Pierre Alechinsky
June 5, 2025 – September 12, 2025
Pierre Alechinsky and his artist friends
DIE GALERIE
On June 5, 2025, DIE GALERIE will herald DIE GALERIE with an exhibition that is multifaceted, colorful, spontaneous, and even a little loud. That's how CoBrA, an artist group from the mid-20th century, was: young, wild, direct, and impulsive. Even though the association quickly disbanded and its members embarked on major international careers, CoBrA's ideas were lasting and groundbreaking. Many of the artists continued to cultivate friendships and collaborations for decades to come. Based on personal friendships and contacts, DIE GALERIE 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 its own premises and in museums and cultural institutions. This tradition is now DIE GALERIE in DIE GALERIE with a tribute to Pierre Alechinsky and his artist friends. To this day, there is a particularly close connection between gallery owner Peter Femfert and Pierre Alechinsky, one of the most influential networkers of CoBrA and, at 97 years of age, the last surviving 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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