Marine Assoumov

painter and collagist

Oneiric abstractions

The “oneiric Abstractions” of Marine Assoumov give evidence of a beautiful practice of the acrylic painting.

We find in these paintings a freedom of execution, but with more fluid forms, a less structured composition, where geometry becomes mad, in a swirl where the eye does not always find a stabilization point.

A spectator poorly informed of Marine Assoumov late work could have thought that the series of the “oneiric Abstractions” was subsequent to her research on the square. An emblematic celebration of the delivery of the painter from the yoke and demanding discipline of the geometrical composition, an explosion of gaiety following the freedom found again

The vast range of colors, almost blazing, of these “oneiric abstractions” would not have they not been able to represent the remains projected in all directions by the volatilization or the implosion of the squares of the preceding series?

Such is not the case since the artist painted these “oneiric Abstractions” in 2002. Let us guarantee that this beautiful set of acrylics, from the triumphing practice over this medium, will have prepared Marine Assoumov for the forced austerity of the square.

Thierry Blanchon, 2004