Rochette
Born in 1978, Jérôme Rochette is an artist from Quebec City. He lives and creates in the St-Roch district.
His influences range from biology to tattooing to street art. He paints mainly on canvas with acrylic, spray paint, gesso, charcoal and marker. His work is symbolic and narrative. He likes to play with iconography and the sacred.
Jérôme Rochette's paintings aim to spark a dialogue between the representation of a given object and the artistic universe it inhabits. Jérôme Rochette's work is part of this intrinsic and subjective duality of the medium: The artist strives to translate reality with his materials, while inserting his own perspective into the work. Rochette has developed a unique artistic language using multiple layers, styles and techniques, which allows his work to acquire a distinct and dynamic tactility. Rochette's paintings are anchored in a powerful aesthetic through the use of formal elements such as color, texture and layering. Through Rochette's powerful, pure and spontaneous vision, the individual fragments of each piece are transmuted into a symbolic whole. The subjects represented in his works evoke a familiar and concrete reality, and the imagery they contain evokes very powerful concepts, even if it is not always linked to a specific theme.
It is up to the mind and analysis of the observer to make the connection between the artist's interpretation and the material form of the work. Jérôme Rochette's work represents a tension between the spontaneity - and necessary tangibility - of the media used and the uncertainty created by the conceptualization of the subject.