Louise series
Louise #1
Between Stripes and Skin
Oil on canvas, diptych
80 × 120 cm (80 + 40)
2025
The viewer enters a film that has already begun.
Louise series
It shifts when you look. Louise hides because she wants to be found slowly.
A second panel opens the image sideways — through a curtain, a doorway, a pattern, sometimes just a sliver of another world. I like that interruption. It gives you access, but never the whole room.
Leave too soon and Louise wins.
The Louise Series
All the works of the series side by side, each in its own proportion. Move left and right, and open any painting to see it large.
Louise #1
diptych
Between Stripes and Skin
Oil on canvas, diptych · 80 × 120 cm (80 + 40) · 2025
Louise #2
Oil on canvas · 80 × 80 cm · 2026
Louise #3
Oil on canvas · 80 × 80 cm · 2026
Louise #4
diptych
Diptych
Oil on canvas, diptych · 80 × 120 cm (40 + 80) · 2026
Louise #5
Oochie coogy
Oil on canvas · 80 × 80 cm · 2026
Louise #6
diptych
Diptych
Oil on canvas, diptych · 80 × 120 cm (80 + 40) · 2026
Louise #7
Oil on canvas · 80 × 80 cm · 2026
Louise #8
diptych, in progress
Diptych
Oil on canvas, diptych · 80 × 120 cm (80 + 40) · 2026
Eight works
Louise series
The irony is that a scene can linger. Each painting starts a film. Whether it is about you or me is another matter.
ROBERTO, artist statement
Studio, Bevel (Antwerp)
Oil paint and Damar resin, applied in thin, transparent layers. Images that hover between painting and cinema.
Chronology
Selected exhibitions
2026
Solo Exhibition
Kava Congress Centre, Antwerp
Belgium
2025
Summer Breeze
Awita New York Studio, Brooklyn
New York
2025
Artist Meeting
Grand Casino Knokke, Knokke-Heist
Belgium
2022
Private Exhibition
Buenos Aires
Argentina
2021
Nobody & Friends
Solo Exhibition, Antwerp
Belgium
2019
Tantram
Group Exhibition, Zürich
Switzerland
About
I trained as an architect and built a career as an entrepreneur before painting became central. Writing has always run alongside it.
I was formed in the 20th century and work in the 21st. That tension keeps me curious and slightly out of step. I paint in oil on canvas and keep returning to what happens between two people: attraction, conflict, distance, archetypes, and what remains unsaid. I prefer to leave a painting partly unresolved.
I am also the author of the tragicomic novel IXION (Paris Books, 2020); my poetry, like all my work, is steeped in irony and a refusal to take myself too seriously.
I paint from my studio near Antwerp (Belgium).
The studio, Bevel · a short reel