Youri Messen-Jaschin

1981

Youri Messen-Jaschin () is an artist of Latvian origin, born in Arosa, Switzerland, in 1941. He often combines oils and gouaches. His favourite colors are: strong reds, yellows, greens, and blue. He also works in body painting, exhibiting his works in nightclubs.

Life

From 1958–1962 his artistic studies led him to the higher national school of fine arts (student of Professor Robert Cami) and to the Practical school of the Sorbonne, division of social sciences (history of art, Professor Pierre Francastel) in Paris.

From 1962 until 1965, he went to the School of Fine Arts in Lausanne. He worked with the engraver and painter Ernest Pizzotti. Exhibition of Lausanne in 1964 with his kinetic glass and acrylic sculptures. He worked two years at the Center of Contemporary Engraving in Geneva. Then, he worked in Zürich, where he broadened his pictorial perspective with the painter Friederich Kuhn thru experience of the circle in the face. From 1968 until 1970, he acted at the University of Högskolan för design & Konsthantwerk in Göteborg, where he created researches of textile kinetic objects. In 1967, he met at an exhibition in Göteborgs Konsthall Jesús – Rafael Soto, Carlos Cruz-Diez and Julio Le Parc. Speaking with these artists, he discovered to be fascinated by optical art. He decided to devote all his research to kinetic art. An extended stay in Göteborg gave him the opportunity to constantly evolve in movement and geometric shapes, integrating them in his textiles and oil paintings. His research in optical art had a significant impact in this area in Scandinavia.

In 1968, Youri received the first prize for the Swiss contemporary engraving art. The same year, he got a scholarship from the Swedish government. In the 1970s, he stayed in Hamburg where he continued to work with artists from northern Germany, collaborating with him on different monumental projects. In 1970, he created a kinetic sculpture for Gould in Eistetten, near the Black Forest in Germany.

He took up residence in Bern from 1970 to 1981. His various stays abroad allowed each time to establish a link with artists working in the same artistic movement. Architecture plays an important role in his paintings and sculptures, the search for movement Op Art (kinetic art) in architectural space is a whole, and he could talk about it with Oscar Niemeyer, Burle Marx, in Rio de Janeiro, Otake in São Paulo in Brazil, and Clorindo Testa in Buenos Aires. He stayed in Caracas at the end of his trip, where he staged theatre and choreography of his own works which are presented at the Ateneo of Caracas and the VIth Festival Internacional de Teatro, Fundacion Eugenio Mendoza, Asociación cultural Humboldt (Goethe-Institut) and the Alliance Française, 1984.

He participated in many international exhibitions and got awards from research in optical art in Italy. His works are in private collections, in national and international museums.

He also had the privilege to sell his unique tapestry in the style of pop art "More Light". He was enthusiastic about the use of color in this art style. The Contemporary Art Museum Migros in Zürich was interested in this work. This tapestry was made in the 1970s in his loft in Zollikofen near Bern in Switzerland. This tapestry belongs to the collection of Migros Vaud/Switzerland.

After a stay of several months in New York, he returned to Switzerland where he took up residence in Bern, where he lived for eleven years. During his stay, he frequently exhibited at the Kunsthalle and other local museums.

He created for the Swiss Post, 3 stamps in optical art in 2010.[1] Museums focus on his work: Kunsthaus Zurich, Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich, Cabinet des estampes in Geneva and abroad, the Royal Museum of fine arts in Brussels. The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam as well as other museums and private collectors in the United States, Japan and Europe buy his kinetic works to complete their collections.

2014 Laboratory of Neuroimaging – University Hospital of Vaud (CHUV) – Lausanne, The 'laboratory of neuroimaging proceeds to imaging using non-invasive magnetic resonance to map and locate the points of brain activity. During this visualization, the application of this process on the participants viewed by "Op Art" will allow locating the effects on the brain.

