Romeda focuses on the most simple, absolute geometric shapes - the square, the circle, and the triangle. From time to time, he will undertake variations on his chosen repertory of shapes - a circle warps into an ellipse or is truncated to an arc; a square is stretched out into a long rectangle. Recently he has been extending his sculptural line and dealing specifically with elongation, orientation, balance, scale and perspective.
Texture and form remain important formal consistencies in his work and the sculptures retain his ability to create rugged elegance. By starting with elemental shapes and giving form to each individual sculpture, it is the directness with which he works, and yet with infinite subtlety, that gives his work such authority - and at the same time makes it so seductive.
Illusion has become the basis of Romeda’s sculptural psychology. French art critic, Pascal Bonafoux, once described Romeda’s sculpture not as having volume where one can physically walk around, but as a ‘threshold’, a portal one may see through—a window to the unknown. Romeda has expanded his repertoire of illusion to include spatial dimensionality—where we once saw a square we now see a box.
His sculptures range from intimate works intended for placement within a living and/or working environment to larger works which can be placed indoors or out-of-doors, where they interact with the landscape -- framing and articulating space.
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