In Delcol`s hyperrealistically painted collages, surrealism meets pop art, Botticelli's Venus meets Picasso's Minotaur, Whistler's Mother meets Walt Disney, and the Nude Woman meets the Man with the Hat. The metaphorical worlds of his characters unite various times and places, customs, and taboos. In 1982 Delcol's longtime friend, Belgian surrealist, poet and author Louis Scutenaire, penned a book about the artist's works entitled “La chanson de Roland”. Scutenaire considers Delcol's works to be comparable with those of the great Belgian visionary René Magritte, about whom he has also written a biography. The author of Delcol's 2005 monograph “Roland Delcol: Ou l'objet de désir et de métaphore”, author, art historian and collector Axel Hinrich Murken, declared the artist one of the most original and remarkable representatives of hyperrealism and today's postmodern pluralism.Delcol's works lack names. Each of them carries the title “Sans paroles” ­- “Untitled”. The author himself explains this by referencing 20th-century silent films, where we see all the action but must think up the explanations and connections on our own. “The viewer must create his own title for each work!” he explains. His works are also updated; he feels their date of completion is irrelevant. “Everything is contained in everything else, everything depends on everything else, the series of cause and effect is endless - but it contains stops and diversions,” says Delcol, expounding on the metaphysics of his work. “The first and most noticeable things are never the last or most definitive. My works lack references to time.” Sans paroles, sans temps.Size: 23.6"H x 31.5"W Oil on canvas

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