The work of Reussner is about a synthesis between both facets of the same artist: the painter, who was formed at the age of twenty years old in the André Lhote’s and Fernand Léger’s studios and made its first personal exhibition in Geneva and in Lausanne in the sixties; and the sculptor who took over the foundry of his father in 1961 and worked during twenty years for numerous artists worldwide.
In the 1960s, we see the emergence of what will become the bases, the fundamental principles of his work. His style has evolved towards more abstraction. His landscapes are marked by geometric, pure lines, and his canvases are covered with matter. «I have tried to integrate all my experience as a sculptor into my paintings. I remain above all a sculptor who works in space». - Jean-Claude Reussner, 2016
This desire to play with light, to shape it by opposing matt and shiny to release its energy will mark his pictorial work through the «Ka-Rê» series. J-C Reussner will never stop experimenting with new artistic proposals.
