The work of Pierre Alechinsky at the Circulo de Bellas Artes in February

The Fine Arts honors the history of the prestigious Belgian painter and engraver Pierre Alechinsky from February 19 to May 17 in Goya and Minerva rooms with a unique exhibition of his works from 1965 to 2013. This exhibition, the first retrospective in Spain of its production on paper, will announce the Madrid public the work of one of the most iconic artists whose paintings postwar part of the collections of the world's most prestigious museums like MoMA, the Tate Gallery and the Museum of Fine Arts Belgium.

Make painting and, by extension, life is an adventure. Pierre Alechinsky (Brussels, 1927) is, along with Asger Jorn and Karl Appel, among others, one of the leading members of the CoBrA group, emanating from surrealism movement, born in 1948 in Paris. Throughout his career, Alechinsky, turns in his work his penchant for experimentation and search for new possibilities in visual language.

 After the dissolution of CoBrA in 1951, the author of Central Park moved to Paris. It is thereafter when his work begins to be imbued with the Surrealist movement, discover Japanese calligraphy and, above all, chisels one of the most critical features of his career, to create a conversation area continuous and contradictory at the edges of his paintings, which includes, by way of vignettes, parallel narratives and marginal notes.

The Fine Arts hosts a major retrospective of this key figure in European informality, and it does allocate for this two emblematic spaces: the Goya living room and Minerva. The exhibition will realize the magnitude of this author; a deeply poetic, gestural and energy work.

RETROSPECTIVE PIERRE ALECHINSKY
19/02/2015> 17/05/2015 • SALA GOYA Y MINERVA