Description
Material box, recovery – Her house, which she invests in the same way as a museum, resembles a sort of cabinet of curiosities. “Renata makes art with everything. As soon as freedom arises and we start to believe in it, she picks up everything she finds on her path: cardboard, old papers, plastic, metals, pieces of wood, tree bark, leaves… Then, Renata arranges and places all her collected objects according to her sensitivity. […] Renata offers us boxes full of art! The idea of the box is amusing… it’s like a surprise box: you open it, you see what’s inside. Here, the boxes have a humanist, ecological, mortuary, and tomb-like tendency, hieroglyphic, with lots of signs and traces from some buried civilization… There’s mystery […].”
— SKENDER Sherifi, September 15, 2005
Biography
“Renata Brantz has been painting since 1986 after a brief stint at the Ixelles Academy and the Beaux-Arts of Brussels. At first, she was interested in figuration, but very quickly, it became entanglements of characters and improbable writings that appeared. It’s by observing, as a little girl, the natural figures she discovered in the foliage of trees or, more simply, on the wallpaper of her room that Renata Brantz feeds her imagination. Nature is very present in her work, but a nature that manifests itself more through the support of the work and the material than through the subject. She roams the fields, forests, but mostly the city, searching for debris, fragments of objects, material. […] She smiles as she talks about her treasures that she accumulates in her kitchen-studio. Boxes are full of them… White paper holds a status that worries her.”
— Daniel Simon, August 1993
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