Lionel Perrotte, known as Lionel, was born in Paris in 1949. He began painting at the age of fourteen, and throughout his career dedicated to art, he built up a considerable body of work, combining painting and engraving. The artist feels deeply heir to the moral rigor of his father, a non-practicing Protestant humbled by Creation.In 1986, Lionel set up his studio in Belleville, Paris. He made his first carborundum engravings at the famous Pasnic workshop in Paris. Here he met many artists,...

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  Biography of   Lionel

  Lionel Perrotte, known as Lionel, was born in Paris in 1949. He began painting at the age of fourteen, and throughout his career dedicated to art, he built up a considerable body of work, combining painting and engraving. The artist feels deeply heir to the moral rigor of his father, a non-practicing Protestant humbled by Creation.
  In 1986, Lionel set up his studio in Belleville, Paris. He made his first carborundum engravings at the famous Pasnic workshop in Paris. Here he met many artists, including Max Papart, who encouraged him, and Kijno, who sponsored him. Jacques Boulan became his exclusive dealer, producing numerous editions of etchings for him. In 1992, the crisis in the art market and his tumultuous friendship with Jacques Boulan led to an end to their collaboration. Lionel signed an exclusive worldwide contract with "Art Selection" in Zurich, which lasted over 10 years, ending in 2005. That same year, Lionel met Laurier Dubé, who commissioned numerous editions of his prints, helping to extend his reputation across the Atlantic; he had several exhibitions in the United States, and became a permanent artist at the James Gallery in Pittsburgh.Lionel's powerful imagination opens windows onto different time-spaces, taking the eye from the microcosm to the infinitely large. The artist is interested in the interior of things and beings, in the pulsation of worlds, and seeks to build a body of work that allows us to see through the heart, thus linking Man to the sacred. He will produce numerous series with evocative titles: Tour de Babel, Lacérations, Silences, Fécondations, Drapés, Matières, Mémoires, Silhouettes, Nocturnes, Fusions, Fluides, Sanctuaires, Horizons, Printemps, Rivages, Lointains. After returning to figurative art in 2017 and 2018, with the freedom and style inherited from his many techniques, he returned to Abstraction, working in turn on two new cycles entitled "Les Lointains" and "Les Secrets", whose mysteries only Art can reveal. In his final years of creation, he returned to a theme born in the 80s, "Les Silences", which he had already revisited in 2009 and 2011 and which are, as he put it, his sonatas, his poems, his whispered confidences.For almost 40 years, his work was exhibited at leading contemporary art fairs in Austria, Belgium, China, France, Germany, Japan, Korea, Moldavia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the USA. More than 100 solo exhibitions testify to his worldwide success. Three retrospectives have been devoted to him, in Angers in 1996, Zürich in 1999 and Levallois in 2008. A victim of Covid-19, the artist died in December 2020 in Angers.
  
  

  

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