artist

Roger Nyssen

born in Aachen in 1953, is painter and engineer. He lives and works in Dormagen and runs the museum gallery "Haus Neu-Lemiers" in Aachen. In addition to large-format oil painting in cycles, his work also includes traditional printmaking and, more recently, relief sculptures in wood and steel. In his works there are references to Romanticism and Surrealism, as both are connected by a poetic power of the irrational and seemingly random.

Artistic approach: What holds the world together at its core? We suspect that despite all the progress, it is a fallacy to be able to explain our world with physical-mathematical knowledge alone.  But if reason and logic lose their universal claim to dominance, don't we need a new consciousness and other forms of communication with the material world in order to understand them? So as a painter, I am also called upon to go in search of apparent reality, awareness in matter, its hidden stories and always new forms of expression. Basically, I work in the space between the classical principles of intention and chance. Once a pictorial idea or a story has been created, I continue on the well-known paths of surrealist methods such as frottage or so-called automatic painting in order to experience hidden analogies and make them visible. A special divisionistical form of 'automatic painting' I call 'FILITOSA', after a mystical place in Corsica that inspired me years ago. FILITOSA also stands for my personal technique of sculptural painting and the attempt to freeze time in scenes and movements.

In a romantic as well as surreal way, I 'communicate' with natural forms in stone or sand, the special light of a place or ideal places of longing. Sometimes I am touched by special poems and stories, or just the poetry of a moment. All just seeds of association, far from any unambiguity. Sometimes I place the result in a mythological context, a provocation in the sense of the ambiguity of the source and the image. We can never be sure what is true and what is not.

Again and again, I dedicate myself to portrait painting, commissioned or people we must not lose sight of.

Exhibitions since 2018
09.2018           Aula Carolina, Kunstroute Aachen
11.2018           D’Art 2018, Dormagen
03-04.2019     Denkhaus-Ausstellung, Grevenbroich
09.2019           Catharinakapelle Vaals-Lemiers / Kunstroute Aachen
01-04.2020     Kulturhaus Dormagen
08-10.2020     Museum de Kopermolen, Vaals (NL)
10.20-02.21    Kirche St. Mariä Heimsuchung, Aachen-Herzogenrath
09.2021           Erphokirche Münster
03.2022           "aufbrechen"; Erphokirche Münster; group exhibition
09.2022           Kirche St. Cormelius, Alsdorf
since 09.22     Museum-Galery 'Haus Neu-Lemiers', Aachen, permanent exhibition
03.2023           UZE, Aachen
04.2023           Citykirche St. Nikolaus Aachen
09.-12.2023    'FILITOSA', Haus Neu-Lemiers, Kunstroute Aachen
12.11.2023     "Salvator mundi", Dormagen, inauguration of a dual relief sculpture
18.11.2023     Couven Gymnasium Aachen, etching and woodcut - old printing techniques
07.01.2024     "Auf Winterreise", intercultural concert in Tilburg, Abby Koningshoven, Netherlands
02.-03.2024    "gleich nebenan", Erphokirche Münster, group exhibition
25.02.2024     "Auf Winterreise", intercultural concert in Tilburg, Cinecitta, Netherlands
06-07.2024     Triptych "The long search", Citychurch Aachen
09-10.2024     "Letzte Lieder", Haus Neu-Lemiers, Kunstroute Aachen
10.24-01.25    "Winterreise", Exhibition in Museum de Kopermolen, Vaals (NL)
22.11.2024     "Auf Winterreise", intercultural concert in Vaals (NL)
12.2024           Teloymühle Meerbusch, guest artist
01.2025           "Auf Winterreise", concert and expo in Kulturhalle Dormagen
09-10.2025     "Lebendiges Bild", Portraitpainting, Haus Neu-Lemiers, Kunstroute Aachen
10-11.2025     "Winterreise", Expo in Kloster Langwaden, Grevenbroich
11.2025           Teloymühle Meerbusch, guest artist