Geneviève ASSE
Born in 1923 in Vannes
She passed away in August 2021 at the age of 98
She has been exhibiting at the Oniris gallery since 1995
2020 : Bleu, 6th solo show, Galerie Oniris, Rennes
+ Galeristes art fair, Anthologie de l’Art Français section, Paris
2018 : Art Paris Art Fair, solo-show stand Oniris
2015 : Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon
2014 : Peintures, solo exhibition, galerie Oniris, Rennes
2013 : Peintures, solo exhibition, Centre Pompidou, Paris
+ Musée de la Cohue, Vannes
2011 : Musée Fabre, Montpellier
2010 : Musée des Beaux-arts, Rouen
2009 : Cabinet des estampes et dessins – Biennale internationale de la gravure contemporaine, Liège, Belgique
2008 : Musée Lambinet, Versailles
+ Vitraux de la collégiale Notre-Dame, Lamballe
2006 : Musée des Beaux-arts, Quimper
2004 : Musée de la Cohue, Vannes
2003 : Musée des Beaux-arts, Rennes
2002 : Musée des Beaux-arts, Tours
+ Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris
1999 : « L’art dans les chapelles », Morbihan
1998 : Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Genève, Suisse
1997 : Musée de la Cohue, Vannes
1988 : Musée d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris
1980 : Musée des Beaux-arts, Rennes
1970 : Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Paris
1968 : Musée des Beaux-arts, Reims
1957 à 1965 : participe régulièrement aux Salon de Mai et au Salon des Réalités Nouvelles
Since the 1940s, Geneviève Asse has been giving us an extremely rich art form whose quality and depth transports us into a contemplation that is meant to be silent. Geneviève Asse uses only one colour, blue, on her canvases of various sizes, from tiny to large, high to wide.
I believe that my blue is not quite a blue. It contains me. In addition, there is air, water. The slate if I bend down to earth. There can be so many things in the contents of the blue. Also a kind of joy. The blue fills you with joy. Sometimes there is drunkenness in the painting, and painful struggles. That's why, despite appearances, I don't believe that my painting is now neither smooth nor monochrome. The tones have come together and give this feeling of unity: the colour has balanced itself.
In Geneviève Asse's work, blue is synonymous with infinity, distance and fullness. For the painter, this hue is the only one which, covering the support of the canvas, also allows to cross it. In order to situate itself in depth, blue needs an architecture, the artist says of herself that "Space is composed of summary and sensitive forms that are balanced by the mass and by light, an architecture is created.
It is with painting that the artist fully approaches the theme of opening, of door, of elementary architecture that opens an enclosed space and allows light to infiltrate. This form of opening is given by lines whether horizontal or vertical dividing the canvas in two.
Numerous exhibitions have already revealed the work of Geneviève Asse who, from her early still lifes to the abstraction of her blue canvases, questions and privileges the theme of light.
In her paintings, Geneviève Asse reveals one of her primary concerns: division. Her canvases are as if torn apart, incised with a fine line, sometimes red, sometimes white, like a scar of light. This recurring division in her work poses the problem of the partition and the meeting of the full and the empty, this essential act for the artist then distinguishes two parts on the canvas, to then better seal them in the whole.
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Lignes d'espace, 8/20, 2001Eau forte sur papier
Etching on paper76 x 57.5 cm
30 x 22 3/4 inView more detailsGeneviève ASSE, Lignes d'espace, 8/20, 2001€ 1,600.00 -
Colonnes, 3/25, 2004Aquatinte sur papier
Etching on paper66.5 x 50 cm
26 1/4 x 19 3/4 inView more detailsGeneviève ASSE, Colonnes, 3/25, 2004€ 1,500.00 -
Hiver, 12/25, 2004Aquatinte sur papier
Etching on paper66.5 x 50 cm
26 1/4 x 19 3/4 inView more detailsGeneviève ASSE, Hiver, 12/25, 2004€ 1,500.00 -
Architecture lumière, 15/20, 1999Aquatinte sur papier
Etching on paper66 x 49.5 cm
26 x 19 1/2 inView more detailsGeneviève ASSE, Architecture lumière, 15/20, 1999€ 1,500.00 -
Sans Titre I, 10/15, 2013Eau forte sur papier
Etching on paper45 x 33.2 cm
17 3/4 x 13 1/4 inView more detailsGeneviève ASSE, Sans Titre I, 10/15, 2013€ 1,100.00 -
Sans Titre II, 10/15, 2013Eau forte sur papier
Etching on paper45 x 33.2 cm
