Meditate with Geneviève Asse (1923-2021)

Blue everywhere. Or almost. A thin border, slightly dancing, reveals the paper. It reports a frame, the last mark before diving into blue. The first impression of monochromia is misleading. This disatuated blue, affixed to the canvas with brushes, passed and ironed like the incessant flow and reflux of the waves, reveals shades, bursts and shadows. Called “Blue ASSE” or “Assien Bleu”, he changes from one work to another, even if the painter Geneviève Asse has prepared her for years herself. Happing the look, he pushes the mind to escape.

It was not until the turn of the 1970s, after thirty years of artistic and pictorial practice, that the artist has let his interior color surge. Inexorably, its pigment has invaded paper and canvas, as the tide covers the sand. This blue has, little by little, swept away figurative representations in his works. Born in Vannes (Morbihan), in the south of Brittany, and having spent the first ten years of his life playing on the beaches of the Rhuys peninsula with Michel, his twin, the artist seems to grasp the mental landscape of his childhood: the meeting of the sky and the sea, both united, barely distinguished by the roller and the foam of a wave. In the distance, the horizon, this infinite luminous.