Pjeroo Roobjee (1945) - Derderangsartiest

Original color lithograph from 1999 by Belgian visual artist/painter and graphic artist Pjeroo Roobjee on beautifully preserved handmade paper. Good condition of the paper and the artwork (the work may contain small spots on the passe-partout, see the last photos)! Very colorful and bright.

The lithograph was issued in 2009 by the organization 'Flemish Art'.

Signed and numbered out of 500 copies. This lithograph also contains the artist's CV (see photo).

The work is signed and also pencil-numbered by the artist.

Dimensions of the lithograph:
- Paper size: 63 x 52 cm
- Paper: handmade paper
- Condition of the color print: Good condition (may contain small age spots around the print, namely in the passe-partout – see photo)

EXTRA ARTIST INFO:
Pjeroo Roobjee (born 1945, Ghent) is a Belgian artist, writer, and performer known for his quirky, often absurdist visual language and literary universe. He rose to cult status within the Flemish art world, where he stands out with a combination of painting, drawing, theater, poetry, and prose.

Roobjee studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent and developed a completely unique style early on. His paintings often feature enigmatic figures, hybrid creatures, and theatrical scenes that balance humor and menace. The world he evokes is grotesque, baroque, and lightly surreal, with influences from both the Flemish primitives and modern expressionist and dadaist tendencies. His work is figurative, but distorted and laden with symbolism.

In addition to his visual work, Roobjee is also a prolific author. He wrote novels, essays, and plays in which the same absurdist logic and linguistic playfulness recur as in his paintings. His language is rich, archaic, and ironic, often interwoven with wordplay and social critique.

Roobjee gave many lectures and performances for years, delivering his texts with a characteristic theatrical presence. He became not only a visual artist and writer but also a distinctive performer who cultivated his own mythical alter ego.

His oeuvre has been awarded various prizes and is included in both private and public collections in Belgium and beyond. Pjeroo Roobjee is regarded as one of the most idiosyncratic and unclassifiable voices in contemporary Flemish art.

He was artistically related to: James Ensor, Léon Spilliaert, Constant Permeke, Frits Van den Berghe, Gustave De Smet, Rik Wouters, Paul Delvaux, René Magritte, Jean Brusselmans, Pierre Alechinsky, Karel Appel, Asger Jorn, Corneille, Christian Dotremont, Panamarenko, Fred Bervoets, Jan Fabre, Marcel Broodthaers, Luc Tuymans, Michaël Borremans, Francis Bacon, Oskar Kokoschka, Egon Schiele, James Ensor, Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Félicien Rops, Alfred Kubin, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Max Beckmann, Marc Chagall, Leonora Carrington, Roland Topor, Jean Dubuffet, Anselm Kiefer, Georg Baselitz, Kiki Smith, Peter Saul, Philip Guston