Pierre Alechinsky. Palimpsests.
Silvana Editoriale| N° d'inventaire | 20939 |
| Format | 16.8 x 22.2 |
| Détails | 160 p., numerous illustrations, paperback. |
| Publication | Milan, 2017 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9788836636358 |
Pierre Alechinsky, born in Brussels in 1927, is passionate about the world of print. For over 60 years, he has been collecting and gathering all sorts of papers with the most diverse pasts. Scouring flea markets and archival collections, the artist diverts old handwritten letters, business letters with letterhead, invoices, old maps and city plans... from their original use to integrate them with extraordinary freedom into his own creations.
By stamping manhole covers and manhole covers in the streets of Arles, Brussels, Liège, New York, Beijing, Rome and Salzburg, he has given new life to the most modest street furniture.
In the course of 279 notices, this catalog published on the occasion of the exhibition Pierre Alechinsky. The Palimpsests presented at the Centre de la Gravure et de l'Image imprimé in La Louvière (Belgium) corresponds to a detailed inventory - and largely annotated by the artist - of all the types of palimpsests that he has produced since the end of the 1940s.
An unpublished text by Yves Peyré sheds light on this very particular approach.
Pierre Alechinsky, born in Brussels in 1927, is passionate about the world of print. For over 60 years, he has been collecting and gathering all sorts of papers with the most diverse pasts. Scouring flea markets and archival collections, the artist diverts old handwritten letters, business letters with letterhead, invoices, old maps and city plans... from their original use to integrate them with extraordinary freedom into his own creations.
By stamping manhole covers and manhole covers in the streets of Arles, Brussels, Liège, New York, Beijing, Rome and Salzburg, he has given new life to the most modest street furniture.
In the course of 279 notices, this catalog published on the occasion of the exhibition Pierre Alechinsky. The Palimpsests presented at the Centre de la Gravure et de l'Image imprimé in La Louvière (Belgium) corresponds to a detailed inventory - and largely annotated by the artist - of all the types of palimpsests that he has produced since the end of the 1940s.
An unpublished text by Yves Peyré sheds light on this very particular approach.