Pierre Alarcon

Pierre Alarcon has no age. It depends.
His painting has no frame. It depends.
A freelance artist (what a redundancy!), Pierre Alarcon paints on canvas, in acrylic, oil pastel, oil, this Prévert-esque list is not exhaustive. What a joy...
“A mixture of figurative with color and a little abstraction,” is his answer when asked to define his style.
A humble look at a work that is already very well mastered and which could suffer from too wide a variety of "experiences", but this is not the case, his paintings speak for themselves.

What is striking about his art is the multiple influences and the feeling that painting is a game. A field of endless creation.
He, the former rugby player in perpetual search of spaces, seems to magnify in his works the art of overflow rather than that of framing.
His style is intuitive but under a figurative axis, with color and abstraction as primary choices, his paintings reveal a force, a power, not feigned.

Photographs, contemporary works, graphic design from the 1980s and 1990s—his inspirations are multiple. The uniqueness of each of his paintings is astonishing.
The artist is multifaceted and, like his wild runs of yesteryear on the rugby pitch, they surprise and impress both connoisseurs and novices.

Even though he is "gently" approaching fifty, and even though Pierre Alarcon has been painting since adolescence, his creations seem timeless, eternally young, fresh, inspired, inspiring, alive.
And the artist is like his works: aware of the framework, he enjoys going beyond it. He with his hand, we with our eyes. And our minds.

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