Martial Raysse

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Martial Raysse (born February 12, 1936 in Golfe Juan , Vallauris , France ) is a French painter , sculptor , object and installation artist . Raysse is one of the co-founders of Nouveau Réalisme .

life and work

Raysse grew up in Nice . He began painting watercolors in his earliest youth. As an artist he is self-taught, he turned to painting soon after studying literature in 1954 at the University of Nice . Initially he oriented himself towards the École de Paris , but soon broke away from abstract painting, which was currently popular. In 1957 he had his first solo exhibition at the Longchamp Gallery in Nice. During the vernissage he met Jean Cocteau . In Paris, Raysse joined a circle of artists that included the decollagists Raymond Hains and Mimmo Rotella , the object artists Arman and Jean Tinguely, and the monochrome artist Yves Klein . In October 1960, Raysse became a founding member of Les Nouveaux Réalistes under the direction of Pierre Restany .

In search of a “new realistic visual language”, Raysse began to experiment with everyday objects, which he put together to assemblages and ready-mades and arranged in boxes similar to shop windows. In the following years he also integrated neon tubes into his works and worked with screen printing, in which he used fluorescent colors, among other things. He often added other everyday objects to the pictures, such as B. parasols, shower curtains or inflatable paddling pools . He reacted to the emerging Pop Art with pastiche of the consumer world . For the exhibition Dylaby ( dynamic labyrinth ) in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in 1962 (together with Daniel Spoerri , Niki de Saint Phalle , Jean Tinguely and Robert Rauschenberg ), Raysse installed the sensational environment Raysse Beach , which was to bring him international fame. Due to its decorative proximity to pop art, American gallery owners soon became aware of the French. Throughout the 1960s, Raysse participated in exhibitions in the United States. From the mid-1960s, Raysse began making experimental short films such as Jesus Cola (1967). In 1968 he took part in the 4th documenta in Kassel . In the early 1970s, Raysse returned to the south of France and joined the artist group PIG. From this time on, numerous object boxes were created, mainly dealing with mysticism and magic . In 1981 Raysse had a major retrospective at the Center Pompidou in Paris. Another comprehensive overview of the artist's work was presented there from May to September 2014. In October 2014 Martial Raysse received the prestigious Praemium Imperiale in Tokyo , awarded by the Japan Art Association.

Martial Raysse now lives in Issignac in the Dordogne . His more recent landscape paintings and bronzes continue to deal with mythological themes.

Works (selection)

  • 1962: Seventeen (Titre journalistique) 
  • 1962: L'année dernière à Capri (Titre exotique) , 184 × 134 cm, 1962
  • 1963: Nu Jaune et Calme 
  • 1963: Soudain l'été dernier ( Suddenly last summer ). Musée national d'Art modern Center Georges Pompidou, Paris. 
  • 1964: Made in Japan. La Grande odalisque . Musée national d'Art modern Center Georges Pompidou, Paris. 

Exhibitions

literature

  • A. Jouffroy: Martial Raysse . Georges Fall Edition 1996, ISBN 2-910667-70-7
  • Beatrice Salmon: Martial Raysse: Chemin Faisant, Frere Crayon Et Sainte Gomme . Editions du Center Pompidou, Paris 1997, ISBN 2-85850-904-2
  • Uli Todoroff: Martial Raysse , Museum of Modern Art, Vienna 1993 (French and German)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ From Horst Richter: Painting of the 1960s. DuMont, Cologne 1990, p. 116, ISBN 3-7701-2272-0
  2. ↑ Martial Raysse Biography. Ludwig Museum in the Deutschherrenhaus, archived from the original on June 23, 2008 ; Retrieved September 18, 2008 .
  3. ^ Martial Raysse at Center Pompidou. Retrieved January 12, 2016 .
  4. ^ Palace of color and passion. Telegraph.co.uk , accessed September 19, 2008 .
  5. ↑ FAZ from February 19, 2011, page 36: This is a demonstration of strength
  6. ^ Gabriela Walde: The art empire on the Grand Canal. Die Welt , accessed September 19, 2008 . 
  7. ^ Martial Raysse, Soudain l'été dernier. Retrieved September 19, 2008 .
  8. ↑ Made in Japan, La Grande Odalisque. Retrieved January 12, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Raysse, Martial
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter, sculptor, object and installation artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Golfe Juan , Vallauris, France