Youri Messen-Jaschin

Youri Messen - Yashin ( born January 27, 1941 in Arosa, Switzerland ) is a Latvian artists.

Life

Measuring Yashin attended the National Art School in Paris, one of his teachers there was Robert Cami (1900-1973), and the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes at the Sorbonne, where he studied art history at Pierre Francastel.

From 1962 to 1965 he attended the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Lausanne. There he worked with the engraver and painter Ernest Pizotti. In 1964 he took part with kinetic glass and acrylic sculptures at the Expo 64 in Lausanne and worked for two years at the " Centre de la gravure contemporaine " in Geneva. Later he lived in Zurich and extended by the painter Friedrich Kuhn (1926-1972) his painting skills.

From 1968 to 1970 he studied at the högskolan för Design och Konsthantverk ( HDK ) in Gothenburg, where he experimented with kinetic textile objects. By dealing with works by Jesús Rafael Soto, Carlos Cruz Diez, Julio Le Parc, he discovered his interest in the Op Art and kinetic art. In Gothenburg, he had the opportunity to exercise and geometric shapes in its textiles and oil paintings to integrate. In the 1970s he lived in Hamburg, where he worked on several major projects, together with the North German artists. 1970 designed the tapestry "More Light", his only work in pop -art style, which he produced in his studio in Switzerland Zollikofen.

From 1970 to 1981, he settled in Bern. Architecture and the study of the movement in architectural space, as well as Op Art and Kinetic Art played a major role in his paintings and sculptures. During a stay in Caracas his works have been performed at the Ateneo de Caracas and the VI Festival internacional de Teatro. Since 2000, Measure - Yashin also has the body-art face. 2010 published a series of stamps by Swiss Post, which show three op-art motifs of the artist.

His works are in museums and private collections. He lives and works in Lausanne.

Writings

• With Luce Wilquin: Le Monde des Forain - The world of showmen, Editions des Trois Continents, Lausanne, 1986, ISBN 2-88001-195-7