In what painting is concerned the artist is challenging the line. He is stating it on all tunings. Placed side by side in an infinite series with close or wider intervals, the lines create cadences like musical phrases. Strongly coloured, they sing, dance, fan the ardour of the eye like hypnotized by unexpected effects.
It is the art of the artist who is drawing the gattention of the spectator on changing paths, because not only color fields alternate with coloured lines, but also certain of them, slightly oblique, change the rythms of the work, accelerating or holding it back. It is a subtle game to which the specator undergoes, carried far away from the fields of the canvas.
The paintings of Jean Scheurer create an effect of continuity, a musicality, here and there expertly interrupted by monochromic fields, - like crotched-rests -, then the impulse is taking off again and is hurrying towards other flights of times. In this spirit, the artist is having a sort of permanent body fight with the line, imposing to it his rigour and the pertinence of his vision. However, the line, sometimes fluctuating, oblique, is giving character and personality to the work.
The line, - infinite according to its very fact -, is taking us in the most distant countries of the imaginary. And although its asserted trace rarely deviates from the charateristic rigour of the artist, the work puzzles and interpellates properly because of the few aside steps disturbing the order of things, creating altogether rythm, musicality, tension, rigour, but also irony, poetry, lyrism, coloured high glee. A wonderful experience that should not be missed !
Jean Scheurer, born in Lausanne, lives and works in Renens. After his studies at the Art School of Lausanne and a two-years trip arouond the world, he is creating with friends the group IMPACT together with an art gallery with the same name. Teacher at the Art school of Sion until 1985, he also teaches at the EPFL until 2009. Member of the Swiss commission of Fine Arts between 1985 and 1967 he is granted many distinctions, namely the grant Manganel en 1967, the mandate for the decoration of the train station at the airport of Geneva-Cointrin in 1983, and the price of the Leenards Foundation in 2011. His competences are also requested as an expert in varied juries and artistic commissions. Since 1967 he realizes over one hundred personal and group exhibitions, in Switzerland and abroad, and his works are represented in many public and private collections.
On cover : Sans titre, 2019, acrylic on canvas, 100 x 100 cm
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