Artworks in the collection:
Construction P4A-2018, 65 x 50 x 6 cm
Construction P4B-2018, 65 x 50 x 6 cm

© Jean Charasse

© Jean Charasse
Jean Charasse was born in Lapalisse, France, in 1941. His studies lead him to work in the building industry.
Self-taught, he started painting at the age of fifteen and began exhibiting in 1977. From 1990 he abandons figurative painting for Constructions in which the influence of Morandi appears in filigree; he uses all kinds of recycled materials, wood, rusty irons and fabrics; this will be his “Signaux et Balises” period.
At the Alexandre de la Salle Gallery in Saint-Paul de Vence, he discovered the work of Aurélie Nemours and met Carmelo Arden Quin (founder of the MADI Movement in 1946); a path was set for his work, that of Constructed Art.
In 2004, he became a member of the MADI Movement, simplifying his constructions and gradually abandoning the use of recycled materials in favour of wooden compositions made up of parallelepipedal elements that fit together and overlap.
In his last works, in order to favour and “soften” even more the passage from one plane to another, he covers with a fabric geometric elements in wood, which are previously fixed on a background, then he interposes between these elements and on the fabric, other geometric elements that allow to maintain the architecture of the whole.
After several layers of medium and depending on the lighting, the Construction, reveals itself in a deal between the hidden and the apparent.
Short biography:
Born in Lapalisse, France, in 1941
Starts painting at the age of fifteen
From 1977 he shows his artworks in exhibitions
From 1990 he abandons figurative painting for Constructions
In 2004, he became a member of the MADI Movement