Artist
Pierre Alechinsky
Painter and engraver
Pierre Alechinsky (b. 1927, Brussels, Belgium) is a Belgian painter and printmaker, a leading member of the CoBrA movement, a group of European avant-garde artists active between 1948 and 1951. His work combines the expressive freedom of spontaneous art with references to oriental drawing and Japanese calligraphy.
In his painting, Alechinsky explores a universe filled with signs, doodles, and vivid colors, conveying a dynamic energy and a blend of the abstract and the figurative. His technique includes ink, collage, and mixed media, with a strong influence from folk art and urban visual culture.
Throughout his extensive career, he has received numerous awards and exhibited internationally. His work is characterized by a balance between intuitive emotion and formal control, generating a visual poetry that challenges the conventions of contemporary art.
Exhibitions
- The Ephemeral Village
- There Are Other Worlds, But They Are in This One
- Zanele Muholi
- Femme Femme
- Apocalypse Now
- The Other Face of the Moon
- Lesser Evil
- The Feathers Burning in Flight
- The Veiled Voice (Madrid)
- Mythologies of the Home
- Joel-Peter Witkin
- Creatures
- The Feathers Burning in Flight (Madrid)
- The Golden Scale
- The Memory of the Line
- Invisible Captivity
- The Flame of the Heart als Peus
- Point in Time
- Chronicle Team
- Petits Bijoux
- The Joyful Marginalization
- Neither Submissive nor Devoted
- The Image Burns
- The Flowering of Succulents
- Lights and Shadows
- Historical Memory
- A Minute of Glory
- Keith Haring – Barcelona
- El Dorado
- Miró Lidó
- Emotions in Black
- A Master of Kinetics