Charles Bézie

Since 1974, i use straight, horizontal and vertical lines and two diagonal lines. In the beginning, I wanted to distinguish my work from that of our great elders Malevith and Mondrian by means of eradicating the geometry by a web of fines. I call this my graphic period.
During the years that followed, my work passed through several phases where the line thickened becoming even a strip and resulted in a sign which i called the “Quadrille”.
In 1995, I abandoned oblique lines.
Since that date my work has become the research of rhythms obtained from numbers, irregular rhythms with “Gradations” where squares see their surface divided by strokes and regular rhythms with “Cadences” where rows of squares are only underlined on the top and bottom.
The year 2003 annonces the beginning of the “Suite Fibonacci”. This XIII century italian mathematician from whom we retain the recurrent series of numbers which constitute themselves by the simple addition of the two precedent numbers and also because the quotient between the two adjacent figures all approach the number 1.618, the famous “golden number”.
My actual project is to continue working from numbers for as long at it gives a sense to my pictorial conception.

Translation from French to English Maryann Mohr

Sérénité | 1979
Acryl auf Leinwand
35,5 x 27,5 cm
Galerie Lahumière, Paris

les trois primaires | 1982/84
Acryl auf Leinwand
146 x 97 cm
Sammlung Schroth, Soest

N°363 | 1986
Acryl auf Leinwand
61 x 38 cm
Galerie Lahumière, Paris

No 1541 | 2010
Acryl auf Leinwand
120 x 120 cm
Galerie Lahumière, Paris