Ravage is the result of the meeting of two creative souls.
Arnold van Geuns and Clémens Rameckers initially met at the Académie de Beaux Arts in Arnhem in the Netherlands and have worked together since 1976.
RAVAGE is an artist in the widest sense of the word. It reserves the right to be jack of all trades, and specialises in none, yet its work is always done with precision. Here, we still find the Nordic touch of Master Rietveld, but 25 years in France have managed to add a little Latin polish to sober lines. There is a solid cultural history behind this four-handed creation.
By means of an evocative game, a chain of logic leads to the conception of an initial idea. With its personalised method of creation, RAVAGE has created its own signature which is easily recognised.
Contrary to appearances, its style does not feature baroque elements, but on the contrary is a work which is anything but nostalgic.
Behind this allusive game there hide many historical figures, who in time initiated very different projects.
Napoleon and Josephine, Cain and Abel, Adam and Eve, Louis Napoleon the unhappy king of Holland, Jeanne and Gilles, all appear in the most diverse of forms. In furniture, in
accessories or on objects such as Swatch watches always developed with the strictest of symmetry. This need for symmetry can also be seen in more abstract subjects like, Good and Evil, Health and Sickness, the Red Cross and the Thorny Crown, the balance is reflected in the dominant use of Black and White.
In this pseudo-moralistic game RAVAGE brings subjects which have almost been forgotten by art, back to life. The images represent Charity, Patriotism, Love and Hate. These subjects, today considered as taboo, are treated in a light-hearted manner, rapidly written without scruples. A result which is sometimes troubling in its complexity.