{"title":"Pierre Alechinsky","description":"\u003cp\u003ePierre Alechinsky (born 1927, Brussels) is a Belgian painter and printmaker whose practice from the late 1940s onwards developed a gestural, calligraphic approach to painting rooted in automatic writing, Eastern calligraphy and the expressive traditions of CoBrA, the international avant-garde movement he joined in 1949.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA founding member of CoBrA alongside Karel Appel, Asger Jorn and Constant, Alechinsky contributed to the movement’s rejection of geometric abstraction in favour of spontaneous, figurative and mythological imagery drawn from folk art, children’s drawing and the unconscious. Following CoBrA’s dissolution in 1951, he settled in Paris, where he studied printmaking under Stanley William Hayter at Atelier 17 and developed a sustained engagement with etching, lithography and artists’ books.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA journey to Japan in 1955 deepened his interest in calligraphy and ink painting, leading to the film \u003cem\u003eCalligraphie japonaise\u003c\/em\u003e (1955) and a body of work in which the painted mark was treated as a form of writing and the written mark as a form of painting. His large-scale works of the 1960s and 1970s, often incorporating painted borders of smaller images surrounding a central composition, established him as one of the most distinctive voices in European post-war painting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlechinsky’s participation in \u003cem\u003eCentenaire de Jean Paulhan: De la peinture et de l’écrit\u003c\/em\u003e (Le Bateau-Lavoir, Paris, 1984) reflects his longstanding engagement with the relationship between painting and writing. His work is held in major collections internationally, including the Centre Pompidou, Paris, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"centenaire-jean-paulhan-peinture-ecrit-bateau-lavoir-paris-1984","title":"ARTAUD, ALECHINSKY, BRAQUE, ERNST, CHAGALL, BALTHUS, KLEE, DUBUFFET, MICHAUX et al. — Centenaire de Jean Paulhan: De la peinture et de l’écrit. Le Bateau-Lavoir, Paris, 1984–85","description":"\u003cp\u003eLe Bateau-Lavoir, 18 rue de Seine, Paris, 11 December 1984–4 February 1985. Original folded exhibition invitation. Offset-printed card stock, 15 × 10.5 cm folded, 30 × 10.5 cm unfolded. Monochrome reproduction to cover; blank reverse; exhibition details with artist list inside.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: Good. Light age toning, minor handling and surface marks, and wear along the central fold.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrganised for the centenary of Jean Paulhan’s birth, the exhibition brought together work by artists including Antonin Artaud, Pierre Alechinsky, Georges Braque, Max Ernst, Georges Rouault, Victor Brauner, Marc Chagall, Balthus, Paul Klee, Jean Fautrier, Henri Michaux, Jean Dubuffet, Gaston Chaissac, Germaine Richier, Giorgio de Chirico, André Masson, Friedensreich Hundertwasser and Odilon Redon. The accompanying catalogue was prepared by Mira Jacob and Claire Paulhan and combined reproductions with manuscript material.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs editor of \u003cem\u003eLa Nouvelle Revue française\u003c\/em\u003e and a longstanding reader and supporter of painters, Paulhan occupied a position between literary publishing and visual art. His correspondence, criticism and editorial work connected figures who otherwise belonged to different generations and movements.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe invitation converts that network into a page. Names are distributed without chronology or hierarchy, moving between writers, painters and artist-writers. The centenary is recorded not through a portrait of Paulhan, but through the company assembled around him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShips flat, securely backed and tracked from the UK.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Le Bateau-Lavoir","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54010298401106,"sku":"PAULHAN-BATEAULAVOIR-INV-1984","price":95.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Artaud_Alechinsky_Braque_Ernst_Chagall_Balthus._Show_invite_of_painting_and_writing_._1984.jpg?v=1784181297"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/pierre-alechinsky.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}