RÉGIS GONZALEZ

Then Régis Gonzalez was invited to Hong Kong in April for an artist-in-residence programme, supported by Osage Art Foundation. During his residency, he collaborated with local artist Tsang Chui Mei on the creation of an ephemeral mural painting covering the walls and the ceiling of an entire room.

In May, his work was included in Things Happen for a Reason, a group show co-presented by Mur Nomade and Koru Contemporary Art in Hong Kong. Besides, his work was presented in several art fairs this year. His agenda for the rest of the year includes a 3,000-square-feet solo exhibition featuring his latest series of paintings, opening in September during Lyon Contemporary Art Biennale, in France.

Moreover Régis Gonzalez is involved in a correspondence project with Hong Kong artist and poet Claire Lee. They communicate by post exclusively but there is no restriction of media as long as they are tangible. Therefore their dialogue is conducted through letters, texts, drawings, photographs, paintings or any physical means of expression.

Régis Gonzalez works in various media, including murals, large-format portrait paintings, ink-on-paper works and scratchboards. In his art practice, Régis Gonzalez draws on his fervent study of art history combined with his caustic observation of our modern society. His interest in music also led him to create illustrations of CD albums.

Régis Gonzalez’s work touches on profound and universal themes such as death and anxiety. They are unsettling, ambiguous and, at times, can even provoke unease. Moreover the formal construction of his drawings and paintings contributes to taking viewers out of their comfort zones for he uses unexpected viewpoints or subtle manipulations of the classical rules of perspective and representation.

Régis Gonzalez’s work is in private collections in Europe and Asia.