Pierre Bellot — À propos — Slash Paris

Graduated from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris with honors. His work has been exhibited in New York (56 Henry), Avignon (Collection Lambert), Paris ( Palais des Beaux-Arts, La Villette, Progress Gallery…) and Berlin (Galerie Noah Klink). In 2019-2020, he was a member of the French Academy in Madrid, at Casa de Velazquez.

“His work revolves around the central questions of staging and image construction. In his paintings, he organizes his subjects — taken from various photographic sources or personal archives — to create fictions whose composition obeys its own rules and creates a new meaning. By ridding each element of its original functionality, a formal game is established where the important thing becomes the path that crosses the work and associates each part to the whole. The image thus appears as the receptacle of inner visions. The subject is a bait, the starting point of an artificial structure in which the artist comes to trap the reality of the starting motif.”

Cécile Debray, Directrice du musée Picasso, Paris in Viva Villa, Edition 2020, « Les vies minuscules »