Judgments

All the work by Roque is inspired on a civil protest against violence, oppression, demagogy and injustice together with the strict determination to formally search something new. Original, expressive and communicative language about the most ideologist and cultural avant garde from Europe and America.
Jean Pierre Jouvet
La Arena de Verona, Italy, 1975

Roque has recently exhibit at the Rizzoli Gallery in Milan. We find him in an international level, I mean, not only that he has lived in Paris, Florence or Verona but the universality of his work.
In his acrylics, he appears free from Pollock’s lessons but in his drawings appears a very personal technique with a formidable representative ability.
Sergio Stancanelli
Venezia, Italia, 1976

In each of his gestures one can find music, poetry and spirituality guide by a mastery that very few have.
Gino Bogoni
Verona, Italia, 1977

As painter, Roque produces all these: social eagerness, expression, academic perfection, almost sculpture volumes, sense of unit…one and another search that are encounters. It is important to follow him. His name must be considered in the history of our pictorial art.
Emma Rizo
UNAM, México D.F., 1980

Roberto Roque is a young painter, not only because of his age, but also because of his enthusiasm of search, his restless and his rebelliousness translated in a query about expression way and how he transforms line and space in the way he sees the world.
Myriam Frias
El Sol de México, México D.F., 1981

…A delicate surrealist trends, with any doubt, product of the unfolding reality in the mysterious field of dreams. The sum of personal experiences, studies of art applied in mental therapy, confrontation with landscapes and people in strange horizons that flow in a suggestive mixture of many of his paintings.
Carlos Vejar Perez-Rubio
Excelsior, México D.F., 1990
 

Maybe the last pictorial trend of this millenium is the new plastic creation “Roquismo”. Brought into life by the end of the seventies by the Mexican painter Roberto Roque.  In his endless search to express his art, Roque has invaded other materials, other colors, other figures and other spaces to consolidate his feelings up to the stones.
River stones with a great variety of forms, in the hands of Roque are transformed in artistic objects: bright colors invade its contour. Women with joyful gestures, wince of pain or astonishment slide through the walls, dreamy plants of many forms and colors take possession of its silhouette. Stones that metamorphose in eternal beings
Ramón Rivera Romero
El Heraldo de México, México D.F,  diciembre 1995

In Roque, the means perfectly correspond the necessity. His acrylics on wood always with more exhausting tones and chromatic scale, remind us the teaching of a great Mexican master as Rufino Tamayo beat in his fine textures in the skin as in the lights of its backgrounds.
Roque works with modern and antique techniques, providing a veil over a light veil, so his acrylics seem to bright in an internal light. For us is not a common art. Works that we hardly forget. This verification is a cognitive element. Is an acknowledgement for a mature and complete artist as Roque that introduces himself more convincing in an international scenario.
Francesco Butturini
L'Arena di Verona, Italia, 1997
 

For the complete search where pictorial and plastic technique join. In the individual and delicate execution of the effort to reinvent those values of formal purity and vary and antique cultures due to his role of bridge between antique and contemporary art. Roque can be considered among the most complete and interesting artists of the new American generation.
An enigmatic and luminous painting have a flavour of a  “surrealistic realism”. His quarrys, his plates of stones worked in low relief, painted combining with abridge rhythm through a delicate diversity of planes, extend the uncover zones that exalt the natural roughness of matter.
Claudio Facchinetti
Caprino Veronese, Italia, 1998

If we observe his inks, we perceive a fine drawing load of refine calligraphic impulse rescued from the ornamental arms to make them live and pulse of pure expressive energy. On the other hand, in his paintings he loves the chromatic variety, knowing how to harmonize with an oniric imagination. Painted as some examples in Mexican painting history.
Giorgio Trevisan
L'Arena di Verona, Italia, 1998

Roque begins from the essential historicity born from the psychiatric practice. From mural to mural surpasses Siqueiros, goes through Rivera to touch Orozco that initiate the adventure of great mural Mexican painting and weak icons, as Octavio Paz wrote “a reality of a current and eternal time, universal and concrete, a reality in endless fight with herself”
Is the artistic change of the quarrys, stony mass that Roque works polychromatically done by vibrant images strongly compromise with his time.
Vladimiro Zocca
Bolonia, Italia, 1999