Black is also a colour

For Rando, colour, in art, must be free. Free of preconceived notions and free of rules and dictates. Green can be used to represent hope, but so can black, says the painter. 

When examining a work of art, we usually try to decipher why the painter has used this or that particular colour. Rando tells us: I don’t choose colours, they choose me. 

2020 proved to be a very fruitful year for the artist. From that first period of isolation was born this series of portraits that rely on figuration without losing the essence of the painter’s free, strong and expressive brushstroke. Eighteen faces look at us from the walls. A deep continuous blackness envelops us to show us their intimacy. It urges us to engage with their madness, loneliness, love, abandonment, encounters; to the butterflies about to take flight or the yellow eyes of a cat.