Pierre Cézorzinski

Pierre Cézorzinski was born in February 1964 in Sainte Marie aux Mines, a small Alsatian town nestled in the hollow of a valley of the Vosges. As a child, it is in this completely natural environment that he admires the beauty and the simplicity of things, but in the family printing press it is in the observation of artistic practice that he discovers the difficulty of achieving perfection. , thanks in particular to the technical heritage transmitted by his painter father and his art bookbinder grandfather. However, he left the region at a very young age to follow his parents to Strasbourg, a city in which he continued his studies from primary to secondary. Sent to boarding school around 1977, it was in the vicinity of Colmar that he pursued his passion for nature and obtained a landscaping diploma in 1980.

In parallel with his creative practice, Pierre has worked in several different professions, "food" jobs always chosen according to their creative potential, and crosses the course of formalization at the age of 37 by registering his activity in the French register. companies, thus becoming an independent painter. From his first studio located in Mutzig in Alsace, the artist exhibited relatively quickly in regional galleries, participated in numerous group exhibitions in the Grand Est and in Germany, was involved in several fairs and exhibitions in the Paris region and took off. even in 2008 to participate in an international fair in Canton, China.

In 2010, the artist moved his studio to Strasbourg and quickly became part of a convergent contemporary movement, the influence of which is mainly guided by his travels. However, he leaves the classic artistic scheme that surrounds him by developing his own way of painting, a technique allowing him: "to achieve his work while making it easier for himself!". Unconventional but sociable, inventive and painting without hesitation, he supports his pictorial mastery by rubbing shoulders with neighboring workshops, expressionist artists and plastic artists, an alliance that naturally leads him to compose with matter and color.

The artist's current approach openly resembles a denunciation, a protest against the degradation of the natural environment and more precisely the pollution of water. This primordial and fragile element which is metamorphosed into 3 possible physical states, gas, liquid and solid, constitutes the essential ideological approach of the artist, the subject of Antarctica being perfectly associated with his work of matter, he thus combines the future of water to current art.

Telling the secrets of his soul through cryptic language always ends up having meaning. This is the artist's point of view: “if the message of the painting passes through the force of emotion or through the imagination of the spectator, whether he is a layman or a connoisseur, I no longer speak of works but of artistic joy, ”he wrote.

With Pierre Cézorzinski, this "artistic joy" therefore passes above all and above all through the work of the material associated with the gradients. His paintings require a preparation almost similar to the work of a mason. The traces of the knife remain visible like those left by the spatula when coating a wall. On this type of skilful and often colored texture, he applies solids or gradients in the colors and adds the polar bears at the very end, probably to signify greater fragility. A work of texture through superimpositions of matter and a refined search for colors create a homogeneous alchemy in which the elements circulate well between them, this balance is a perfect convergence between abstraction and figurative.

As led by Ariadne's thread, the artist seems to seek in her theme “Glaciation”, something forgotten in time, when the bears were white and the ice still solid. In his canvases, everything suggests the mineral space. Through figurative clues, polar bears, the viewer's imagination is driven outside the canvas. The work of the artist who mixes figurative elements and abstract flights through an intense emotion refers us to a quote from Carl Gustav Jung:

"Without emotions, it is impossible to turn darkness into light and apathy into movement."