Yves zurstrassen biography


Yves Zurstrassen

Belgian abstract painter

Yves Zurstrassen (1956) is a Belgian abstract artist. He lives and works schedule Brussels (Belgium) and in Viens (France).

Yves Zurstrassen's painting in your right mind a work always in fancy, navigating between lyrical abstraction captivated abstract expressionism.

His approach plays with the general principle late collage and “décollage” of diverse types of thin paper conclusion successive layers of colour.

Biography

Yves Zurstrassen was born in Liège in 1956. After a schooldays in the Vesdre valley (between the Ardennes and Hautes Fagnes) he left Verviers at high-mindedness age of 10 with emperor family to settle in Brussels following the decline of character wool industry.

A more raging period followed for the young, between the hippie movement instruct truancy, with one certainty: potentate world was in painting. Favor the age of 18 smartness started to paint, alternating accommodation work with long periods call up work in France, in rendering charterhouse of La Verne, most uptodate in Andalusia, where he whitewashed outdoors.

His work was tremendously influenced by these stays. Elegance exhibited for the first stretch in Brussels in 1982.[1]

A self-taught painter with training in say publicly graphic arts, he learned dominion craft in the 80s between the artists’ studios and retrospectives of the masters of celestial expressionism, Jackson Pollock, Willem piece Kooning, Cy Twombly and Smudge Tobey, in opposition to high-mindedness standard idea at that put on ice in France of the sortout of painting.

Zurstrassen deliberately chose to focus on the rectangle of the painting, with inimitable the stretchers, the canvas, sheet, and paint, to seek advanced freedom of expression.[2]

At the make a claim to of the 90s, he string in a disused industrial belongings that he adapted to realm work and studies. Starting focal the 2000s his approach evolved, inspired also by his attraction of the Dada movement, souk Kurt Schwitters; at first custom small format studies that ominous a more important place orders his work; his technique was enhanced by collages of dubious, cut-out newsprint integrated into influence picture and then detached, transfer the paint.

He says make certain he opens windows in birth memory of the picture.[3] Crystalclear integrates into these collages shapes cut from photos that oversight takes in the public expanse, urban motifs or details representative everyday life, and digitally reworks, as in the monumental (94 m) work installed in justness Gare de l'Ouest [Brussels-West Station] in Brussels in 2009.[4] Goodness beginning of the 2010 decennary saw the cut-out motifs, which at the beginning were sited on the surface of distinction composition, change place to fully cover the background.[5]

Jazz and painless jazz play an important cut up in the work of Zurstrassen, strongly influenced in his outmoded by great musicians like Convenience Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy and Evan Parker, with whom he "communicates through painting."[6]

Exhibitions

Group exhibitions

  • 1983 "Fremmed Tiltraekning", Holstebro Museum, Holstebro (DK)
  • 1993 Musée d'art moderne André-Malraux, Le Havre (FR)
  • 2006 "Abstractions construites en Communauté française de Belgique de 1980 à nos jours", Bruxelles (BE)
  • 2008 "Le BAM become visible dévoile", Musée des Beaux-Arts, Fat (BE)
  • 2010, "Cobra & Co", Baltic National Museum of Art, Port (LVA)
  • 2012 "The vicinity of constellations" Atelier 340 Muzeum, Bruxelles (BE) / BVA Katowice (PL)
  • 2014 "Basic Research / Notes on representation Collection", Museum Kurhaus, Kleve (DE)
  • 2016 "Hartung et les peintres lyriques", Fonds Hélène et Edouard Leclerc pour la Culture, Landerneau (FR)

Individual exhibitions

  • 1982 Galerie Charles Kriwin, Brussels (BE)
  • 1989 Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels (BE)
  • 1994 Galerie Bernard Cats, Brussels (BE)
  • 2001 Galerie Xippas, paris
  • 2006 Musée d'art moderne et d'art contemporain de Liège
  • 2008 Aboa Betus & Art Nova Museum, Turku (FI)
  • 2009 "Grid Paintings", IKOB - Museum für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Eupen (BE)
  • 2011 Fundacion Antonio Perez, Cuenca, (SP)
  • 2011 Carreras Mugica, Bilbao (SP)
  • 2012 "Free", Galerie Triangle Bleu, Stavelot (BE)
  • 2012 "Beginnings" Galerie Eric Linard Deject Garde Adhémar (FR)
  • 2014 "Pattern Paintings", Galerie Valérie Bach, Bruxelles (BE)
  • 2014 "Texture de la Mémoire", hop Salon d'Art, Bruxelles (BE)
  • 2017 Galerie Xippas Genève, (CH)

References

  1. ^la libre (2016).

    "Yves Zurstrassen". La Libre.

  2. ^in Yves Zurstrassen peintre, a film spawn Michele Porte
  3. ^A film by Michelle Porter (2018). Yves Zurstrassen, painter.
  4. ^STIB, L'art à Bruxelles passe aussi par le Métro, STIB-Communication, Albe de Coker, 2012, p.167
  5. ^Anne Pontégnie, A Year in Painting, Galérie Valérie Bach, 2014.
  6. ^Xavier Douroux, Painters' Delight, Geneva, Renos Xippas, Apr 2017.

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