MATTHEW RONAY – RAMUS
2018-04-02Ronay’s drawings are automatic and intuitive—they flow naturally from his own body, from internalized habits of composition and muscle memory. His sculptures, in contrast, are meticulous, executed with exacting precision and
exquisite technique. His impossibly kerf-less tongues and grooves bewilder anyone who has ever worked with wood. Still, despite their extravagances, each sculpture is inevitably faithful to the simple drawing that preceded it.
For his upcoming show at Perrotin, Matthew is drawing at a different scale, working on larger paper that allows for a different kind of physical interaction with the drawing. Freed from the confines of the spiral notebook, new
gestures come from the shoulder or the arm rather than the hand. There is more of his body in each drawing and new variations in line weight, texture and detail emerge. Ronay moves back and forth from drawing to object, from clean
room to dirty, from shoe to identical shoe.
Opposite – Installation view
Exhibition runs through to May 26th, 2018
Perrotin
76 rue de Turenne
75003 Paris
France
