rodolphe janssen presents works by Thomas Lerooy and Alice Tippit
27/03/2025
Brussels Rue de Livourne 35, Twists and Turns by Thomas Lerooy, 27 March - 10 May 2025
Surprising shifts, curves, and frequent changes of direction. The road through the mountains is full of twists and turns. For his sixth solo exhibition at rodolphe janssen, Thomas Lerooy presents a new series of small and large paintings on panel and on canvas, alongside unique sculptures in bronze and stone. With Twists and Turns, Lerooy continues to build an oeuvre that recontextualizes and demystifies existing visual lexicons. His sculptures depict bronze faces crushed between massive stone blocks. They evoke the tension between movement and stillness, between freedom and constraint. These works suggest an allegory of a society that both shapes and crushes us.
Lerooy’s oeuvre continues to balance between opposites: the sculptures and paintings oscillate between heaviness and lightness, concealment and revelation, grotesque and intimate, classical and twisted, observing and being seen. Twists and Turns is an exercise in seeing differently, in rephrasing what we think we know.
About the artist: (BORN) 1981 IN ROESELARE, BELGIUM (BASED) BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
Thomas Lerooy has gained international recognition through several solo exhibitions in recent years, including at institutions such as TANK Shanghai (2024), the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium (2019), Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens in Deurle (2017), and the Petit Palais in Paris (2015). His work is part of major public collections, including the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Province of West Flanders, the Belfius Art Collection in Brussels, and the cities of Brussels, Puurs, and Knokke, where he has a permanent monumental installation.
Caption: Thomas Lerooy. Flying high, 2025. Oil on canvas, 150 x 130 cm / 59 x 51 1/8 in
Brussels, Rue de Livourne 32, Figs by Alice Tippit, 27 March - 10 May 2025
Alice Tippit (USA, 1975) is a Chicago-based artist whose work fluctuates between the figurative and abstract realms. As she combines hard-edged style with a restrained color palette, the artist calls for a visual language based on bold graphic depictions to propose a subtle inquiry on everyday objects and their relation to humans, and bodies. Through multiple associations, Alice Tipitt compounds potential readings, that unfold in a myriad of interpretations, resulting in a hovering ambiguity that encourages the viewer to question forms and symbolics. Alice Tippit (b. 1975, lives and works in Chicago, IL USA) has had solo exhibitions at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York, NY USA; PATRON Gallery, Chicago, IL USA; KRETS, Malmö, Sweden; Kimmerich, Berlin, Germany; and many more. Group exhibitions were held at Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA; Kemper Museum of Contemporary ArtKansas City, MO, USA; Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL, USA; Linn Luhn gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany; and many more.
www.rodolphejanssen.com
rodolphe janssen - Thomas Lerooy Surprising shifts, curves, and frequent changes of direction. The road through the mountains is full of twists and turns. For his sixth solo exhibition at rodolphe janssen, Thomas Lerooy presents a new series of small and large paintings on panel and on canvas, alongside unique sculptures in bronze and stone. With Twists and Turns, Lerooy continues to build an oeuvre that recontextualizes and demystifies existing visual lexicons. His sculptures depict bronze faces crushed between massive stone blocks. They evoke the tension between movement and stillness, between freedom and constraint. These works suggest an allegory of a society that both shapes and crushes us.
Lerooy’s oeuvre continues to balance between opposites: the sculptures and paintings oscillate between heaviness and lightness, concealment and revelation, grotesque and intimate, classical and twisted, observing and being seen. Twists and Turns is an exercise in seeing differently, in rephrasing what we think we know.
About the artist: (BORN) 1981 IN ROESELARE, BELGIUM (BASED) BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
Thomas Lerooy has gained international recognition through several solo exhibitions in recent years, including at institutions such as TANK Shanghai (2024), the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium (2019), Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens in Deurle (2017), and the Petit Palais in Paris (2015). His work is part of major public collections, including the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Province of West Flanders, the Belfius Art Collection in Brussels, and the cities of Brussels, Puurs, and Knokke, where he has a permanent monumental installation.
Caption: Thomas Lerooy. Flying high, 2025. Oil on canvas, 150 x 130 cm / 59 x 51 1/8 in
Brussels, Rue de Livourne 32, Figs by Alice Tippit, 27 March - 10 May 2025
Alice Tippit. Flights, 2024. Oil on canvas, 45.7 x 38.1 cm / 18 x 15 in
Alice Tippit (USA, 1975) is a Chicago-based artist whose work fluctuates between the figurative and abstract realms. As she combines hard-edged style with a restrained color palette, the artist calls for a visual language based on bold graphic depictions to propose a subtle inquiry on everyday objects and their relation to humans, and bodies. Through multiple associations, Alice Tipitt compounds potential readings, that unfold in a myriad of interpretations, resulting in a hovering ambiguity that encourages the viewer to question forms and symbolics. Alice Tippit (b. 1975, lives and works in Chicago, IL USA) has had solo exhibitions at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York, NY USA; PATRON Gallery, Chicago, IL USA; KRETS, Malmö, Sweden; Kimmerich, Berlin, Germany; and many more. Group exhibitions were held at Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA; Kemper Museum of Contemporary ArtKansas City, MO, USA; Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL, USA; Linn Luhn gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany; and many more.
www.rodolphejanssen.com
