PRAVDA I999-2001.

Pravda is not only a moralising interpretation of the political and geographical pulling down of the East as anybody could imagine it at first sight. It's a huge work which reflets our epoch, it makes the spectator lose his bearings by spreading stir and confusion.
It's a sort of revealing opinion in which Rochez displays a personal didactic, violent and somewhat humorous, let's say sardonic view upon man's behaviour towards his fellow-creatures.
Pravda is a real thought about our every day avents, its a sole and world-wide work by it's writing.
Like a mirror, this painting sends back to us a world-wide social-critical image.
Rochez instinctively understands the affective shock of the language of the values and of materials he uses for painting.
In his searches about timelessness, he creates here in his composition an immovable atmosphere: personages, objects, even the tank seem to be paralysed in duration of time as a threat.
The painter appeals to feeling and to emotion, not to an anecdote. Eye and watching imagination, Jean-Marie Rochez is passionately fond of playing throught the space: seventeen doors of all sorts found here and there, are used as supports to his work and it's on this anarchic background of full glazed, ancient, modern doors, he composes his revealing opinion.

Rochez always troubles established order in matter of art, he disconcerts. In spite of his huge mass, the redoubtable tank, head subject, the above conjuring up of mortality is uttered, in this work, as a paper toy, it's meanningless, it's only a temporal symbol of power which means that weapons power can't vanquish man and his ideal.