Youri Messen-Jaschin

Youri Messen-Jaschin^[1] is an artist of Latvian origin, born in Arosa, Switzerland, in 1941. He often combines oils and gouaches. His favourite colors are: strong reds, yellows, greens, and blue. He also works in body painting,^[2] exhibiting his works in nightclubs.

He created three stamps in optical art for Swiss Post, in 2010.,^[3]^[4]

Biography

Between 1958 and 1962 Youri Messen-Jaschin studied Fine art at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (student of Robert Cami) and History of art at the École pratique des hautes études (student of Pierre Francastel), both in Paris.

Between 1962 and 1965, he attended the École cantonale d'art de Lausanne.

He worked with engraver and painter Ernest Pizzotti.^[5] He exposed his kinetic glass and acrylic sculptures in Lausanne in 1964. He worked two years at the Center of Contemporary Engraving in Geneva and then in Zürich,^[6] where he collaborated with the painter Friederich Kuhn.^[7]

Between 1968 and 1970, he studied at the School of Design and Crafts in Göteborg, where he researched textile kinetic objects. There, through his discussions with artists Jesús Rafael Soto, Carlos Cruz-Diez and Julio Le Parc, he became increasingly interested in by Op art and decided to devote all his research to Kinetic art. He started to increasingly integrate movement and geometric shapes in his textiles and oil paintings.

In 1968, he received the first prize for Swiss contemporary engraving art as well as a scholarship from the Swedish government. In 1970, he worked in Hamburg, collaborating with North German artists on monumental projects, and created a kinetic sculpture for Gould in Eichstetten, Germany.

Youri Messen-Jaschin traveled in South America, where he was able to discuss architecture – which plays an important role in his work – and its relations to his own research on movement with architects and artists like Oscar Niemeyer and Roberto Burle Marx in Rio de Janeiro, Ruy Ohtake in São Paulo, and Clorindo Testa in Buenos Aires. In 1984 in Caracas, he staged theatre and choreography of his own works at the Ateneo, the Eugenio Mendoza Foundation, the Asociación Cultural Humboldt (Goethe-Institut), and at the Alliance française.

After a stay of several months in New York, he returned to Switzerland in 1971, where he took up residence in Bern, where he lived for eleven years. During his stay, he frequently exhibited at the Kunsthalle and other local museums. He currently lives in Lausanne, Switzerland.

He participated in many international exhibitions. His works are in private collections, in national and international museums.

Gallery

Exhibitions

2013 Youri Messen-Jaschin: Op Art, Galerie du Château, Renens, Switzerland
2018 POPA Museum | Exhibition Youri Messen-Jaschin Op Art | April 20-May 21 | Porrentruy, Switzerland
2019 Youri Messen-Jaschin | Galerie du Château, Renens, Switzerland | March 15-April 7, 2019

Books and magazines

2000 Premio Internazionale di scultura "Terzo millenio" Terra Moretti Editor Fiorenza Mursia/Milan/Italy
2016 Guide Contemporain, volume III, p. 138 | Published by the Fondation Lémanique pour l'Art Contemporain
2022 Youri Messen-Jaschin, an artist who plays with your brain, Swiss Review, The magazine for the Swiss Abroad, p. 10-11.

Awards

USA Award Artavita | 30th international Art Contest | Certificate of excellence | 2019
USA | Artist of the year award | Award for Wormhole (screen printing) | Foundation for the Art | 2019
USA | Art Room Contemporary Online Gallery | Merit Award for Excellent Artwork | Feb. 2019

Encyclopedic

1987 to 1992 Who's and Who international art
1981 Institut Suisse pour l'étude de l'art, Dictionnaire des artistes suisses contemporains (Swiss institute for the study of art, Dictionary of the contemporary Swiss artists)
1970–1980, 1980–1990, 1990–2000 Editor Huber Frauenfeld-Stuttgart/Switzerland/Germany
1999 Dictionnaire biographique de l'art Suisse, Répertoire des artistes suisses/ Institut suisse pour l'étude de l'art Zurich & Lausanne (Biographical dictionary of Swiss art, Repertory of the Swiss artists/Swiss Institute for the study of art Zurich & Lausanne) Editor Neue Zürcher Zeitung/Zurich/Switzerland
1990–2008 QUID Editor Robert Laffont Paris/France
2008 Visarte Vaud – 152 creative personalities | Editor League of visual artists and architects Lausanne Switzerland.

Theater

1982 «PSICOTRONICÓ» Caracas; ([1]);
1983 «AH! AH! BARROCO» Caracas
1983 «LA TORTA QUE CAMINA» Caracas; ([2]); ([3]) ;
1964 «EMBRYO» Caracas; ([4]);

References

^ "Mueller Science - Ausländer in der Schweiz - famous foreigners in Switzerland". Muellerscience.com. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
^ "Youri Messen-Jaschin Bodypainting on Absolutearts". Absolutearts.com. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
^ "Focus of stamps". Issuu.com. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
^ Robin Wilson (July 2012). "Recent Mathematical Stamps 2010" (PDF). The Mathematical Intelligencer. 34 (2): 78. doi:10.1007/s00283-012-9284-1. Optical Art
^ "Ernest Pizzotti". Studiopizz.ch. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
^ Messen-Jaschin, Youri (21 April 2017). "switzerland - xylography - woodcut - by youri messen-jaschin - 1958 – 1978 -". Yourimessenjaschinbibliography.wordpress.com. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
^ "Friedrich Kuhn (1926-1972)". Press.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 14 February 2019.

External links

[1] "Mueller Science - Ausländer in der Schweiz - famous foreigners in Switzerland". Muellerscience.com. Retrieved 14 February 2019.

[2] "Youri Messen-Jaschin Bodypainting on Absolutearts". Absolutearts.com. Retrieved 14 February 2019.

[3] "Focus of stamps". Issuu.com. Retrieved 14 February 2019.

[4] Robin Wilson (July 2012). "Recent Mathematical Stamps 2010" (PDF). The Mathematical Intelligencer. 34 (2): 78. doi:10.1007/s00283-012-9284-1. Optical Art

[5] "Ernest Pizzotti". Studiopizz.ch. Retrieved 14 February 2019.

[6] Messen-Jaschin, Youri (21 April 2017). "switzerland - xylography - woodcut - by youri messen-jaschin - 1958 – 1978 -". Yourimessenjaschinbibliography.wordpress.com. Retrieved 14 February 2019.

[7] "Friedrich Kuhn (1926-1972)". Press.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 14 February 2019.

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