Jean Rets (1910-1998) patiently created a world of signs, shapes and colours that echoed his temperament and sensitivity. The exhibition at the Marthe Donas Museum presents a rich overview of the artist's pictorial work, linked to a dimension of unprecedented breadth in his work, that of integrations with the environment. The exhibition at the Marthe Donas Museum presents a rich overview of the artist's pictorial work, linked to an unprecedented dimension of his work, that of integrations into architecture and urban space. Jean Rets showed an early taste for purely plastic research. At the turn of the 1940s and 1950s, he found in the geometric non-figurative trend a mode of expression that suited his temperament. Over the years, Jean Rets constantly enriched and extended his repertoire of plastic signs, which he mixed into inventive compositions. These compositions, at first abundant, are gradually stripped down, while a nuanced palette of colours emerges.
Photo: geometric composition, n.d., gouache on cardboard, 63 x 50 cm, Verhulst Collection, © Marco Lavand'homme
Marthe Donas Museum (MIMDo), Rue de la Montagne, 36 1460 Ittre Marthe Donas Museum (MIMDo)Jean Rets (1910-1998) patiently created a world of signs, shapes and colours that echoed his temperament and sensitivity. The exhibition at the Marthe Donas Museum presents a rich overview of the artist’s pictorial work, linked to a dimension of unprecedented breadth in his work, that of integrations with the environment.
The exhibition at the Marthe Donas Museum presents a rich overview of the artist’s pictorial work, linked to an unprecedented dimension of his work, that of integrations into architecture and urban space.
Jean Rets showed an early taste for purely plastic research. At the turn of the 1940s and 1950s, he found in the geometric non-figurative trend a mode of expression that suited his temperament. Over the years, Jean Rets constantly enriched and extended his repertoire of plastic signs, which he mixed into inventive compositions. These compositions, at first abundant, are gradually stripped down, while a nuanced palette of colours emerges.
Photo: geometric composition, n.d., gouache on cardboard, 63 x 50 cm, Verhulst Collection, © Marco Lavand’homme
