The paintings presented in this first section were created between 2011 and 2013 and are directly linked to Jean-Claude Bossel’s work as a composer.

In the pictorial works of this period, painting appears as a visual transposition of a pre-existing musical material The forms, rhythms and colour structures draw upon motifs taken from musical scores composed about a decade earlier.

These paintings therefore mark the moment when the visual arts became a natural extension of the artist’s musical work, opening the way to an interdisciplinary approach in which music, painting and formal thought enter into close dialogue.

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The paintings presented in this section belong to the interdisciplinary PERLES DE VERRE project, inspired by the novel The Glass Bead Game (French title: Le Jeu des Perles de verre) by Hermann Hesse.

During this phase of his work, Jean-Claude Bossel established an artistic framework in which mathematics, music and the visual arts are combined. The paintings incorporate equations, geometric motifs and musical references, notably the famous B-A-C-H motif from The Art of Fugue by Johann Sebastian Bach.

These works may be regarded as elements of an artistic and intellectual game in which forms, colours, musical notes and mathematical relationships appear as different expressions of a single conceptual investigation.

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The paintings presented in this third section mark the appearance of the first ENCRYPTED PAINTINGS developed by Jean-Claude Bossel.

These works contain hidden messages encrypted by means of methods derived from mathematics and cryptology. The graphic symbols visible in the paintings, particularly dots or holes of different sizes and colours, correspond to coding systems.

The encryption process is now developed under the registered trademark ® CODE BACH, which constitutes one of the principal axes of the artistic and conceptual work of Jean-Claude Bossel. It also gives rise to decryption competitions called CRYPTO CHALLENGES.

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The SIXTIES FANTASIES production explores a visual universe inspired by the cultural imagination of the sixties, combining historical, cultural and artistic references associated with this significant period.

These works are characterised by a more immediately recognisable iconography and by a deliberately assertive graphic language. They nevertheless extend the formal and conceptual research developed in the previous periods.

In the paintings of this production, the encryption processes associated with CODE BACH are systematically employed, creating several levels of reading between the visible image and the hidden messages concealed within it.

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The MOON production represents another body of recent pictorial work based on the ® CODE BACH encryption process.

These paintings are part of a contemporary context marked by the return of major powers to lunar exploration and by a new international technological competition.

In these works, Jean-Claude Bossel develops a distinctive visual universe in which scientific references, current geopolitical developments and graphic symbols derived from his research on encrypted paintings are combined.

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