Pierre Alechinsky: Marginalia: Quill and Brush. This item is unavailable.Pierre Alechinsky: Marginalia: Quill and Brush

• Legendary Belgian artist Pierre Alechinsky (born 1927), originally trained in printing and etching, is best known for his work as a painter, associated with European Tachisme and the Cobra group
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Pierre Alechinsky: Marginalia highlights an aspect of the artist's work that is perhaps less familiar: his long-standing interest in the illustrated book. This fascination has fed Alechinsky's collaborative projects with writers and his incorporation of 'marginal remarks' into his own monumental paintings over many years. Maintaining a deep engagement with the written word in literary and painting contexts, Alechinsky has worked with writers such as André Breton, Eugene Ionesco, Christian Dotremont, Roger Caillois, Hélène Cixous, Joyce Mansour, Michel Butor, Hugo Claus, E.M. Cioran, Marcel Moreau, Pierre-Andre Benoit and Roland Topor. Pierre Alechinsky: Marginalia presents Alechinsky in three characteristic modes - as reader, illustrator and artist.

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Pierre Alechinsky, is an internationally renown artist known for the freedom and creativity portrayed in his painting and who began his career printing and etching. This catalogue highlights this perhaps less well studied aspect: research on illustrated books and the ensuing partnerships. "Adorned" books as Matisse would have said-where the contribution of Alechinsky's art is very important-where the dialogue with the written word is a constant preoccupation and which can be seen with the precious partnerships established between numerous writers (Pierre-André Benoit known as PAB, Christian Dotremont and Marcel Moreau.), and artists (Michel Butor, Roland Topor, André Breton, Salah Stétié.), least forgetting mischievous puns, great spoonerisms and novel seesawing between the artist's different techniques.