Claire-Jeanne Jézequel

The work

Sketch 1
2009
26 x 270 x 133 cm
Graphite and wax on plasterboard and metal rails

The work consists of a prefabricated panel of the kind used to make false partitions and ceilings, lying abandoned and forgotten on the floor on a pair of metal guides or rails that should serve to hold it in place.
But we can go a step further. If we disregard the type of material and focus solely on the form, it is a rectangle partially covered by a black stain, on top of two large straight lines, the metal guides; that is, an abstract geometric sculpture with constructivist resonances. A version of a three-dimensional “constructed” abstract painting.

L’autora

(1965, Fontenay-aux-Roses, Island of France)

Jézéquel was born in 1965, the same year that Jacques Villeglé created the oldest work in this collection. He therefore belongs to an artistic generation that, since the 1960s, has succeeded in establishing the conviction that any object is available to artists to be presented to the viewer for poetic and artistic reflection.
Jézéquel has stated: “Abstract art has often been criticized, somewhat naively, for being outside the world. On the contrary, by affirming the possibility of another way of existing, it is outside labels or sociological identifications or assignments, as art inscribes its relationship with the concrete world.”
His works from this period, made with simple materials from the same world in which the viewer lives, occupy part of their space just like any other object in the real world.