ROBERTO

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).