1970s. He lives in Venice and Paris. He has exhibited since 1981 in Paris, Bilbao, New York, San Francisco, Toronto, Helsinki, Cuba, Kobe (Japan), Catania (Italy), Stuttgart and in the provinces. He is represented by the SKOTO gallery in New York. Espace Canopy exhibited it in February 2007 for the first edition of the Fulgurance Meeting of Black Cultures festival. In September 2008, Espace Canopy offered the public and the artist its first retrospective. He exhibited in Köln-germany in 2014 with Denis Hérelle and Yao Metsoko, under the curation of Tassius Marie-line. In 2015 he exhibited: at Unesco "Art and Peace", at the Festival of Abolitions, at the collective exhibition ZAZA.


FREEDOM
To say, or not to
To go up or down
To spit against the wind
To love, for example painting,
One or more people
Eat with eyes, fingers
With a silver spoon, or with your feet
To have empty or full pockets and heads
Love the plain instead of the mountain
FREEDOM in a public place
The freedom that bares the gates
Playing leap-masons ...
The freedom to say no, if, yes, no maybe, 'cellars not We'll see, we never know,
finally, pfuiii (R. Ganer)