Romuald Dumas-Jandolo
Romuald Dumas-Jandolo is an Astérides Resident in 2017.
Through various mediums, Romuald Dumas-Jandolo reenacts autobiographical scenes or revisits certain periods of art history that are dear to him, particularly the era of the Counter-Reformation and tenebrism in Byzantium, where monks and scholars debated the sex of angels. His work, tinged with a Baroque aesthetic and influenced by the performing arts, reveals a tormented, hybrid, and overflowing world where flesh and the emphasis on the body transcend and evoke the sense of the sublime.
In his gargantuan yet sensitive practice, Romuald Dumas-Jandolo addresses the question of gender and the convictions tied to our ways of life, our physical forms. The artist enjoys questioning the inner essence of his subjects, including himself, by playing with distancing any form of egocentrism or stigmatization, attempting to reveal their very essences.
After obtaining a DNSEP from the École Supérieure d’Arts et Médias in Caen in 2011, Romuald Dumas-Jandolo builds his work around travel. In 2015, he departs for the city of Winnipeg in Canada and presents an exhibition at the RAW Gallery: When the night slipped on us, not even scared. From 2015 to 2016, he settles in the Casa Velazquez in Madrid, where he embarks on a project about relics and Holy Week in Seville. Then, in 2017, he returns to Normandy where the Artothèque of Caen offers him a residency. This will be followed by a solo exhibition: La Nuit Américaine. He has just returned from Turkey, where he completed a mobile research residency at the MA Studio in Istanbul and Cappadocia.
Romuald Dumas-Jandolo’s work in on display during the exhibition ALLEZ, 2017.
