From 1982, Pierre Alechinsky collected loose plates from the Flora Danica, an engraved encyclopaedia of Danish flora begun in 1762 and completed in 1883. Using these intertwined flowers, leaves, stems, moulds and fungi as a base, he picked up his brush and planted his own garden of faces, glances, hairstyles, gestures and more. A marvellous reimagining of science through drawing, some twenty pieces of which will be displayed at the Festival. In addition to this series, some forty lithographs will illustrate an extraordinary artistic adventure, which is also the story of a great friendship. More than forty years ago, Pierre Alechinsky met Peter Bramsen from the famous Atelier Clot, a major figure in lithography. Day after day, year after year, together they created a body of work consisting of allusions, humour and sometimes worry, but mostly freedom. The result is truly spellbinding.
Curator Nicolas Raboud
