This singular figure of the world of art, with an extraordinary energy and look, highlighted the pointed French pictorial scene and that of the Eastern countries. It died on December 27, at the age of 73.
by Roxana Azimi
We could have believed it eternal, the sacred fire of Suzanne Tarasiève, furiously in love with life, swirling, endearing and, until the end, generous. This gully, buttland gallery owner like an arletty, a smile in addition, revamped in tight vinyl, panther coat and rock’n’roll boots, continued to change, tireless, despite the cancer that gnawed at it. This great lady dignified, always worthy, Tuesday, December 27 in Paris, at the age of 73.
With her father, radioelectrician, and his mother, seamstress, Suzanne Tarasiève grows in Berry and discovers Munch, Bosch and Kirchner at school. A first click for a life she will write with temperament. In Barbizon (Seine-et-Marne), a bourgeois cradle of landscape painting, she opened her shop in 1978 to sell the avant-garde. With the same taste for adventure, this frail blonde leaves the Fontainebleau forest in 2003, driven by French collector Marcel Brient, and gets involved in Paris in the experience of a 13
If she defends, always with fervor, the artists of the French pictorial scene like Youcef Korichi and Romain Bernini, she also propels the sculptor Eva Jospin, who works the cardboard, or the virtuoso of graphite Jean Bedez. But always his eye turns east: towards Germany, with A. R. Penck, Jörg Reregnff and Sigmar Polke; towards Ukraine, its roots. His sincerity will be his best weapon to attract the good graces of the great artists. His loyalty will do the rest. She succeeded in convincing Georg Baselitz, who was already a star, to exhibit in Barbizon. She will then exhibit it in Paris, even though he is represented by the powerful gallery owner Thaddaeus Ropac.
of the audacity and no blandness
In 2000, she stopped in Düsseldorf, Germany, in front of the disturbing work of photographer Boris Mikhaïlov, whom she will have since ceased during the exhibition. “I had a kind of hot puff when I saw her photos, she said, in December, in Vanity Fair. I did everything to meet him as soon as possible and I said to him:” I love you, I You buy! “” Although weakened, this fall, she made a point of honor to be present at the inauguration of her masterful exhibition at the European House of Photography.
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