Biography
Maurice Blaussyld
Born 1960 Calais, France.
Lives and works Roubaix, France.
Through the union of form and philosophy, the work of Maurice Blaussyld seeks to explore through art that which is beyond it. It seeks to conquer the concept of perfection, one which rejects any absolute end and unfolds in a continuous and wandering style, submitting itself to the potentialities of both chance and error. Often exploring themes such as absence, repetition, death, and the divine, his works are elusive and divulge little of their conceptual weight in their material translations. With successive creation dates and very often sans titre, the works of Blaussyld do not respect any simple notion of chronology or material containment. They are not revisited and reworked, rather they are constantly materialising and dematerialising and may be said to be in a perpetual process of becoming and unbecoming, without beginning or end.
The spatial and temporal coordinates that appear to exist within and between Blaussyld’s works are illusory. The perceived physical space and temporal lapse between discrete objects or iterations speak to the double regime of both unique singularity and infinite multiplicity at play across the artist’s ever-emerging oeuvre.(1) Whether his sans titre works are expressed through okoume or oak sculptural forms, sonic installation, ink gridded paper, granite, text, or even autopsy photographs, these specific and powerfully simple materials return again and again, cut and recontextualised. They emerge as the apparition of the image, the evidence and trace of its existence.
Maurice Blaussyld was born in 1960 in Calais and currently lives and works in Roubaix, France. The artist will participate in the upcoming exhibition, ‘Incorporated!’, as part of Les ateliers de Rennes - Biennale d’art contemporain, in September 2016 in Rennes, France. Other recent solo showings by the artist include ‘Maurice Blaussyld’, Galerie Allen, Paris (2016); ‘Maurice Blaussyld, A Tale of a Tub’, Rotterdam (2015); ‘Maurice Blaussyld’, lls 387, Antwerp (2013); ‘Livret V’, Musée de Rochechouart (2010); ‘Maurice Blaussyld’, Centre d'Arts plastiques et visuels de Lille (2010). Recent group exhibitions include ‘Demain dans la bataille pense à moi’, Institut d'Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne (2015-16); ‘After Dark’, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain (MAMCO), Geneva (2015); ‘La Mer, Salut d'Honneur Jan Hoet’, Mu.ZEE, Ostend (2014); ‘Varying Degrees of Ajarness’, Ellen De Bruyne project space, Amsterdam (2013); ‘Le silence, une fiction’, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco (2012). In 2013, Blaussyld was the recipient of the Bernd Lohaus Prize in Antwerp, Belgium, and his works are held in various public collections including FRAC Ile-de-france, Paris, FRAC Acquitaine, Bordeaux, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (SMAK), Gent; Centre d’Innovation et de Design au Grand Hornu, Hornu; and Fonds Nationales d’Art Contemporain (FNAC).
(1) Hélène Meisel (2012). “Maurice Blaussyld: Du Détachement”, 20/27, 6, pp.183-205
