Emotion in the line with Pierre Albasser
The medical community agrees that art is good for health. In fact, viewing artworks does our brains good: it awakens our empathy, stimulates our emotions and motor skills, and restores our self-confidence. What’s more, creativity, inventiveness and artistic production are a guarantee of quality active longevity. Pierre Albasser and the duo he forms with Gudrun, the GEHA printmaker and postal artist, are living proof of this. The strength of their creative gestures continues to blossom over the years.
When tracing, scribbling and penning sublimate everyday life and reveal an artist's soul
Spotted by Gérard Sendrey, founder of the Musée de la Création Franche in Bègles, Pierre Albasser exhibited for the first time in 1998. Pierre draws on recycled packaging characters and a rich joyful bestiary that have since found a wide audience of art lovers. The publisher “Le temps qu’il fait” has devoted a monograph to him.
His work can be found at the Musée de la Création Franche in Bègles-Bordeaux, at MANAS in Laval, at the Musée Cécile Sabourdy in Limousin and in numerous private collections in France and abroad.
A daily life based on creative gestures
Every day, in their studio offices, they work on their creations, forming a well-oiled, complementary duo:
Pierre, with Gudrun’s help, stocks packaging on which he draws with pen, colored pencil, printer’s ink, nail polish… Every day before dinner, Pierre delivers a finished drawing for the ritual vernissage. Once revealed, the drawing is displayed on the board for the current decade. Every 10 days, the board is emptied for a new decade. Vernissage and decade allow the best drawings to be selected. Gudrun then archives them according to size, technique and artistic quality.
Gudrun, who has long worked as an engraver under the name GEHA, now turns her hand to mail art, photography and the creation of sensitive compositions combining elements signed Pierre Albasser and GEHA.
Pierre Albasser's Outsiderart tribe
His distinctive style is instantly apparent. His characters, turned towards us and look at our world with curious, naive, sometimes sarcastic or amused eyes.
The combination of characters and motifs weaves landscapes and scenes of life reminiscent of mythologies close to the primitive arts. His works take us back to the origins of humanity. As in cave art, they feature cracked walls, round eyes, black outlines and thick shapes.
Retrospective on 30 years of drawing
The Cécile Sabourdy garden museum, currently undergoing expansion work, has chosen to honor his work by dedicating a seven-month retrospective to the inauguration of its new rooms at the end of 2025.
Pierre Albasser’s singular art remains affordable, so don’t miss out.
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