“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
“se distendo l’eterno come mappa dove cupidi vascelli d’alma nascono a curvatura di sole posso fantasiare la mia piccola ala di muro gialla” André Che Isse
LART UNIVERSE GALLERY Montecarlo Principato di Monaco, 19 marzo 2026:
UN GIORNO QUALUNQUE STA ALL’ESTASI QUANTO L’ELEGANZA ALLA DANZA
* la danza superna è quella che non danza ho fantasiato un port de bras di nijinsky incedo in un giorno qualunque senza staccarne i ginocchi dalle stelle
“There are artists who paint. There are artists who sculpt. And then there are artists like André Che Isse who dance inside matter. A dance master before becoming a visual artist, André carries every step, every suspension, every breath of the body into his works. His creations are born from choreography and transformed into form: dance is not just inspiration it is structure, inner rhythm, a living trace on the surface. His figures emerge like gentle presences, crossed by a light that does not merely illuminate it reveals. Thanks to backlighting, every nuance, every touch, every vibration of the artist’s hand becomes visible, almost spiritual. In that moment, the artwork speaks directly to the soul. And when the light fades, something poetic happens. The forms change skin. They become silent bas-reliefs, memories of movement. The lines grow more intimate, more secret. What remains are bodies and gestures like imprints left by a dance just completed.
We are truly grateful, at Art Universe, to welcome André into our larger vision. An artist able to merge visual expression and the art of movement into a language that is unique, sensitive, deeply human. Very soon we will meet his work at our L’arte Universe Gallery in Galleria in Sassuolo and in Montecarlo, continuing this beautiful journey together. Welcome André. May this new adventure be made of light, motion, and shared emotion.”
Tomaso Neri (probiviro per LART UNIVERSE & DALI’ UNIVERSE)