Jean Dewasne

Jean Dewasne loves to play with the dynamism of lines and colours, as Stella demonstrates. The elements tend to organise themselves around a vertical axis that imposes a rhythm of reading akin to that of a clockwork mechanism: six blue axes draw the chaos of a few letters of the alphabet—L, O, b, N, T, P—into a white space. These letters lend a new visual meaning to the work. Colour also plays a vital role in the structure of the painting. It is colour that highlights the symbols and enables the underlying message to be decoded in black and white. Yet at the same time, it binds the letters together, obscuring their initial reading: when the T appears in blue, it is encircled by a black mass that unites it with the L. The work governs itself and appears to be constructed mathematically.

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