Exhibition - Alechinsky: 50 Years of Lithography

Discover some 60 lithographies born of the meeting between Pierre Alechinsky and Peter Bramsen. In La Hulpe from 25/05 to 15/09/13.

It was at Bramsen's home that Alechinsky would develop almost all of his works.

The exhibition retraces a half-century of adventures and friendship which produced rich, audacious, works full of humour and liberty.

The exhibition also presents a handful of books and sandstone and porcelain bindings created by Hans Spinner and ordered by Alechinsky on which the artist traced his marvellously unusual calligraphies.

The range of Alechinsky's art

• Slagheaps, volcanos and spirals,
• snakes, volutes and fumaroles,
• labyrinths, silhouettes, skulls and embryonic faces.

The black and white in which the evocative energy of the stroke is so strong, meets intense colour which bursts with the vivacity of the artist's paintbrush.

"The use of colour in printing is astonishing," explained Pierre Alechinsky. "With Peter, I followed a route which starts with colour itself: the hot, the animal, the vegetal, the mineral, the cold, the aerial."

"The paintbrush sometimes invites the artist to leave his inks on other media: hotel receipts aged by time, bills, official papers, maps, school books, old post packages."

Unearthed at flea markets or in attics by attentive friends, these papers that served a second purpose other than their initial one, have followed the path that the artist has laid out for them.

Location

• Folon Foundation (LA HULPE)

Location