Programming

I tell him: "I draw the body. One summer I drew the pelvis, another the shoulder blade... No, I didn't have a model, other than my shoulder blade and that of my lover, its relief in the back. back of childhood, my pelvis and its dance, and the hollow of my lover's pelvis, and the memory of pieces of skeleton or didactic boards. Later, a friend gave me a scapula. Another summer, I drew the head, the shoulder and its extension. then sculpted this new body in clay and plaster... plaster ... imbued with the television image of a child emaciated by hunger. by hunger. Another summer, something between the plant and the body... from the gesture of ink on paper... Other bodies too." *

* The text is based on excerpts from Pédagogie de la forme and Dans la ville un homme qui marche.

Jean-François Pirson was born in Belgium in 1950. A daily poet, architect and Doctor of Fine Arts (University of Barcelona), he draws, writes, travels and teaches at the Institut Supérieur d'Architecture Lambert Lombard (Liège). Between 1979 and 1983, he gave private classes in movement, dance and voice. Since 1983, he has directed construction and analysis workshops in Belgium, France, Spain and Quebec. He defines his pedagogical work in terms of a Laboratory for experimenting with forms and forces. This Laboratory is a proposal - a desire - to create an ateleir open to all disciplines in the visual arts, whether in terms of practical or theoretical approaches ("First learn that one thing feeds on another").