Made in japan martial raysse biography

For six decades, and at the center of various postwar movements, Martial Raysse has explored the allure of artifice, façade, and consumerism through rigorous and often humorous experimentation with media and form.

Born in 1936 in Vallauris, France, Raysse studied literature at the University of Nice and attended the city’s School of Decorative Arts. In Paris in 1960, alongside Arman and Yves Klein, he became one of the nine signers of the Nouveau Réalisme manifesto.

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Making assemblages of everyday commercial objects, Raysse developed his concept of “Vision Hygiene,” wherein his output was meant to possess “the serene self-evidence of mass-produced refrigerators.” He spent the 1960s in New York with the Beat milieu and in Los Angeles, experimenting with film and incorporating neon into his paintings (High Voltage, 1965).

His aesthetic turned to Pop’s engagement with appropriation, excess, and surface. The series Made in Japan (1963–65), including his seminal La Grande Odalisque