Using four words not quite pulled out of a hat, Mark Brusse looks back on a body of work that began more than sixty years ago and that has led his singular gaze to assert itself in contact with beings and things, whether in New York and Berlin or in Asia, Latin America and Africa since the 1980s. For if his heterogeneous character can be disconcerting, it is indeed the fact of "seeing the mode of the outside with the look of the inside", as his friend Pierre Restany wrote in 1988, which links his objects-assemblages, his environments, his collages and his paintings replaying to infinity the association of elementary figures. In Paris, where he made his base in 1960, the Centre Pompidou recalls him by devoting a room in its collections to a group of works spanning his career, while the Espace Art Absolument brings together volumes and recent paintings with assemblages made in the 1980s.

Extract from the interview between Mark Brusse and Tom Laurent to be found in the issue 106 of Art Absolument to be published soon.