Pierre Calogero

Pierre Calogero is a French, self -taught artist, who has been practicing drawing and painting since the age of twenty. He started with a figurative period before adopting abstraction as the main mode of expression. He experienced the most varied techniques and supports. He learned of engraving and printing in the Parisian workshop of the painter Henri Goetz. Many events mark out the different stages of his artistic journey. He participated in multiple individual and collective exhibitions in France or abroad. In 2015 he exhibited part of his work in China with a group of French artists. In 2017 he participated in the Fall Salon in Paris. He illustrated an edition for the publisher Fata Morgana in Montpellier in 2001.A artistic approach is part of a space in two dimensions: color and texture, gesture and drawing. He himself manufactures his colors based on pigments as well as his materials. His practice is based on several vectors: imprints, projections, embossing, collages. He mainly uses acrylic, sand, Chinese ink. Son inspiration is based on a permanent need to paint and finds his sources in nature or in the photography he also practices. It represents geometric or constructed forms or gestural projections based on breath and concentration. If painting remains non -figurative, it is an invitation to inner travel, it combines rigor and chance, real and imaginary, color and light spring a permanent source renewal and the expression of great freedom