Dessa (artist)

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Dessa at Matsue Castle, Japan, 2017

Dessa (born December 20, 1948 in Bulawayo , Zimbabwe ), bourgeois Deborah Petroz-Abeles , is a Swiss artist .

Life

Dessa grew up as the white, Jewish child of a Polish mother and a Hungarian father who had completed his medical studies in Italy in a British colony in Africa . As a child, Dessa received music lessons in Bulawayo. So music became a great source of inspiration for her art. Before moving to Paris in 1977 and then to Switzerland in 1981, she worked as an occupational therapist .

Artistic creation

Dessa grew up in a society that was racially segregated . This experience is reflected in her art, which tries to create something that connects and crosses cultural boundaries.

As an interdisciplinary artist, Dessa is also interested in social contexts, medicine and nature, topics through which she explores her identity and her relationship to the past, present and future. Her media are painting, collage and wall painting. An important project was “A Tribute to Kaufhaus N. Israel 1815–1939”, which was shown in 2005 in the Jewish Museum Westphalia .

Dessa creates acrylic paintings, each series of which is inspired by a work by a 20th century composer. Josianne Rigoli wrote about her pictures, which were inspired by Leonard Bernstein's second symphony The Age of Anxiety : “Waves that burst into color, a fusion of extremes ... we are guided to the top of the universe so that we can taste its cruel beauty ". The artist studies the musical text, she reads about the composer and then immerses herself in this piece for months at a time.

The World of Wilfrid Israel (2015)

Music and art

For some time now, Dessa's interest in music and art has focused on the music of contemporary, living composers (Unsuk Chin and Detlev Glanert.) She also paints during live musical performances by artists (see Flying Colors , 2008 and Musiques et Pinceaux ).

Since 1986, over thirty exhibitions and presentations of her work have been shown in museums, galleries and concert halls in Europe. Her project “A Legacy from Theresienstadt”, a book (1997) and pictures inspired by Viktor Ullmann's 7th Piano Sonata, was presented in the Berlin Cathedral, where Ullmann's sonata was played live by the pianist Lala Issakova. There were further presentations in the Ghetto Museum of Theresienstadt with the Hawthorne Quartet and in the Museum of Pully , in the exhibition "Dessa: Lyric Abstraction 1990-2000"

Fieraments (2009)
Passacaglia l (2012)
Moonlight ll (2012)
Adagio xxiv (1997)

Exhibitions / selection

  • 1994: Galerie Bremer, Berlin - paintings based on Leonard Bernstein's "Age of Anxiety"
  • 1997: Gallery Lilian Andrée, Basel - "A Legacy from Theresienstadt" - paintings from Viktor Ullmann's Piano Sonata No 7
  • 1999: Galerie Bremer, Berlin - paintings based on Erich Korngold's "Abschiedslieder"
  • 2000: Musée de Pully, Switzerland - Dessa: Abstraction lyrique 1990 - 2000
  • 2004: Galerie Bremer, Berlin - collages and paintings "A Tribute to Kaufhaus N. Israel 1815-1939", presentation speech by Dr. Petra Lange, art historian,
  • 2005: Jewish Museum Westphalia - A Tribute to Kaufhaus N. Israel, Berlin 1815-1939
  • 2006: Galerie Bremer, Berlin - Land Escapes
  • 2006: Musée de Pully , Switzerland - From Hygiene to Art
  • 2008: Musique et Pinceaux: Live painting, 5 concerts in which the creative process was filmed and shown live on a projection surface, in collaboration with the composer Dominique Gesseney-Rappo, the conductor Blaise Heritier and the Flying Brass orchestra. Film: Bernard Villat.
  • 2008: Concerts de Monbenon, Lausanne - 10th anniversary of the Ph + Arts magazine. Lala Issakova, piano, projection on canvas of the pictures from "A Legacy from Theresienstadt"
  • 2008: Foyer District Court, Stuttgart- Bad Cannstatt - Dessa: Land Escapes
  • 2008: Exhibition at Centrum Judaicum, Cracow , Poland - 20th anniversary of the International Music Days Cracow composers - painting inspired by music by Olivier Messiaen and Viktor Ullmann
  • 2010: JayKay Gallery, Switzerland - Dessa: 2000 - 2010
  • 2011: Galerie Petra Lange, Berlin - Dessa Composition,
  • 2013: Galerie Petra Lange, Berlin: Dessa "Do we smile or do we weep? Paintings based on the Four Sea Interludes and Passacaglia from Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes. A Centenary Homage to Benjamin Britten, in collaboration with the music editors, Boosey & Hawkes
  • 2013: Shanghai Art Fair, represented by Galerie Steiner, Vienna
  • 2015: Espace culturel Assens - DESSA Peinture / Musique / Identité
  • 2015: Galerie Petra Lange, Berlin - DESSA - In the Darkness, the Light - in collaboration with the Mitte-Museum Berlin
  • 2015: Mitte Museum, Berlin - DESSA - Nathan Israel department store 1815–1939 - An artist explores history
  • 2017: Fondation l'Estrée, Ropraz, Switzerland - DESSA and VIKTOR ULLMANN
  • 2018: Frauen museum Wiesbaden - The Art of Remembrance: Alice Salomon 1872-1948
  • 2018: Exhibition Center Pyramide Berlin - Art and Remembering: Exhibition on the occasion of the commemoration of the anti-Semitic pogroms in November 1938

Publications

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ in her article Dessa, artiste peintre et citoyenne du monde (Coopération, 1992)
  2. ↑ [1]
  3. ↑ [2]
  4. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated August 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.flyingbrass.ch
  5. ↑ Mitte Museum, Berlin [3]
  6. ↑ Fondation l'Estrée [4]
  7. ↑ women museum wiesbaden [5]
  8. ↑ Pyramid Exhibition Center Berlin

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personal data
SURNAME Dessa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Petroz-Abeles, Deborah
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Bulawayo , Zimbabwe