Simone Boisecq passed away on August 6 at the age of 90.
She had been an AFP journalist before devoting herself to sculpture. In this regard, his encounter with another sculptor who was to become her husband, Karl-Jean Longuet, was decisive, as was his discovery a few years later of Brancusi’s studio.
The Unterlinden Museum in Colmar, known worldwide for preserving the Issenheim altarpiece, also has a remarkable collection of modern and contemporary art, including many works by Simone Boisecq and Karl-Jean Longuet. The Museum had also just devoted a beautiful retrospective to the two sculptors.
Simone Boisecq will remain throughout her life deeply marked by her love of the first arts, which her father had transmitted to her, but also by the landscapes of her Algerian childhood, by those of Brittany, and of course by its long proximity to surrealist painters and poets. Neither figurative nor purely abstract, his work appears as a subtle synthesis which, without being represented, nevertheless conceals a very powerful power of evocation.