Born in 1979, in Luxembourg.
Lives and works, in Luxembourg.
Education
BFA Marc Bloch University of Strasbourg, France
Presentation
In much of Quetsch’s work, the choice of materials, the means of manipulating them, and the spaces created by them are considered their content. The advantage of remaining within a traditional form such as painting is that it affords the ability to address the tenor, stresses and disarray of contemporary life from the vantage point of meditative remove, accompanied by sensate dramatics. This creates a psychic charge that seems to draw on the past as it fully addresses the present.
Joe Fyfe, Roland Quetsch, Editions Ceysson, 2018 - extract
Roland Quetsch is first and foremost (and was, chronologically) a manufacturer. The treatment of the picture carriers/ visual tools/ supports of his paintings makes them similar to structured canvases from the outset, thus to real pictorial objects with their game of reliefs, the opposition of horizontal bands given a priori by the canvas, their regularity and the almost insurmountable, as well in number as in fulguration, interweaving or even trellis, that overlays them. As a result, numerous openings, all highly animated, and a multiplicity of spaces, overlapping with varying degrees of depth, are created, giving the painting its life and topography. The quality of the art of Roland Quetsch, failing to speak of a miracle, is that these fragments, these broken, torn spaces, eventually lead to/ end in unity; the centrifugal movements do not alter however, quite on the contrary, they underline a substantial concentration. It is high time then to mention the other aspect of this art: Roland Quetsch is at least as much a colorist, which he demonstrates by the same ease with contrast as with monochromatic colour schemes. There is definitely something in this art/ painting which conveys delight/ rapture/ ravishment; yet, at the same time, it is always marked by the same level of rigor.
Text by Lucien Kayser 2011 (Exhibition Luxembourg - Salzbourg)
Collections
Villa Vauban, Luxembourg
Ministère de la Culture, Luxembourg
Cours de Comptes, Luxembourg
Musée National d’Histoire et d’Arts, Luxembourg
Ministère des Finances, Luxembourg
