Moreaux + Raasum = MOROSUM
Morosum is a dissemination project, and the initiative for this website and the book ‘Morosum’ we took with Else Raasum in 2011. We jointly wanted to create interest in Jean Moreaux’s and Else Raasum’s art with new generations of art lovers – both in France, where the artist couple lived for the last 25 years of their joint life, but especially in Denmark, where the knowledge of Raasum and Moreaux is still limited, because the couple only managed to hold a few exhibitions here. It is our impression that Raasum’s colourism and light calligraphic line, and Moreaux’s fabulous humour and biting political irony, speak to a Danish audience to a great extent.
Malene Ringvad is MSc. in Danish and Raasum’s niece, and she has followed the couple with interest throughout the years, though geographically and in terms of age. Peter Friederich is an architect, married to Malene and has known Raasum and Moreaux since 1986.
Since we are not specialists in art, our task is to present the works and the dialogue about the works that have taken place over the years, so that the viewer can go on himself discovery and draw conclusions. In collaboration with Raasum, we have photographed and recorded all available works, and we have gathered materials from many sources to shed light on the art that the couple created together.