Work

These sculptures are enriched by motion, set in the environment (movement and shifting in space), complimented by concrete musical sounds (movement triggers the production of sound). His first research with sound dates back to the end of the 1960s. In 1970, Youri integrates neon in his art, which he continues to use today in his sculptures, installations and oil paintings. He participates in numerous international exhibitions and has received awards from research in the field of optical art in Italy. His work is exhibited in numerous private and public exhibitions and his art is found in private collections and national and international museums.

His works call for de-programming of the viewer's mind in favor of pure sensation which is the "catalyst" for daydreams. The works of Youri Messen-Jaschin, a prolific and multifaceted artist, reveal upon looking at them a prismatic universe of which the disorienting power immediately does away with the bearings of our usual vision by causing the vanishing lines themselves to vibrate, lines which shape our awareness of perspective and relief. Thus, this sudden erasure of geodetic anchors allows us to immerse ourselves in the pure, shimmering and disturbing sensation of color in motion.

His compositions "Trip…, Living in… On Line…", lines of colors traced on materials creating an effect of transparency, reproduce especially subtle kinetic structures that link abstract and illusion on the one hand and a psycho-physiological demonstration of motion on the other.

The basic element, the square, serves as a backdrop and is enriched with another geometric shape inserted on its sides. These geometric forms uniformly represented across the surface of the work develop progressively without losing their identity, even when the artist applies a mesh of parallel lines. He uses the technique of collage for his oil and gouache works. His favorite colors: reds, yellows, bright greens, shades of blue, luminous hues.

As with the algorithmic construction of the elements, the interplay of colors structures the plastic and makes a first attempt at integrating cybernetics in art. His method is empirical, creating new perceptions of colors and optical effects that are particularly striking. Geometric forms such as squares, triangles and circles develop progressively without losing their original identity, even when the artist weaves an irritating mesh of parallel lines.

Youri Messen-Jaschin's use of motion and color as a means of communication ranks him among the kinetic architects of space.

He has also had the honor of selling his sole tapestry created in the style of Pop Art, "More Light". He thought up this work while staying in New York where he met the Pop Art artists Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann and Jasper Johns. He was thrilled by the use of color in this type of art. The Migros Museum of Contemporary Art in Zurich took an interest in this work. This tapestry was created in the 1970s in his workshop located in Zollikofen, Switzerland. In a startling manner, in his creation "More Light", the bulb appears in Pop Art as a subversive force that eludes the myths and emblems of the world of consumption. It can be found in the collection of Migros in Vaud, Switzerland.

After staying in New York for several months, he returns to Switzerland where he settles in Bern, a city in which he then lived for eleven years. During his stay, he frequently visited the Kunsthalle and other museums in the region. Museums take an interest in his work: the Kunsthaus in Zurich, the Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich, the Cabinet des estampes in Geneva, and the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, other museums and private collectors in the United States and Europe purchase his kinetic works to complete their collections.

His creations were also well received in Venezuela where he lived for a few years. The Mendoza Foundation and Yonekura Industrial provided him with the financial support he needed to advance in his research. Here, Youri goes on to try his hand at stage direction, presenting two important works at the Sala de Conciertos del Ateneo and at the Teatro Ana Julia Rojas del Ateneo in Caracas which were a resounding success. He was invited on numerous occasions to perform the stage direction of his own writings.

An expert, among other things, in body art painting, he presents his work in clubs and on stages, in darkness and thanks to UV lights, within four hours, he completely covers naked bodies with psychedelic, organic colors which are harmless to skin. When invited to the Montreux Jazz Festival, Festival de la Cité in Lausanne and the Paléo Festival in Nyon 2006 by Le Matin, a daily newspaper, Youri was commissioned with painting the old posters of the Montreux Jazz Festival and Paléo Festival on festival-goers skin. Among the most highly demanded, that of Keith Haring (1983), Jean Tinguely (1982) and Zep (2005). For the Paléo Festival, the 2006 poster created by Ludovic Gabriel was the most highly sought after.

Bibliography

Books – Magazine

Encyclopedic

Theater

Exhibitions

Gallery

References

  1. ↑ https://issuu.com/messenjaschin/docs/focus_of_stamps_9e9a6d19004129

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