Youri Messen-Jaschin is an artist of Latvian origin, he was born in Arosa-Switzerland.
His artistic studies brought him to the “Ecole Supérieur Nationale des Beaux-Arts”. He was a pupil of professor and master Robert Cami and also attended the Hautes Études of the Sorbonne University, which included, History of Art, with professor Pierre Francastel from the Ecole Pratique, in Paris.
From 1962 to 1965 he returned to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Lausanne, where he worked with the engraver and painter Ernest Pizzotti. He debuted his creations at the Lausanne EXPO, in 1964 (Swiss fair), where he presented his kinetic sculptures of glass and acrylic resin.
Youri was searching for new forms of art. He worked two years in “The Center of Contemporary Engraving” in Geneva. But it was in Zurich that he expanded his pictorial perspective with the experience of the circle above the face, influenced by the Swiss painter Friederick Kuhn.
From 1968 to 1970, he studied at the University of Högskolan for design & Konsthantwerk of Gothenburg, where he made kinetic objects of textiles. In 1967, he met Jesús-Rafaël Soto, Carlos Cruz-Diez and Julio Le Parc during an ...
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No Title, 1976
Tapestry Weaving,
73 x 94 X 3 cm
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Broadway, 1979
Tapestry Weaving,
56.5 x 52 X 15.1 cm
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Square, 2013
Serigraph,
88 x 102 X 0.2 cm
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| US$ 4150 |
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SPIRAL, 2012
Oil Painting,
179 x 179 X 16.3 cm
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| US$ 28300 |
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SPIRAL , 2012
Oil Painting,
179 x 179 X 16.3 cm
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| US$ 28300 |
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no Title, 2012
Oil Painting,
160 x 160 X 8 cm
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