Description

"Seidenschals" of Ronan Martin is a powerful work that explores the tension between the lightness of movement and the depth of matter. Against a dense, luminous black background, the artist pays explicit homage to Pierre Soulages , working the surface with particular care given to black pigment and glazing , giving the background a vibrant, almost living texture. This black is not absence, but presence: it captures, reflects, reveals.

At the heart of this textured darkness, two swirls of color emerge, like silk scarves suspended in space—hence the title, Seidenschals . The pictorial gesture, fluid but controlled, brings out reds, yellows, blues, and greens, in a thick, almost sculpted material. These colored filaments meet at the center in a point of fragile tension, like a moment of grace frozen between two forces.

This work engages in a dialogue between light and shadow, matter and movement, abstraction and emotion. It embodies a search for contrast and balance, where black becomes a field of expression rather than a void, and where color becomes breath.