Pierre Alechinsky
05.06.2025 - 12.09.2025
Pierre Alechinsky and his artist friends
DIE GALERIE
On 5 June 2025, DIE GALERIE will ring in the summer - with an exhibition that is diverse, colorful, spontaneous and also a little loud. The CoBrA, a group of artists from the middle of the 20th century, was young, wild, direct and impulsive. Even though the association quickly disbanded and its members went on to great international careers, the ideas of the CoBrA were sustainable and trend-setting. Many of the artists maintained friendships and collaborations for decades to come. Based on personal friendships and contacts, DIE GALERIE has long been committed to the artists of the CoBrA group. Since the early 1980s, numerous solo and group exhibitions have been organized in this way, both in the gallery's own rooms and in museums and cultural institutes. This tradition is now being continued in a tribute to Pierre Alechinsky and his artist friends in DIE GALERIE. To this day, there is a particularly close connection between the gallery owner Peter Femfert and Pierre Alechinsky, one of the most influential networkers of the CoBrA and, at the age of 97, the last living representative of this group.
Born in Brussels in 1927, after studying book illustration and typography in his home city, the artist became the youngest member of the CoBrA group in 1949. In the same year, he designed the cover of the third issue of the magazine and the poster for a festival of experimental and poetic film. As a young painter, Pierre Alechinsky embraced the CoBrA's ideas of spontaneity and direct expression; after the group's dissolution in 1951, he quickly developed his own individual style, devoting himself in particular to drawing and studying Asian calligraphy. In 1955 he traveled to Japan for the first time. Since then, his works have oscillated between East Asian art and aesthetics and a Western understanding of images. In 1957, he created his first ink drawings on Chinese paper as well as black and white lithographs, which are characterized by graphic, ornamental elements. Since 1965, Alechinsky has been painting large-format paintings in acrylic and dividing his pictures into main and secondary areas, the so-called "marginal notes". He mounts his paintings on paper on canvas, which gives the works a unique translucency and radiance.
Exhibited artists: Pierre Alechinsky, Karel Appel, Asger Jorn, Corneille, Lucebert, Carl-Henning Pedersen, Christian Dotremont, Constant, Reinhoud, Theo Wolvecamp, Karl-Otto Götz
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