Jean-Claude REUSSNER (1926-2016) Temple of... - Lot 178 - Magnin Wedry

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Jean-Claude REUSSNER (1926-2016) Temple of... - Lot 178 - Magnin Wedry
Jean-Claude REUSSNER (1926-2016) Temple of Light III, 1990 Marble from Thassos. 23 x 50 x 42 cm Exhibition: Villa Datris, Isle-sur-la-Sorgue Jean-Claude Reussner's work is the story of a synthesis between the two facets of the same artist: the painter, who trained at the age of twenty in the studios of André Lhote and Fernand Léger and had his first solo exhibitions in Geneva and Lausanne in the 1960s; and the sculptor, who took over his father's foundry in 1961 and worked for twenty years for numerous artists throughout the world. It was in the early 1980s that Reussner decided to devote himself to sculpture. At first, and quite naturally, he worked in bronze, but his demand as a visual artist led him to look for a material better able to express not only his taste for a geometric structuring of space, already very present in his paintings, but also his search for an immediately perceptible tactile and visual sensuality. It will be the stone, and more specifically two stones, the white marble of the Greek island of Thasos, and the gabbro, this black plutonic rock resulting from slow crystallizations of the South African grounds. Here again, two facets of the same approach: he chooses the most radiant white marble, this crystalline stone almost diaphanous and translucent at the edges, but also the best able to trap shadows, and the deepest black basalt, but also the most apt to capture and reverberate the light... Thus he leads this continuous research from white light to black light. These works sculpted in black or white rest on a fundamental form, founding: the cube. It is from this geometry, which he considers perfect, that Reussner invents spurts, oblique stacks, penetrations, worked with an acute science of the void. The same challenge, consisting in banishing any idea of color, in privileging a constant research of the light and a rigorous organization of the space, presides over his pictorial approach. Reussner's black and white squares are ordered according to a pure, cosmic geometry and the harmony of the golden ratio. Oxymoron of the shade and the light, the full and the vacuum, the rigor and the sensuality, the unity and the bursting, the work of Reussner is that of an architect and a poet. Represented by the Denise René Gallery and the Lynedjian Gallery (Switzerland) in the 1990s, then the Meyer Zafra Space, Jean-Claude REUSSNER's work is in the tradition of geometric and kinetic abstraction.
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