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Pierre Alechinsky

Karel Appel

Alexander Archipenko

George Baselitz

Frank Auerbach

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Pierre Alechinsky

Alechinsky was born in 1927 in Brussels. By 1944, he attended the Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Architecture and Decorative Arts of La Cambre in Brussels. Alechinsky Dotremont met Christian in 1949 and joined the Cobra with Karel Appel and Asger Jorn. In the early 50's Alechinsky introduced to printmaking (etching) with Stanley William Hayter at Atelier 17. Alechinsky also learn Japanese calligraphy, which he devotes a film in 1952. Alechinsky became friends with Giacometti, Bram Van Velde, Victor Brauner and Wallace Ting. 1955 saw his first major exhibition at the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels, three years later, the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London which houses his works. (Paintings, works on paper, prints) In the 60s, Alechinsky exhibited regularly at The Lefebre Gallery in New York and the Galerie de France in Paris, his paintings are exhibited but also his prints, lithographs and engravings. Many exhibitions are devoted to Alechinsky United States, but also in Holland. In 1969, major retrospective at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, then at the Louisiana Museum of Art in Denmark, then at the Kunstverein in Dusseldorf and the Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany. Alechinsky and Dotremont represent Belgium at the Venice Biennale in 1972, many exhibitions in the world (Belgium, Denmark, Switzerland, USA, Canada, and Holland, Mexico). The artist draws and watercolor on paper former. Alechinsky resume this process also for his etchings, lithographs and engravings. Alechinsky became professor of painting at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in Paris from 1983 to 1987. Museums and galleries around the world welcome his works. Painter writer Alechinsky published titles and lost bread (Denoel, 1965), The other hand (Fata Morgana, 1988), Letter follows (Gallimard, 1992), Bundles and ricochets (Gallimard, 1994), Marginal Notes (Gallimard, 1997 ), Rue de la Verrerie (The Stall, 1997), The Brush traveler (Gallimard, 2002), both hands (Mercure de France, 2004). Many exhibitions have celebrated prints Alechinsky, who explored the possibilities of etching and lithography techniques: monumental etchings, lithographs in multiple colors, prints with rubbings of street furniture, aquatints and media choices paper as a notarial deed, bill, etc. the legacy register. The artist has also illustrated many books, mostly of etchings or aquatints strong, great writers and poets such as Cioran, Cingria, Yves Bonnefoy, Michel Butor, Frénaud André, Jean Tardieu etc.. Alechinsky lives and works in Paris.

"Throughout his career, despite the many radical changes that led it to alter its trajectory to use another medium and other materials, Alechinsky has continued to ask: can we continually surrender to forces whose form will prove that during execution of the work? The person he can stay in touch with moments both wonderful and terrifying, which vies with wonder and fear? And if so, how? By finding a way back to his questions, clearly states its Alechinsky investigator as opposed to definitive conclusions.

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