C A T A L O G U E

EXHIBITION

MARTHE WERY

Marthe Wéry is a Belgian painter, ( 1930 - 2005 ). Throughout her life, she strove to push the limits of painting, to renew herself without stopping, moving from geometric studies to minimalism, from monochromes to radical painting. She presents her works in an unconventional way, paying great attention to the architecture of the place and to the light.

Born in Etterbeek in 1930, Marthe Wéry learned art as an autodidact, visiting museums and galleries a lot, while attending artistic circles. She only studied one year, as a free auditor, (1952) in Paris at the Grande Chaumière , a private art school, where she notably practiced drawing nudes.

Back in Brussels, she worked regularly at the Atelier de Woluwé-Saint-Lambert , initiated by the Belgian expressionist sculptor Oscar Jespers . This has made his house an artistic center where many artists meet to work, exhibit their works and exchange.

In 1966, Marthe Wery entered Atelier 17 with Stanley William Hayter to train in printmaking . She practices etching and aquatint .

As soon as she settled in Maquenoise, in Hainaut, she moved away from figurative art to turn to abstraction, with an overlap of colored surfaces that characterizes her. She will specify later: “What characterizes my evolution is the progressive decomposition of form. One could not say a bursting of the form, because that would make one think of a savage bursting. It is much more of a deconstruction operation in order to find a more fundamental structure.

Very quickly, she produced abstract works in which monochrome and repetition dominate in the form of checkerboards and lined wefts. She rigorously exploited all the possibilities of the surface and the color sought in turn for its opacity or for its transparency. Gladly seduced by the series, in painting as in engraving, she knew how to exploit the monumental aspect by vast compositions modulating the space.

(WIKIPEDIA)

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THE EXHIBITION TOOK PLACE:

HAAGS GEMEENTEMUSEUM

THE HAGUE

16 NOVEMBER 1986 - 15 JANUARY1987

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COLOPHON:

RESPONSABLES:

ENNO DEVELING

RUDI FUCHS

CRÉDITS PHOTOGRAPHIQUES:

PHILIPPE DE GOBERT, BRUXELLES

MUSÉE D'ART CONTEMPORAIN DE MONTRÉAL

CH. SZWAJCER

THE PUBLISHER:

EDITIONS LEBEER HOSSMANN

SIZED:

CENTIMETERS: 21 X 29,5

PAGES: 156

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CONDITION

GENERAL:

REASONABLE TO GOOD

COVER:

LIGHTLY RUBBED, CORNERS AND EDGES LIGHTLY BUMPED WITH TINY DAMAGES

SPINE:

IDEM

PAGES: 

HARDLY TO NO SIGNS OF USAGE

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