French painter Marie-Thérèse Vacossin was born in 1929
She lives and works in Basel (Switzerland) and in Burgundy
She exhibits at the Oniris gallery since 2004
"Painting is for me, on a daily basis, a questioning [...]. I paint according to the tradition. It is a bias. No artifice comes to disturb the essential. The refusal of foreign means to painting limits me to the flat surface as support. Painting neither narrative, nor carrier of message. "
If the work of Marie-Thérèse Vacossin is initially based on logic and geometry, her colored paintings are linked above all 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 is 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 at the Oniris gallery, Rennes
2015: Clarté d'Ombre at the Oniris gallery, Rennes
2012: Chromatic palpitations, retrospective, Museum of Cambrai
2010: Geometry and Colors, museum of Sens and Linear Rhythm, Oniris Gallery, Rennes
2007 to 2016: Art Paris at the Grand-Palais, Oniris stand
2006: Horizontal Vertical Only, Pontoise Museum
2005: solo exhibition at the Oniris Gallery, Rennes
2004: FIAC Paris, Oniris stand (with Nemours and Molnar)
1978 : Creation of the Fanal workshop in Basel, Switzerland
1964 : Salon de la Jeune Sculpture
1955 : Salon des Réalités Nouvelles
1947-56: Studies at the School of Decorative Arts and the Louvre School in Paris
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Ombre et lumière, 2019More
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Carrousel, 2014More
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Imuli 1, 2022More
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Itinéraire de silence (set of 6), 2019More
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Poncy Aa1, 2019More
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Sunodia 1 II, 1995More
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Onaga Aa1, 2018More
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Ogonc Ba8, 2013More
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Blanche, 2006More
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Onaga Ac1, 2019More
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Enaili Aa3, 2019More
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Conversation, 2019More
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Orsanà Db1, 2010More
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Transparence, 2012More
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Vert'icale, 2007MoreMarie-Thérèse VACOSSIN, Vert'icale, 2007€ 3,000.00
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Verticales pourprées, 2008MoreMarie-Thérèse VACOSSIN, Verticales pourprées, 2008€ 3,000.00
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Anthé, 2019More
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Sator - b, 2018More
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Vivien, 2017More
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2 verticales + 2 horizontales, 2018More
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Banqio Ab3, 2010More
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Icara 1 , 2018More
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Jeux à trois, 2011More
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Ogonc Ba9, 2013More
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Sator, 2007More
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Sator, 2007More
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Spita , 2019More
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2H, 2018Marie-Thérèse VACOSSIN, 2H, 2018€ 1,300.00
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Capucine, 2017Marie-Thérèse VACOSSIN, Capucine, 2017€ 600.00
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Kamarès, 2017Marie-Thérèse VACOSSIN, Kamarès, 2017€ 1,900.00
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Lilas, 2017Marie-Thérèse VACOSSIN, Lilas, 2017€ 600.00
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Soufre, 2017Marie-Thérèse VACOSSIN, Soufre, 2017€ 600.00
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Véronèse, 2017Marie-Thérèse VACOSSIN, Véronèse, 2017€ 600.00
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Azus, 2015Marie-Thérèse VACOSSIN, Azus, 2015€ 2,200.00
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Cumbleu, 2014Marie-Thérèse VACOSSIN, Cumbleu, 2014€ 950.00
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Espaces lignes, 2014Marie-Thérèse VACOSSIN, Espaces lignes, 2014€ 1,700.00
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Face à face, 2014Marie-Thérèse VACOSSIN, Face à face, 2014€ 780.00
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Jeux d'ombres, 2014Marie-Thérèse VACOSSIN, Jeux d'ombres, 2014€ 980.00
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L'acidulé, 2014Marie-Thérèse VACOSSIN, L'acidulé, 2014€ 680.00
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Pastis, 2014Marie-Thérèse VACOSSIN, Pastis, 2014€ 950.00
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Kazuo, 2013Marie-Thérèse VACOSSIN, Kazuo, 2013€ 450.00
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2012Marie-Thérèse VACOSSIN, 2012€ 35.00
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Aubres I , 2012Marie-Thérèse VACOSSIN, Aubres I , 2012€ 650.00
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Aubres II, 2012Marie-Thérèse VACOSSIN, Aubres II, 2012€ 650.00
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Aubres III, 2012Marie-Thérèse VACOSSIN, Aubres III, 2012€ 650.00
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Kazuo, 2006Marie-Thérèse VACOSSIN, Kazuo, 2006€ 750.00
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Zeff, 2005Marie-Thérèse VACOSSIN, Zeff, 2005€ 500.00
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Petit théâtre, 2000Marie-Thérèse VACOSSIN, Petit théâtre, 2000€ 700.00
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Cytelle II, 1998Marie-Thérèse VACOSSIN, Cytelle II, 1998€ 450.00
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Cytelle III, 1998Marie-Thérèse VACOSSIN, Cytelle III, 1998€ 450.00
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Cytelle V, 1998Marie-Thérèse VACOSSIN, Cytelle V, 1998€ 450.00
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Mer millimétrée 1, 1981Marie-Thérèse VACOSSIN, Mer millimétrée 1, 1981€ 540.00
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Mer millimétrée 2 , 1981Marie-Thérèse VACOSSIN, Mer millimétrée 2 , 1981€ 540.00
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Mer millimétrée 2 , 1981Marie-Thérèse VACOSSIN, Mer millimétrée 2 , 1981€ 540.00
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Mer millimétrée 3 , 1981Marie-Thérèse VACOSSIN, Mer millimétrée 3 , 1981€ 540.00
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Eléments constitutifs 1 , 1980Marie-Thérèse VACOSSIN, Eléments constitutifs 1 , 1980€ 220.00
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Eléments constitutifs 3 , 1980Marie-Thérèse VACOSSIN, Eléments constitutifs 3 , 1980€ 220.00
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Echo bleu, 1979Marie-Thérèse VACOSSIN, Echo bleu, 1979€ 220.00
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Intention blanche, 1979Marie-Thérèse VACOSSIN, Intention blanche, 1979€ 220.00
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Opale - 1 , 1979Marie-Thérèse VACOSSIN, Opale - 1 , 1979€ 220.00
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Langage de grilleMarie-Thérèse VACOSSIN, Langage de grille€ 430.00
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