Pierre ALECHINSKY
Date of birth : 1927
Country : belgium
Belgian painter, now living in France.
As a young artist, Alechinsky was a member of the COBRA group (Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam).
The paintings he produced at that time depict a multitude of characters. They already demonstrate his taste for sarcastic names for his work.
In the 1980s he began creating small sculptures made of clay and ceramic, and worked in particular with masses of earth, as in Exit presented here.
Using the technique of ‘automatic writing’ inherited from the surrealists, he traces figures and patterns characteristic of a dream-like world, providing meaning and substance to the rippled surface of his works.
Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Museum of Modern Art in New York, Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Museums in Los Angeles, London, Brussels and Tokyo.