Claude Viseux

Claude Viseux is a painter and French sculptor born in 1927 with Champagne-on-Oise.

1946 3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure of the Art schools of PARIS
the first 1950 gestural paintings.
1952 First personal exposure to the Vibaud gallery in Paris.
1953 instrumental Paintings starting from tools of chance: coated rubber bands of color, tended and released on the fabric, whose trace becomes the act to paint.
the 1959-1960 sculpture replaces painting.
1967-1970 " structures actives" out of stainless steel proceed of the industrial production of series. They are divided into combinative families of forms composed by addition, subtraction, multiplication, division.
1972 It is interested in the concept of balance unstable. It also took part in the design and the realization of decorations and costumes of ballets. One finds his stainless sculptures in many public places.
1975 to 1992 Professor, foreman of sculpture to the E.N.S.B.A. of Paris

Claude Viseux is exposed today in several museums, so much in France (museum of Modern art of Paris, Marseilles, Dunkirk, Mount-of-Marsan) that abroad (Algeria, Belgium, India, Poland, Mexico, the United States, the Canaries.

Since 1962, it received five prices of sculptures of which the price Anton Pevsner.

“All my materials and structures are out of stainless steel: one can see vertical structures which are like emblems, like totems, and which have the characteristic to be hollow bodies, tubular, with tops from which leave the heaps of things - shell, sword, hand - as a tree could germinate and offer in its top a surprise if it is decapitated. It there also of the unstable structures on the ground, linear, that I call of the tensors, because they are like traps made to take space. ” Claude Viseux

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