Pierre Clemens (artist)
Pierre Clemens, born in Brussels on 06 July 1970, is a Belgian visual artist and composer. Biography Having chosen an artistic path at an early age, Pierre Clemens began drawing in his teens before studying at the Brussels Academy of Fine Arts (Drawing studio 1992-1996). Parallel to his training, he became interested in video and produced a series of works in this medium. In 1995, during an Erasmus stay at the School of Fine Arts in Athens, Greece, he came across a series of architectural plans dating from the 1950s-1960s that were being thrown away. For him, they became a source of intense research in the form of a palimpsest linked to the theme of landscape as an object of thought and a vector for experimentation. This ongoing research has been summarized in a book that covers 25 years of artistic disciplines. Exhibitions His first solo exhibition took place in Brussels in 1996 (Maison de l'art actuel des Chartreux - MAAC), followed by other exhibitions in Belgium and abroad : Center Georges Pompidou, Paris France 1994, Créer d'après la ville; Free Space, NICC, Antwerp Belgium 1999; Galerie B-312, Montreal Canada 2000; Videoformes 2009, Clermond-Ferrand, France; Last day of magic, Venice