ROGER – Never be late

ROGER – Never be late. Writing the same name for over 25 years seems to lead to two possible scenarios: the painter reaches a kind of individual peak in style and composition, which is now constantly repeated with minor changes. Or the second, and considerably rarer, case: the painter who continuously works with his never-changing letters and faces the challenge of making his name look new, surprising and alive with each latest work.

In NEVER BE LATE, a prime example of the latter category, ROGER presents a selection of 55 works from 2006 to the present. Color panels in Vienna and Hall of Fame burners in Berlin, abandoned industrial black and white works and candy-colored S-Bahn trains or dirty subways combined with perfect traffic images in bright sunlight.

The remaining pages show hundreds of sketches. Unlike other publications from recent years where sketches are presented as perfect drafts of later works, you can follow ROGER working on ideas that sometimes require several attempts to become final outlines.

As you analyze ROGER's scribbles, you will find yourself checking the first half of the books over and over again for possible embodiments of his ideas, but also wondering if you may have seen them in traffic, online or if they were ever realized at all. Don't miss the chance to get the first ever printed publication by one of Berlin's foremost painters!