Alechinsky
The Botanique’s latest exhibition focuses on the Belgian painter and printmaker Pierre Alechinsky, who interestingly used his right hand for writing and his left for drawing
The Botanique is well known as a Brussels concert venue. However, it is often forgotten that it is also an exhibition space, and a rather good one at that. This is where the photography exhibition Controverses was recently held, which included the headlinegrabbing photo of a naked, 10 year-old Brooke Shields (the one that was removed from the Tate Modern in London after a visit by the Metropolitan police’s obscenity squad).
The Botanique’s latest exhibition, opening March 4, will focus on the Belgian painter and printmaker Pierre Alechinsky, who interestingly used his right hand for writing and his left for drawing. To celebrate his 80th birthday a couple of years ago the Royal Museums of Fine Arts in Brussels organised a retrospective of Alechinsky’s paintings, drawings, prints and book illustrations. The upcoming exhibition will be smaller in scope, aiming to highlight the major stages of the artist’s graphic work through his lithographs, etchings and other prints and engravings.
Some of the exhibits are works done with Christian Dotremont, the leader of the CoBrA (Copenhagen-Brussels-Amsterdam) artistic movement that was founded in the late 1940s and of which Alechinsky was also a member.
Over the years Alechinsky’s works have been exhibited throughout the world, including at the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York. The Botanique exhibition provides an opportunity to see the Belgian’s work here in the city where he was born.
-- Anna Jenkinson
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