Jérôme Romain

Roman Jérôme was born in 1976, he lived and works in Montpellier.

“What is left of the life?” This impression so well described by Proust; this detail irradiating that we are unable to see, to fix and that carries the very essence of things is the look that Jérôme Romain puts, with correctness, upon objects, scenes and today's people. He reveals beauty, this inherent beauty of banal thinks, and that could not differentiate tragic and happiness.

The quality of his technical researches would have been able to drive him to hyperrealism. Such is not his desire. He does not paint subject; he paints, with meticulous care and method, the aesthetic reason of subject. It’s it who dictates traces, tension… and this so unique light as treated the masters of art, Caravage, Vermeer, De La Tour ; and more recently, in the last works, Hopper, by light and framing of cinéma.

Jérôme Romain takes verbiage and pathos away from the real to reveal its poetic dimension.