Geneviève Claisse is born in 1935 in Quiévy, her pictrual calling is born in the reading of Art d'Aujourd'hui, a platform dedicated to geometric abstraction art. Her works is a rigorous exploration of this line of art and she has never had the desire to part. 'As a pupil, I was already abstract', she said.
Read MoreSince 1958, Claisse adheres herself to the ideas of Abstract Creation created by Herbin. In 1960, her contribution at the Salon de Mai demonstrates a work with a structure of spaces rich in colours, where the game of basic shapes and subtle colours shaken by its vitality and sensibility. In 1961, she organised her first show at the galerie denise rené in Paris, where she hold exhibitions regularly ever since.
In 1965, she focuses on the work on colours. It is during these years that Geneviève Claisse dissociates herself from the influence of Auguste Herbin and Mondrian. In the middle of the 60s, triangles and circles, treated differently, become her plastic vocabularies, which introduces her in the kinetic studies applied on surfaces. She concentrates on the purification of her creations, always and inevitably geometrics, in terms of the forms and colors. Reflections and researches, accompanied an abundant creativity along the development of optical art and kinetic art. In 1967, le Musée des Beaux-Arts of Chaux-de-Fond exhibits the works from the previous 10 years and then a major Swiss collector exhibit his collection in Zurich, around thirty of Claisse's works, which he acquired between 1959 and 1967, are shown side by side with the grand masters of contemporary art. There are other significant exhibitions in Oslo, Alençon and Lille, etc. In 1989, a retrospective dedicated to her takes place at the musée Matisse du Cateau-Cambrésis.
Text courtesy galerie denise rené.
