Max Rohr – Looking through the trees. A Distorted Diary 2010 – 2011

It all began in small notebooks, that are not so different from the notebooks that appear in paintings. There is a close relationship between notebook and framework, customary and formal vocabulary that differs only in gradual. The notebooks that we see in works like The meeting, One evening last fish or are a substitute for notebooks that Max Rohr always brings with it, that outlines the ideas and notes compositions. The paintings and watercolors on paper are nothing more than a restatement of those small-scale sketches, already fully defined in their details, in the proportions and relationships between the various elements.
In Lonely Day and If I was an Architect male figures shaking hands between their notebook / notebook, pondering the thoughts that will be transcribed in the form of images; of those notebooks only see the cover, but their content is not precluded, There is in fact explained why the painting is just a duplicate of what is kept inside the booklets.

Taken from the critical text Visual Clipboard Alberto Zanchetta

Volume published on the occasion of the exhibition "Max Rohr. Looking through the trees. A Distorted Diary 2010 - 2011 "by Alberto Zanchetta: 26 November 2011 – 8 January 2012 | Bonelli ArteContemporanea, Mantua