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Aude JESSEMIN (born 1937)
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56
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Aude JESSEMIN (born 1937)
See original version (French)
Estimate €300 - €500
Voluntary lot
Description
Aude JESSEMIN (born 1937)
Untitled, 1976
Collage and mixed media
Signed and dated; label and annotation on the reverse: ‘Ville italienne’, Grenoble 1981.
33x25 cm
A leading figure in the Lettrist movement, Aude Jessemin was part of an artistic movement founded in 1947 by Isidore Isou. Originating in the realm of poetry and literary creation, Lettrism quickly expanded into numerous artistic fields, notably cinema, dance and the visual arts.
In this collage, Aude Jessemin unfolds a rich and varied world, constructed like a veritable visual rebus. The artist juxtaposes and reinterprets architectural and decorative references from a variety of sources: Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, an American skyscraper from the 1960s, fragments inspired by the frescoes of the Italian Primitives, Arabic script, chequered patterns and geometric motifs…
Assembled in a deliberately enigmatic composition, these elements seem to echo one another without ever immediately revealing their meaning, creating a work that is both erudite and surreal.
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