By 1960 he had exhibited in London, Berne and at the Venice Biennial, and then in Pittsburg, New York, Amsterdam and Silkeborg as his international reputation grew. he worked with Wallace Ting and continued to be close to Christian Dotremont. He also developed links with Andre Breton. His international career continued throughout the seventies and by 1983 he became Professor of painting at the Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris. In 1994 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Free University of Brussels, and in 1995 one of his designs was used on a Belgian stamp.
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actual exhibitions of Pierre Alechinsky in museums and galleries (http://www.artfacts.net/index.php/pageType/artistInfo/artist/4664/lang/1)
Alechinsky, born in Belgium in 1927, started his career in the late 40's as the youngest member of the short-lived Cobra, that group of Danish, Dutch and Belgian artists who practiced a gestural abstraction grounded in Surrealist automatism and European expressionism.
Alechinsky in 1965 of surrounding a central image, usually painted in acrylic, with a wide border, usually drawn in ink and ink wash, which is compartmentalized into a series of little cartoon-like scenes.
Alechinsky's way with paint, rather than ink, seems to hold more promise for development, and since that is rarely forthcoming, one begins to think of him as a talented graphic artist, as a painter manque and, generally, as an artist who has repeatedly settled for too little too soon.
PierreAlechinsky, who was born in 1927 in Brussels, Belgium, studied at the Brussels Academy of Architecture.
Alechinsky was entranced by the art of bookmaking, this passion he fulfilled in his 40's by studying typography, illustration and engraving at the School of Decorative Arts in Brussels.
Alechinsky is known to speak about his left hand as "the one that has known only liberty and pleasure".
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