Martial
Raysse
Verte, 1963
32 x 22,5 cm (archives)
Raysseland, 1965
195 x 130 x 2 cm (archives)
Ulysse why do you come so late poor fool, 1966
150 x 390 cm (archives)
Pamela Beach, 1963
36 x 33 x 15 cm
A propos de New York en Peinturama, 1965
35 3/8 by 51 1/8 in.
La belle noire, 1967
(archives)
Au monde (série du Graal), 1983
80 x 120 cm
Colonne au cosmonaute, 1960
24 3/4 by 16 7/8 in. (archives)
Bel Eté Concentré, 1967
Edition de 80 ex.
185 x48.50 cm
Exemplaire N° 62/80
Martial Raysse
Martial Raysse, born in Golfe Juan the 17th of February 1936, is a french plastic artist. He lives and works in Issigeac.
Son of Vallauris' ceramists, Raysse began to paint and write at the age of 12. After serious studies and an intensive practice of athletics, he decided to dedicate himself to painting at the age of 19. First, Raysse realized assemblies of detritus and diverse objects, presented in plexiglas boxes. In a few years, he became one of the most famoust abstract painters of the Riviera and knew an increasing success.
Fascinated by the rough beauty of plastic, Raysse developed his "vision's hygiene" concept, by using new objects made of plastic, belonging to the new consumption society.
During a stay in the United States, Raysse became closer to Pop art and belonged, since its creation in 1960, to the New Realists movement.
The aesthetic that he developed since 1972 is completly different from his Pop works of his last period. Raysse notably dedicated himself to drawing, and renewed with traditional painting and sculpture in the 1970s-1980s.
Raysse's work uses diverse materials and techniques: plastic, plexiglas, cardboard, paper, fabric, paint, mirror, artificial lights, objects, photographs, photocopies, assembly, enlargment, neon, for which he said: "I discovered neon light. It is the living color, a color beyond color".
Publications
Martial Raysse
- Martial Raysse
Galerie Natalie Seroussi
