ROME.- PostmastersROMA, under the directorship of Paulina Bebecka, announced the opening of its new permanent space located on via G. Mario Crescimbeni, 11 in Rome, just next to the Colosseum. The first exhibition is a show of haiku wall paintings by Rafaël Rozendaal.

Rozendaal started writing poems in the style of the traditional Japanese haiku on his phone in 2013. They took the shape of website posts and tweets, finally morphing into a publication and non physical artworks - the wall paintings on view at the gallery.

Nervous, is an exhibition of 13 unique Haiku works, directly painted onto the wall; each comprising a standard color (five to choose from) and a broadly available font (Trebuchet). Accompanied by a sales contract, the works can only exist in one location at a time. They are transferable, in a similar fashion to the Sol Le Wit drawings; erase, choose a new space and paint again. The first installation for collectors in Rome is offered as courtesy by Postmasters Gallery. Easily collectable and indestructible, the works take no storage space, yet when displayed they exist in reality as paintings. Essentially, a perfect artwork for the minimalist times.

In short, the Haiku works are precise, laconic and focused, exactly in synch with Rozendaal’s aesthetic and ideology; they are distilled thoughts, brain shortcuts, the essence of universal truths, ideas and sentiments about the mundane.

The selected Haikus in the show reveal the anxiousness of our time. Things we all think, thoughts our brains produce, self doubt, deprecating slants, desires, slight annoyances and frustrations.

i should be
i’m not
why not

i’ll do it
real soon
i promise

Accompanying the exhibition is a book of the haiku poems written by Rafaël Rozendaal in its updated second edition, and is available online.

Dutch-Brazilian, born in 1980, Rafaël Rozendaal creates installations, tapestries, lenticulars, haiku and websites, which are spread out over a vast network of domain names and attract a large online audience of over 45 million visits per year.
His work has been exhibited in Times Square, Centre Pompidou, Venice Biennial, Casa Franca Brasil Rio, TSCA Gallery Tokyo, Seoul Art Square, NIMk Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum and is included in the Whitney Museum and Stedelijk Museum collections among others.