ANDRÉ CHE ISSE

“André Che Isse develops a research that interweaves dance, writing and painting, conceived as expressions of the body, mind and soul. Trained as a dancer, he translates movement into visual form: in his works, cords sewn onto the canvas trace the geometry of postures and space, transforming gesture into structure and rhythm into a visible language.
In Che Isse’s practice, the arts do not exist as separate territories. Painting, poetry and dance enter into a continuous dialogue of returns and resonances, generating a circular process in which each discipline feeds and transforms the other. The body becomes dance, the mind becomes writing, the soul becomes painting.
At the center of this creative universe lies a single axis: the soul. It is the generative core around which every artistic gesture takes shape. Dance inspires the works, the works generate new movements, while poetry traverses both, evolving in the process. His compositions, often enriched by light and material experimentation, reveal a subtle balance between presence and immateriality.
For Che Isse, the soul is both substance and origin: a gravitational force that holds together gesture, word and image. As in a self-regulating universe, his artistic vision unfolds around an invisible yet essential principle, where plasticity, matter and beauty converge into a poetic and spiritual structure.”
LART UNIVERSE

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<< My cartouches, safeguard a millennial wisdom: born as ‘theurgic algorithms’, esoteric formulas tattooed upon my dancer’s body to bolster the shamanic (metaphysical) gesture. My cartouches were born from a deliberate encounter that traverses another passion for the ideographic script of the Zen calligrapher and the abstract form of Islamic writing, which find their osmotic treasury within the Egyptian cartouche, bearers of my signature. >>
André Che Isse