Pierre Alechinsky

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1944-1948: studies typography and book illustration at La Cambre, the national school of architecture and decorative arts, Brussels; he begins to paint on the side holiday wreaths

1947: first individual exhibition, Galerie Lou Cosyn, Brussels porcelain trinket box

1949: participates in the CoBrA (Copenhagen-Brussels-Amsterdam) movement with Karel Appel, Constant, Corneille, Christian Dotremont, Asger Jorn ...; creates a center for research for CoBrA in the Ateliers du Marais : the common house in Brussels where Alechinsky, Olyff, Strebelle, de Heusch, Reinhoud ... work

1951: Dotremont and Jorn, hospitalized in Denmark, charge him with organizing the Second (and last) International Exhibition of Experimental Art of CoBrA at the Palais de Beaux-Arts in Lige. After this, he leaves Brussels and moves to Paris

1952: improves his engraving technique at the Atelier 17 beside Stanley William Hayter 1954: first individual exhibition in Paris, Galerie Nina Dausset

1955: leaves from Marseille for Yokohama, directs a film in Kyoto : Calligraphie japonaise

1958: collaborates on Daily-Bl, La Louvire; joins the committee of directors of the Salon de Mai in Paris

1961: room of honor at Carnegie International of 1961 in Pittsburgh; first trip to New York, staying at the Chelsea Hotel, and then at the home of Walasse Ting, whom Alechinsky knew in the 50s in Paris

1962: until 1986, 18 shows at the Lefebre Gallery, New York

1964: installs his studio in Bougival (Yvelines)

1965: Central Park, his first painting "with noticeable margins," a method that he would develop; he imposes a drawing around a central subject; he gradually abandons oil painting for acrylic on paper on canvas

1966: Andr Breton chooses Central Park for Lart absolu, Eleventh [and final] International Exhibition of Surrealism, Paris

1968: Wins the Grand Prix Marzotto-Europe for painting, Valdagno

1969: retrospective at the Palais de Beaux-Arts in Brussels, which traveled to Denmark and Germany

1975: shows a decade's worth of acrylic paintings at the Boymans-van Beuningen museum in Rotterdam and at the Muse drt moderne de la Ville de Paris

1976: Sept critures, with Christian Dotremont, a mural decoration in a metro station in Brussels

1977: Andrew W. Mellon Prize for the whole of his work, arranged in a retrospective at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh.

1979: joins the Galerie Maeght in Paris, which would become Galerie Lelong

1980: retrospective at the Kestner Society, Hannover

1981: Print Retrospective' at the Museum of Modern Art, New York

1984: Professor at the French National School of Fine Arts, Paris until 1987; Grand Prix National des Arts et Lettres, Paris

1985: decorates the waiting room of the Ministry of Culture, Paris

1986: Margin and Center, retrospective of paintings "with noticeable margins," The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

1987: installs a studio in Provence

1989: Fluctuations, allegorical painting for the Ministry of Finances, Paris

1992: decorates the entrance to Ministry of National Education, Paris; publishes Lettre suit (Gallimard)

1993: The Fragile Garden, a mural painting in the small rotunda that connects the Htel de Lassay with the Palais Bourbon; retrospective at Saarland Museum, Saarbrcken.

1994: Honorary doctorate from the Universit Libre de Bruxelles.

1995: Zoek de Zeven, with Hugo Claus, decoration with enamel wash at RUCA, Antwerp

1998: retrospective at the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris; retrospective at the Printroom of the Muse drt et distoire, Geneva.

1999: Brush Thought in homage to Asger Jorn, mural with enamel wash at the Silkeborg Kunstmuseum (Denmark)

2000: Alechinsky, divers faits, Muse Jenisch, Vevey. Alechinsky, 50 ans dimprimerie, Center for Engraving, La Louvire

2002: Alechinsky, The Complete Books (Ceuleers & Van de Velde, Antwerp

2004: Dessins de cinq dcennies, retrospective at the Georges Pompidou Center, Paris. Prix Andr Malraux for Des deux mains (Mercure de France) and Carnet en deux temps (Buchet-Castel)

2005: Les Impressions de Pierre Alechinsky, Bibliothque nationale de France; individual exhibition at the Kunsthalle in Emden

2006: Alechinsky, sources et resurgences by Daniel Abadie (Hazan) with an exhibition at the Maison Ren Char in LIsle-sur-la-Sorgue ; Peter et Pierre, forty years of lithographies with Peter Bramsen (Buchet-Chastel)

2007: Les Affiches, catalogue raisonn (Ides et Calendes), Alechinsky from A to Y by Michel Draguet (Gallimard and Lannoo) for the present retrospective in Brussels at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium.

Bibliography

Mueller-Yao, Marguerite: Der Einfluss der Kunst der chinesischen Kalligraphie auf die westliche informelle Malerei, Diss Bonn, Koeln Koenig 1985 , ISBN 3-88375-051-4 (pbk)

References

^ tate.org.uk

^ moma.org

^ collections.walkerart.org

^ http://www.expo-alechinsky.be/EN/Tentoonstelling.aspx

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