One of Mennessons’ first etched works was called "Je voudrais être un nuage" (I wish I were a cloud). Throughout his life as a painter and sculptor he shunned the static, which for him was synonymous with death, and instead sought movement, particularly movement towards light. For him, his work was about the search for profound order, as it is in life. He influenced his works just as they influenced him. He is gone but they remain, witnesses of peace and life.

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L’année de son exposition personnelle à Bâle est aussi la dernière où Mennessons exploite la combinaison des trois primaires dans toutes les dimensions et sur tous les supports : papier, toile, bois. De petit format, certaines des œuvres sont pensées pour être assemblées en triptyques, comme celle-ci. Au “Vers rouge...

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All representative artists of the post-World War II Abstraction are here in the spotlight, like César Dormela, Auguste Herbin, Félix Del Marle, who initiated the art festival Réalités nouvelles in 1946, as well as Mennessons, whose oil canvas Retour vers l’intérieur from the lyrical abstraction period is presented. The exhibition titled “Abstraction, création, art concret, art non figuratif, réalités nouvelles (1946-1965)” is recommended by the
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