Romain de Plas
Category: Books,Arts & Photography
Romain de Plas Details
About the Author Agnes Gund is president emerita of the Museum of Modern Art and Chairman of its International Council. She is the founder and a trustee of the Studio in a School Association and serves on the boards of The Frick Collection, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies, PS 1 Contemporary Art Center and Socrates Sculpture Park, among others. David Frankel is a writer and editor who lives in New York. He works as an editor for The Museum of Modern Art and is a contributing editor for the magazines Artforum and Aperture. Michael Whittaker Martin is a writer and translator who lives in Tokyo. Read more
Reviews
This book beautifully presents a wide range of amazing, unique and compelling artwork, mostly paintings done with acrylic on canvas or linen, but some composite works on plexiglass and other media. Mr. de Plas had a complex and subtle vision that he expressed with obvious passion and dynamism. I did not know him, but I was hired to photograph the artworks for production of this book. In the process of photographing nearly his entire body of work, I and my assistants were utterly smitten. We got to know the works quite well, and the publisher did a terrific job with the layout of the book and unusually accurate reproduction of the intense and subtle tones and colors of the works. My hat's off to them. This book does a beautiful job of presenting a really fascinating body of work by a painter whose career was cut short far too soon.