The Urban paintings started few years ago with a frustration.

Canvas was not a good support for my paintings anymore because of a static reading on walls
( fixed right and left, up and down ) , mostly I wanted to hide the surface, to break down the status …
So I started to work with the idea that paint is everywhere and that painting is spatial and alive.

In 2002 I began to operate in two and a half dimension and I realized the first urban painting in Brussels in 2004 for the Comptoir du nylon. Since then I make my colours actions everywhere I go.

I react as a painter : streets & local public areas are my canvas. The work is specific to a place, it takes part of it, which means people are straight connected to painting and to there own thinking. The chance to see a monochrome in the street is not often... With the Urban paintings I try to make abstract art becoming objective, ludic, popular and sensitive for every eyes can see.
In Brussels, Japan, New York, Madrid, Paris & Moscow I did the streetgumming action, means painting in pink the dirty chewing gums stocked on the pavement . In Leiden, Kortrijk & Brussels I made the Overflow morphic gums, spirit of colours which consists of paint coming down from one point to another. Actually, the Rose Fontains in Brussels & Kortrijk were my best paintings ever made.

With those painting actions I create a contaminated area around the idea that minimal art has its own way of being narrative. The minimal statement : What you see is what there is . is an obvious concrete vision of life, of seeing the world, the colours and the forms. Where everybody can make his own experience. Minimal art gives the possibility to explore relations and tensions between forms, colours, time and space without reference to images.

I want to explore minimal art, want to create connections, to stimulate behaviors and make people eyes smiling!… like I do in my pop actions, creating situations and curiosity, forms and colours free of interpretation and reading. They are what they are and you see them the way you are.

Bernard Marcelis, a French writer who collaborates with many art magazines, wrote : “ the colours in Leopoldine Roux ‘s painting becomes a medium, the colours gain in autonomy and give the identity of the work. We want to touch them, to smell them, and why not to taste them. It's a sensitive way of painting the appetite of every day life.”

I would say :” It's a sensitive way of exploring minimal paintings” .

I still continue to work on canvas, fighting with the surface....

cross roads , note d'atelier 16 08 2008.