Untitled, 2022
Damien Deroubaix, born in 1972, Lille, France. He lives and works in Meisenthal and Paris.
Damien Deroubaix could well be called a Dada, an iconoclast, a revolutionary. His painting makes no secret of it. Deroubaix's works, which cohabit like an assemblage of figures and unexpected objects, seek to free themselves from any framework. There's no choice of techniques or materials: they're all there; no concern for geographical, historical or cultural coherence, just dialogue.
Forms and symbols exist for them, interacting in a magnificent dance where even the apocalypse ends up becoming a fantastic spectacle. As a traveling artist, Damien Deroubaix gives each stratum of his painting a meaning of its own, countering the previous or nourishing the next. Almost like a sculptor, he works on his canvas, breaking lines or molding his subjects.
His work can be found in national institutional collections such as the Musée d'art Moderne Centre Pompidou, Mamc Strasbourg, Frac Midi-Pyrénées, Limousin and Basse Normandie, Fnac cnap, Musée du dessin et de l'estampe originale de Gravelines and international collections, including the Museum of Modern Art New York, Centre Pompidou Paris, Mudam, Luxembourg, Saarlandmuseum Saarbrücken, Museu Coleçao Berardo Lisbon, Albrecht-Dürer-Haus-Stiftung Nuremberg, Kunstmuseum St Gallen.