Roland Massa - Large monochrome Litho "the darkness of man" edition of 40 - signed

• Artist: Roland Massa (Sint -Niklaas 1943 -)
• Technique: lithography on handmade paper
• Condition: excellent condition
• Signature: Signed by the artist, dated and numbered
• Framed: no
• Image size (in cm): 47 cm x 42 cm
• Dimensions of the work: 74 cm x 63.5 cm

Roland Massa is a Belgian artist born in Sint-Niklaas in 1943. He is a draftsman and graphic artist. He was educated at the Academy in Sint-Niklaas and at Sint-Lucas in Ghent. He received the Prize for Graphics of the Province of East Flanders in 1967. In 1968 he became a teacher at the Academy in Sint-Niklaas. His main sources of inspiration are the cosmic nature and the female nude. From the press: 'Cosmic is not an empty concept when one empathizes with this breathing, organically growing space, in which an endless microscopic life moves that is at the same time permeated by a brooding and yet grand silence. Both the flowing and round as well as the more pointed forms all have something vegetal or organic and at the same time they are included in a dense atmosphere of light-dark shades' and 'Until recently, the typical Massa drawing usually showed a fairly busy figuration: three, four or sometimes more equal figures, or in other cases a juxtaposition of related scenes. In the most recent scenes, however, a certain shift is noticeable. It seems that the once dominant motif of the human figure (the nude) is losing importance in itself, precisely to the advantage of the design, the thing-world. As in a cinematic close-up, a certain prop is then pulled to the foreground, while the human figure emerges rather vaguely, vaguely from the background or disappears into it.' (P. Huys, 1984) Roland Massa is mentioned in BAS II and Two centuries of signatures of Belgian artists. (Piron)