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A square stainless steel coffee table top with stainless steel mosaic inset resting on a stainless steel base by Jean Claude Dresse, Belgium C.1970's
Signed "Dresse"
Jean-Claude Dresse was born in Charleroi on 8th September 1946. He studied at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Charleroi where he mainly worked with Marcel Gibon. In 1985, he held his first personal exhibition in Brussels. Since then, he has regularly been exhibiting in Belgium, in France and in the Netherlands. In 1990, he made, for the Belgian State, a 90 m2 monumental fresco in the entrance hall of the new administrative area of the city of Charleroi.
Jean-Claude Dresse is one of the few artists who, relying on the great examples of the past, was able to revisit and recalibrate them according to his personal vision. He creates this way an emotion that brings back to the obscure sources of our affectivity which he enriches thanks to the contribution of a carefully designed production and of secret colours and harmonies in order to make us enjoy some kind of mystery. Served by the powers of his experience and of an exceptional technique, he manages to adorn convention with all the attractions of imagination and reaches an unusual symbolism of a very particular seduction. It's not by chance that Jean-Claude Dresse's paintings have the combined charms of a disrupted realism and of a poetical escape, they are moreover admirably served by a “capacity of making” which impresses, all the more so that he is never overburdened with this “know-how” of which the hyperrealists are nostalgic. His work is a “global harmony” which he formulates with his own means: the poetical or symbolical meaning of the painting holds the artist as much as its own plastic splendor. For him, image and color have to be brought to a certain degree of “necessary richness”..
Jean-Claude DRESSE, born on 8th September 1946, comes from a family of born artists. During four years, at the Académie des Beaux-Arts de Charleroi, Jean-Claude followed the drawing class given by Marcel Gibon.
At the same time, starting to learn arts and crafts with his father, he will collaborate during twenty years on the creation and realization of contemporary art furniture; following materials will be used: steel, bronze, semiprecious stones.
This job requiring a perfect knowledge of drawing will help him greatly. We often forget that drawing makes part of many creations like for example the wide field of cars, fashion, advertising, jewelry.
Jean-Claude DRESSE's visionary outpourings often push him, for his sole pleasure, to realize a drawing of architectural compositions setting Utopian constructions, empty of all human presence. His main arts and crafts activity made it possible for him to prop up his drawing and above all to earn his living.
At the beginning, this economic independence brought him a great freedom: that of not having to count only on drawing, a very important artistic practice but which will only be the primordial support in his career as a painter.
His father Marcel, coming to retiring age and the arts and crafts job becoming too difficult to manage by only one person, « his secret garden» will become his main work ; a transition which will take three more years, during which he will develop his future technique with linseed oil, that of glazes (successive paint layers giving a transparency aspect to the painting). This technique will be, for him, the best way to give the expected effect to his compositions where the surfaces of light will contrast with the shadow outpourings.
So, his painting, often described as imaginary realism, to the detriment of a present-day art where the notion of 'beautiful', of technical quality is often mentioned as a handicap, even a major fault, positions itself outside the fashions, he favors a timeless art towards collectors anxious to hang, in their interior, paintings which provide emotions, dream, give rise to interrogations without great speculative perspectives. The affirmation these days of plastic decisions which draw their roots in a traditional heritage and a respect for the job, underlines a sturdy character which doesn't let itself seduce by the changing esthetical atmospheres of the moment. Succinctly, here is the course of a present-day painter for whom the artistic adventure continues, with in the near future, the preparation, for 2010, of an exhibition, in Paris at the prestigious Taylor foundation.
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Creator
Jean Claude Dresse (Designer)
Place of Origin
Belgium
Date of Manufacture
1970's
Period
20th Century
Materials and Techniques
Stainless Steel
Condition
Excellent Condition.
Dimensions
12.75 in.Hx39.5 in.Wx39.5 in.D
32 cmHx100 cmWx100 cmD
Dealer Location
New York, NY
Number of Items
1
Reference Number
U12070878361685
