Sunday mornings are great for drinking coffee or tea in your pyjamas while listening to ICA-Belgium’s online Colour Talks!

On Sunday December 10th 2023 from 10h till 11h CEST our guest was Brussels based artist Pedro Ruxa. His research on light and color reflects a very particular fascination of his, almost obsessive, corresponding to a search for lucidity. An attempt to ‘see more clearly’ the world, his position in the world and his own emotions. He also works as an assistant-teacher of Colour Theory and Digital Colour, since 2021, at ENSAV LA Cambre.

A COLOUR IN MY MIND

Tranquility Base (Wheel of Fortune) 2023, acrylic on canvas, 40x45cm – Pedro Ruxa

Working mainly with the medium of painting, Pedro Ruxa came to develop a very personal approach, to create a poetic and metaphysical series of images. Emotions, objects and colours attempt to co-exist and to build a meaning through a cerebral, surrealist-romantic point of view of the world.

F tranquility-base #15 (color-vision) 2022 40x45cm – Pedro Ruxa

Inspired by scientific and historical references, particularly on color perception, but also by Blues music and literature, Pedro Ruxa will give us through this colour talk an insight into some of his most recent works. What thoughts, feelings, intentions, influences, are behind his artworks? How is this translated from a mental picture to a painted image? And how colour plays a structural role in his creative process?

ABOUT

Pedro Ruxa is an artist of Portuguese origin, born in 1993. After obtaining an MFA degree in Painting at La Cambre in 2016, he’s been regularly showing his work in solo and group exhibitions in Belgium, France, Mexico and USA. Currently based in Brussels, he also works as an assistant-teacher of Colour Theory and Digital Colour, since 2021, at ENSAV LA Cambre.
Pedro Ruxa’s research on light and color reflects a very particular fascination of his, almost obsessive, corresponding to a search for lucidity. An attempt to « see more clearly » the world, his position in the world and his own emotions. Following this line of thought, light and visual perception have gradually taken on a very symbolic importance in his work: As a visual artist, Pedro Ruxa perceives the world as a set of reflective surfaces that our retina receives and then projects as images into the brain, which then fills it with meaning. This light is therefore not only a physical light, but also an intellectual light.

More about his work via pedroruxa.com and Instagram.