Danny Romeril. Good day to own a brolly shop

Danny Romeril uses bold brushstrokes to create atmospherically abstract pictorial ideas on his canvases. Delineated, geometric shapes, impasto-painted surfaces and vivid lines structure the paintings in the exhibition, which were created from 2023 to the present day. ‘I stopped painting people in 2020. (...) Now the figures have reappeared,’ notes Danny Romeril, referring to the flatly painted groups or individual figures in his new works. The return of the figures is not the central focus of the picture or the picture story, but a static, creative element. The overall picture continues to be strongly characterized by color mood, architecture and interior and exterior spaces. Now they are obviously animated and open up a new level of meaning.

The architectural pictorial elements are sometimes concentrated, sometimes populated with persons and painted with strong, contrasting primary and secondary colors. In some works, Danny Romeril also uses black outlines to delineate the color shapes. Here applies: abstraction takes precedence over individuality and composition over narrative. Everything seems to vibrate, to be in motion and to describe relationships and processes. The people carrying umbrellas refer anonymously to the umbrella shop. The gravestones and the band members not only form a compositional ensemble, but also an ensemble on a relational level. The painter's self sits in the same monochrome shade of green in front of a lined-up collection of jugs. Is the waiting for an interested collector being portrayed here, the display, or is there a completely different connection between this arrangement and the figure?

‘In terms of technique I've continued to work in much a similar way, using anything and everything to find an image,’ says Danny Romeril. His technique has not changed. He collages the works from ideas, memories, videos, photos or content from Google Maps. The new works remind him of a vulture's prey. It has been torn apart, half-remembered, reworked and reassembled. The previously predominant theme of music has finally been moved from the center and is now only evident in the rhythmic painting style, repetitions or the swinging, modeling brushstroke.