Genevi\u00e8ve Asse was born in Morbihan (Vannes) in 1923 to publisher parents. She moved to Paris in 1932 and enrolled at the Ecole Nationale Sup\u00e9rieure des Arts D\u00e9coratifs in 1940, but “never learned to paint”. She drew her inspiration from the atmosphere of her native Brittany, particularly the Rhuys peninsula, whose landscapes left a strong impression on her.
\nDuring the war, she took part in the fighting for the Liberation, enlisting in the FFI, then as an ambulance driver; she was awarded the Croix de Guerre. The painter Othon Friesz introduced her to the Echelle group in 1943, when she painted her first canvases. The following year, Asse took part in the “Salon des moins de trente ans”.
\nAfter the war, she returned to Paris and designed for the Bianchini-Ferrier, Flachard and Paquin fabric houses. There she met many writers and painters (Poliakoff, Nicolas de Sta\u00ebl, Beckett, etc.). Already, her art favoured light and colour, transparency, always seeking to translate her own relationship with the world, and she was already fond of rigorous, sober structures. For Genevi\u00e8ve Asse, blue, her favourite colour and the one that made her famous, is the colour of space. In 1954, her work came to the attention of the collector Jean Bauret, who organised the first exhibition of her work (Galerie Michel Warren, Paris). At the time, she was considered an abstract artist.
\nHer first retrospective exhibition was held in 1968 at the Mus\u00e9e des Beaux-Arts in Reims. She illustrated many writers (Y. Bonnefoy, Beckett, Fr\u00e9naud, Andr\u00e9 du Bouchet, Ponge, etc.). Alongside her painting, Genevi\u00e8ve Asse developed her graphic work, composing her engravings using drypoint and burin, with great economy of line. She worked in tapestry, stained glass (Saint-Di\u00e9 Cathedral, under the direction of Jean Bazaine) and S\u00e8vres porcelain, constantly opening up the range of her work. Over the years, he has exhibited in various galleries in France (La Hune, Claude Bernard, Marwan Hoss, etc.) and abroad, and his work can now be found in a number of museums (Rennes, Bron, Caen, Beaubourg, etc.).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":74215,"template":"","taxo_year_participe":[135],"class_list":["post-74214","artist","type-artist","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n