Biography
Pierre Pirson was born in Liège in 1957. Though all his family live there, he left the town in 1977 to settle in Herentals, in the Anvers region.
Choosing freedom and cultivating it, he doesn’t move in fine arts and architecture circle, preferring to evolve as a self-made man following his affinities.
About twenty years later he leaves Belgium and all his ties to set out on an artistic journey around the world.
“ All that I want is to discover a part of myself that I still don’t know.”
From Spain to the United States of America, including Australia and New-Zealand, to install himself in the Marquesas Islands for several months, Pierre visited and stopped, thanks to his previous journeys in Asia and in Africa, on the five continents. He took a look at them, put down his rucksack, his brushes and his canvas, painting and living there in the same way natives do in order to immerse himself in the reality and the truth of such rich and different cultures.
“Painting is all my life, I have devoted patient efforts to it for thirty years. After many journeys and exhibitions here and there all over the world, I have decided to come back to the country of my childhood and to rediscover myself here…”
Honours
Selection and Public’s prize of the Autumn Exhibition, 1986, Paris, France.
Private art collections
Antwerp, Bonn, Brussels, Cannes, Carrara, Den Haag, Dijon, Djerba, Herentals, Liège, Lille, Marquesas Islands, Milan, Munich, New-York, Osaka, Papeete, Paris, Rome, Rotterdam, Sao Paulo, Sydney, Tahiti.
Art collections
Contemporary art museum of Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Museum of Osaka , Japan.
Town Hall, Herentals, Belgium.
Gauguin and Jacques Brel areas museums, the Marquesas Islands, Polynesia.
University of Liège.
Books
“The mythical symbolism” written by Frans de Peuter
Many press articles.
Exhibition catalogue published in December 2000.
Meetings
With artists : Léonor Fini, Paul Mara, René Véris, Pierre Alechinsky.
With writers : Béatrice Libert, Frans de Peuter.
Art education (1995-2002)
- Old pictorial techniques of Masters of the Renaissance.
- Japanese coatings.
- Artistic coatings with lime.
- Italian coatings (marmorino, stucco antico, stucco venetiano)
- Indian coatings (curanam)
- Moroccan coatings (tadelakt)
- Fresco’s techniques (fresco and secco)
- Painting in oils and water-based paint (acrylic, watercolour, natural resin, skin glue, painting with eggs, tempera, gilding and technique of backgrounds and materials)
Special feature
Pierre Pirson is also world-famous fresco painter. He is officially recognize for the restoration of the Belgian and Italian architectural heritages.