17 3/4 x 13 1/4 inView more detailsGeneviève ASSE, Sans Titre II, 10/15, 2013€ 1,100.00 -
Lumière verticale, EA 14/15, 1977Aquatinte sur papier
Etching on paper57 x 38 cm
22 1/2 x 15 inView more detailsGeneviève ASSE, Lumière verticale, EA 14/15, 1977€ 1,000.00 -
Narthex, 2/20, 1971Livre d'artiste
Gravure de Geneviève Asse / Texte Claude Esteban19.9 x 11.9 cmView more detailsGeneviève ASSE, Narthex, 2/20, 1971€ 700.00 -
Rhuys, 3/3, 1996Eau forte sur papier
Etching on paper32.5 x 50 cm
12 3/4 x 19 3/4 inView more detailsGeneviève ASSE, Rhuys, 3/3, 1996€ 500.00 -
Paysage intérieur, 2/12, 1993Eau forte sur papier
Etching on paper57 x 38 cm
22 1/2 x 15 inView more detailsGeneviève ASSE, Paysage intérieur, 2/12, 1993€ 500.00 -
Sans titre XXVII, 23/50, 1991Eau forte sur papier
Etching on paper46 x 33 cm
18 1/4 x 13 inView more detailsGeneviève ASSE, Sans titre XXVII, 23/50, 1991€ 500.00 -
Composition, 1/2, 1968Eau forte sur papier
Etching on paper25 x 32 cm
9 3/4 x 12 1/2 inView more detailsGeneviève ASSE, Composition, 1/2, 1968€ 500.00 -
Sans titre, 1990Crayons sur papier73 x 58.5 cm€ 12,000.00View more details
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Presqu'île, 14/25, 2004Aquatinte sur papier
Etching on paper66 x 50 cm
26 x 19 3/4 inView more detailsGeneviève ASSE, Presqu'île, 14/25, 2004€ 1,500.00 -
Diagonale, 1973Huile sur toile16 x 22 cm€ 12,000.00View more details
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Sans titre (Ligne rouge) - Ref AA229, 2009Huile sur toile60 x 90.5 cm€ 35,000.00View more details
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Parallèles - Ref AA249, 2008Huile sur toile97 x 162 cm€ 60,000.00View more details
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Ecriture I - Ref AA246, 2002Huile sur toile150 x 70 cmView more details
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Sans titre - Ref AA237, 2002Huile sur toile180 x 90 cm€ 60,000.00View more details
Portrait Geneviève Asse - INA, 2004
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Small Sizes 2021-2022
Group exhibition of the artists of the gallery 18 December 2021 - 19 February 2022 Gallery 38In December, each year the Oniris gallery hosts its traditional exhibition of small sizes and works on paper entitled this year TWELVE.21 - ONE.22.Read more
This presentation is an opportunity to (re)discover the thirty or so artists that the gallery defends all year round. It is also an opportunity to share a display of small format works and/or works on paper that are often never seen before on the gallery's walls. -
Oniris - 35 years
Special anniversary exhibition 12 June - 25 September 2021 Gallery 38, Gallery 42Opened in 1986, the Oniris Gallery is pleased to invite you to celebrate its 35th anniversary with an exhibition event during the summer of 2021.Read more
Whether it is a celebration or a family event, it is above all an opportunity to bring together the artists, collectors and enthusiasts who have followed the Oniris gallery project in its successive evolutions for over three decades. -
Geneviève Asse
Blue - solo exhibition 24 January - 11 April 2020 Gallery 38Through the use of a single colour: blue, synonymous with infinity and fullness. This colour has imposed itself on her. It is through it that in her painting Geneviève Asse approaches the theme of the opening allowing the light to infiltrate and allows the spectator's gaze to cross the canvas.Read more -
Geneviève ASSE
Paintings 23 September - 15 November 2014 Gallery 38New exhibition of the artist Geneviève Asse, born in Vannes. The Oniris gallery regularly presents her recent works: paintings and paintings on paper.Read more
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geneviève Asse - collections permanentes
Musée de la cohue - Vannes (56) 24 January 2020The second floor of the Musée de la Cohue in Vannes is dedicated to the presentation of Geneviève Asse's works, which allows the visitor to discover the important donation made by the artist to the museum. Geneviève Asse is an artist presented at the Oniris gallery since 1995, with paintings and drawings often exposed.Read more -
femmes années 50. Au fil de l'abstraction peinture et sculpture
Musée Soulage de Rodez (12) 14 December 2019Exposition des grandes dames de l'abstraction au musée Soulage de Rodez. Avec Aurelie Nemours et Geneviève Asse, deux peintres exposées à la galerie Oniris à Rennes.Read more