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Marie-Thérèse Vacossin

1929
United States

8 Works exhibited on Kooness

Current location

Bâle and Bourgogne

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Works by Marie-Thérèse Vacossin

Sunodia 1 II

1995

Paintings , Acrylic

120 x 45cm

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Sator

2007

Paintings , Acrylic

120 x 120cm

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Anthé

2019

Sculpture , Serigraphy

31 x 90 x 4cm

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Imuli 1

2022

Paintings , Acrylic

90 x 90cm

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Enaili Aa3

2019

Paintings , Acrylic

60 x 60cm

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Icara 1

2018

Paintings , Acrylic

180 x 18cm

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Carrousel

2014

Prints , Sculpture , Silk screen printing

39 x 13 x 13cm

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Poncy Aa1

2019

Paintings , Acrylic

75 x 75cm

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If Marie-Thérèse Vacossin's work is initially based on logic and geometry, her colored paintings are above all linked to a lived sensory experience. At first glance, the images appear monochrome, but in fact they allow the color to vibrate.

For about twenty years, the work of Marie-Thérèse Vacossin has been eclectic. At the beginning of the 1950s, one finds influences from Viera da Silva, Nicolas de Staël, Antoni Tàpies, and Vincent Van Gogh.
 
From 1956 onwards, she focused her attention on construction, until in 1973 she adopted an absolutely abstract art based on chromatic agreements and effects, juxtaposed planes and the mastery of the incidence of light. She then followed in the footsteps of Joseph Albert (1888-1976), the precursor of optical art, in the sense that their pictorial preoccupations are centered on problems of color perception (according to their environment, their extent and their value). In order to privilege only the perception of the relations of the colored planes, it evacuates any accessory element. Thus, between 1991 and 1992, for a smoother and more homogeneous rendering of the surface and the color, she abandons oil paint for acrylic.
 
Finally, since 2001, she has been creating Plexiglas structures, composed of columns on which one or more bands of color are silk-screened. These are multiplied by the reflections and interact with their environment. In her recent works, colored and black / white, canvas and Plexiglas, Marie-Thérèse Vacossin proposes an artistic research around the line, the color and the space. The superimpositions, the modulations, the plastic organization of the colors... create movements: from front to back, from top to bottom, from inside to outside: the works play in space, with space.
 
Co-founder of the Fanal Edition in Basel, Marie-Thérèse Vacossin has devoted several decades to promoting the engraved work of numerous artists of the constructed art among whom Morellet, Nemours, Molnar, Honegger or Cruz-Diez.

2019: Histoires de gris à la galerie Oniris, Rennes

2015: Clarté d’Ombre à la galerie Oniris, Rennes

2012: Palpitations chromatiques, rétrospective, Musée de Cambrai

2010 : Géométrie et Couleurs, musée de Sens et Rythme linéaire, Galerie Oniris, Rennes

2007 à 2016: Art Paris au Grand-Palais, stand Oniris

2006 : Horizontales Verticale Seules, musée de Pontoise

2005 : exposition personnelle à la galerie Oniris, Rennes

2004 : FIAC Paris, stand Oniris (avec Nemours et Molnar)

1978 : Création de l’atelier Fanal à Bâle, Suisse

1964 : Salon de la Jeune Sculpture

1955 : Salon des Réalités Nouvelles

1947-56 : Études à l’École des Arts Décoratifs et à l’École du Louvre de Paris