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Artist: Runhild Roeder ( Canada ) -
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Main Category: Painting
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Biography: Roder's works expresses the exploration of her philosophical ideas and concerns. Her main intention is to broaden and humanize the concept of rationality. She finds that the present understanding of rationality is problematic. It fails to address the 'the whole being'. Her main interests are revising and reconstructing the historical approaches to perception; both in life, academic philosophy and in art. She believes that it is possible to create a more just society through working out of just perceptions. This she believes, can only be obtained by a profound knowledge of philosophical and aesthetic precepts. This is a struggle, and art is apolitical instrument to achieve the precise knowledge required in order that we act as free moral agents. For her, moral freedom is most essential good as it points to the higher nature in human existence.
Roder's latest painting shares with these artists a particular mix of rawness and refinement. Often favouring just black and white acrylic, Roder constructs her compositions from lines, sometimes constituting just a few sharp pokes across the canvas as in Bredabaan - a street name in Antwerp - or at other times, as in the beautiful work titled, Jesus Just Left, lines accrue to form dense scaffolding possessed of almost physical weight.
These are not paintings that try to please in an instant; rather, Roder's visual poetry has a life of its own, allowing the viewer to ignore its virtues or come to the works on their own terms.
http://philartrunhild.org
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Exhibition History: Roder has had numerous shows in Europe, including one in which she shared the space at Verve Art Gallery in Louvain, Belgium, with the likes of Karel Appel and Pierre Alechinsky.
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Collections: Runhild Roder's paintings sit in numerous private collections and museums including in the Canadian collection at the National Gallery in New Delhi, Echinger Collection in Vienna and Macken Collection Leuven, Belgium.
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