In Residence at URDLA - October 5-11
Announcement from the URDLA website:
From the age of twenty, captivated by the paintings of Mark Rothko, Rob Mazurek developed a passion for color field painting, and with a systematic desire to do things himself, he began painting and composing in an attempt to recapture the emotional precision that had moved him so deeply. Thus, when he paints, he brings tones and rhythms, creating what are essentially graphic scores. And when he recruits collaborators for his musical projects, it is each time a new painting, a superimposition of different colors and sensibilities. Becoming increasingly transmedia, in 2013 at URDLA in Villeurbanne, for example, he created a series of stereoscopic lithographs that are literally visual scores for improvisation.
Its main theme: the Universe, a canvas made up of billions of facets, fragments of which he seeks to reveal through visual, auditory, and spatial experiences... The web, the spider's web, Indra's Net, branching thoughts. The canvas represents a form of plural complexity and unity at the same time, a myriad of seemingly independent elements of the same nature, fragments linked by a thin, almost invisible thread. He plants seeds that take root discreetly and slowly underground and that may germinate over time, perhaps even after his death.
Rob Mazurek is on a constant journey, searching and offering new perspectives. Rather than making definitive statements, he asks questions, suggests pathways, and offers directions, all conditioned by the experiences he provides. He offers a vehicle to the spectator-traveler, challenging them while providing a framework that allows them to push the boundaries of their own understanding.
In his questioning of the universe and humanity's place and role within this vast whole, he acknowledges the idea that we are ultimately only asking questions to which there are no answers. He accepts not understanding an idea and uses it as it is.
In 2017, URDLA dedicated a monographic exhibition to him, Constellation Scores.
