Pierre-Louis Acciari

Pierre-Louis Acciari lives and works in the Lyon region, but as a homecoming, reinstalled his workshop in the heart of Provence. Nourished by the youngest age by comics (Jack Kirby and the whole Marvel team, the newspaper of Spirou, Tintin and the 13x18 Italian formats, Blek Le Roc, Akim and other kings of the feat ...), he already knows that he must create images to live. The day he meets the albums of Phillipe Druillet and his universes populated by misshapen beings, the fascination of this work already defines his graphic horizon. After his school career, he entered the School of Fine Arts and went to discover all the artistic expressions: painting, sculpture, music and cinema. It is above all the discovery of the pictorial "gesture", which will determine the purpose of its permanent search ... Basquiat, Pollock and especially Bacon will always remain tags. He finds this artistic vision of the world in "genre cinema" and his Italian masters (Bava, Argento ...) who will legitimize his expression. Having become a graphic designer, he supports several creation studios. During a trip to Italy a few years ago, Pierre-Louis Acciari rediscovers the pleasure of drawing and painting. Travel notebooks will be his first "new works" to achieve today a real pictorial production perfectly in accordance with his graphic concerns and themes born of life experience. The liveliness of the gesture, the urgency of the line and the material remain the essential elements of his painting, without omitting a particular "ill-treatment" of color palettes.