Rodolphe janssen is pleased to announce PLUVIAL PROTOCOL, the third solo show at the gallery of Brussels-based artist Marcel Berlanger. The exhibition, which is set to take place from May 25 to July 8, 2023, presents a new series of paintings from 2023 centering around the notion of rain.

Marcel Berlanger’s “Rain” series emerged from his technique of dividing the canvas into squares. As the artist was developing this technique, he started to slightly incline these fine tiles, which resulted in an effect that simulated rain falling, thus initiating the PLUVIAL PROTOCOL process.

The work of Marcel Berlanger, expressing an act that is at once painterly, figurative and installation and stage-oriented, unfolds in multiple dimensions, tirelessly exploring the inclusion of the figure – both its construction and deconstruction – in the space of the image. In continuance of the resonances sought between documents, boards and canvasses in earlier works, more recent paintings focus on how the light lies at the heart of all perception. Indeed, it is through the very vibrations and pulsations of the light that the image/document here appears in the pictorial space.

Recent solo exhibitions include Les Paroles Gelées, galerie nicolas silin, Paris, France; Iconen en clichés, galerie EL, Welle, Belgium; Fig., BPS22, Charleroi, Belgium; raster master, rodolphe janssen, Brussels, Belgium; Catalyst at IKOB, Eupen, Belgium; ZWMN at EMERGENTgalerie, Veurne, Belgium; and Enjoy division at Galerie Nicolas Silin, Paris, France.