This exhibition is a tribute to this multi-talented artist who,
at the end of his studies, after having travelled the world, China, Hong Kong, the United States, worked to shake up the art of his city, Lausanne, by creating the Impact group. Also impressed by German and Dutch constructivists and Swiss concrete art, notably Max Bill, Thomas Lohse and Arthur Honegger, he was first interested in sculpture on plexiglass before turning to painting and geometric abstraction.
In the field of painting, especially since the 1990s, it is the line that challenges the artist. He declines it in all tones. He juxtaposes it in an infinite succession, repeats it in a close or more spaced cadence, creates rhythms, musical phrasings. Brightly colored, the lines sing, dance, fan the eye that comes alive, as if hypnotized by unexpected effects. It is all the artist's art that takes the spectator's gaze on changing paths, because not only flat areas of color alternate singing, dancing, stirring up the eye that comes alive, as if hypnotized by unexpected effects. It is all the artist's art that takes the viewer's gaze on changing paths, because not only do flat areas of color alternate with colored lines, but some of them, slightly oblique, alter the rhythm, sometimes accelerate or hold it. It is a subtle game to which the spectator is subjected, dragged beyond the sole field of the canvas.
Jean Scheurer's canvases create a continuity, a musicality sometimes expertly interrupted by monochrome fields, - like a sigh - then the momentum resumes and rushes towards other volleys of measures. In this spirit, the artist delivers with the line a kind of permanent body-to-body, imposing his rigor and the relevance of his vision. However, fluctuating, the line is granted here and there some diagonal liberties to give character to the work and give it its personality.
The line, infinite by definition, takes us to the most distant lands of the imagination. And although its assertive outline in verticality rarely deviates from this characteristic rigor of the artist, the work intrigues and challenges precisely by these few deviations that disturb the order of things, creating at the same time rhythm, musicality, tension, rigor, but also irony, poetry, lyricism and colorful jubilation. A great master has gone. May his work live.
Jean Scheurer, Lausanne 1942, Cully 2023. After years of study at the Ecole cantonale des Beaux-Arts in Lausanne and a two-year trip around the world, he founded with friends the group IMPACT and a gallery of the same name. Professor at the Ecole cantonale des Beaux-Arts de Sion until 1985, he was also a lecturer at EPFL until 2009. Member of the Federal Commission of Fine Arts between 1985 and 1992. Winner of several awards, he received the Manganel Scholarship in 1967, a mandate for the decoration of the Geneva-Cointrin airport station in 1983 and the Leenards Foundation prize in 2011. His expertise is also called upon as an expert on various juries and artistic commissions. Since 1967 he has held more than a hundred solo and group exhibitions, in Switzerland and abroad, and his works are represented in numerous public and private collections.
Legend of the work : Untitled, 1998, acrylic on canvas, 150 x 150 cm
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