ASSE Geneviève, DU BOUCHET André. ICI EN DEUX. Geneva and Paris, J. Quentin, 1982 : in-4 (350 x 263 mm) of 24 ff. publisher's slipcase. First edition illustrated with 4 aquatints in colour (including 2 on the cover), 4 drypoints and 4 engravings. Edition of 75 copies signed by the author and the artist (n°51). Printer: Atelier Leblanc, Paris. "Geneviève Asse's painting was waiting for André du Bouchet, André du Bouchet's poetry was waiting for Geneviève Asse. Geneviève Asse. The meeting happened. We can no longer speak of equivalence for her, still less of illustration. illustration. Identification" is the predestined title. You can follow the on the precious sheets of paper displayed, all too briefly, at La Hune. Each word of the poem suspended in a rarefied air, dropped drop by drop and barely breaking the silence of the blank page, seems, following seems, as a result of an involuntary concertation, to stick to one of the aspects of the engravings. [...] For this luxurious book, published by Editions Quentin, serves as a pretext for an exhibition with justified ambitions, a small retrospective of the artist's work. a small retrospective of engravings, most of which date from after Rainer Michael Mason's catalogue raisonné by Rainer Michael Mason (1977). Drypoints, burins, aquatints, these techniques, often mixed, follow one another on the walls and in the galleries. on the walls and in the display cases. Blue trajectories, blue tears, diagonals, verticals, etc, all bear witness to the same rigid determination to assault the inexpressible. [...]" Jean-Marie Dunoyer, Ici en deux, Le Monde, 25 January 1982.