“When I paint, I liberate monsters... They are the manifestations of all the doubts, searches and groping for meaning and expression which all artists experience... One does not choose the content, one submits to it. "- Pierre Alechinksy
Pierre Alechinsky was born on 19th of October, 1927 in Brussels. The Belgian artist received the gold medal of the Circulo de Bellas Artes this recent week while presenting us with a great retrospective of his work in paper, never seen to date in Spain. His long career has positioned him as a key figure in the European Informalism.
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He began his career in 1947 and soon became a member of Cobra. This group was formed by Copenhague, Brussels and Amsterdam- founded in 1949 and dissolved by 1951. This group was characterized by the rejection of geometry in the decade of the 40s advocating for the preference and the spontaneity, while rejecting the already pre-established theories.
He decided to make of painting a way of life. When the group Cobra dissolved, Alechinksy decided to move to Paris where he met figures such as Alberto Giacometti and surrealism started grabbing his attention. In this époque, he also discovered the Japanese calligraphy, which he started using as a way of bringing together both oriental and occidental art.
His work is clearly a set of experiments and extra-pictorial elements aggregated in a collage mode; both his pieces and his writings are characterized for its humor. Alechinksy's art talks to the viewer about pleasure, of the search of everything which you cannot quantify. You can see how Alechinksy seems to be an amused student who dreams about the unexpected forms which he creates.
Location:
CÍRCULO DE BELLAS ARTES
C/ Alcalá, 42
28014 MADRID
Opening Times:
Exhibitions
From 11:00 to 14:00 and 17:00 to 21:00 h
(Tuesday to Sunday)
Monday closed
Tickets:
Access to their exhibitions: 3€
Free to youth card holders.
Transport:
Metro (subway): Sevilla / Banco de España
Bus: 1 / 2 / 5 / 9 / 14 / 15 / 20 / 27 / 45 / 46 / 51 / 52 / 53 / 74 / 146 / 147 / 150
Covered by Beatriz de Tomás.