Edgard Pillet - Artist Info

About Edgard Pillet

  • Biography from Martin & Asso. & Hôtel des Ventes de Metz

    Edgard Pillet, French visual artist, is a prolific key player in the School of Paris, enrolling in art geometric abstraction and concrete art. Its rich and multifaceted work painted fifties to the 90 demonstrates an acute sense of color combined with a capacity of formal and lyrical invention that gives the whole a remarkable cohesion and a very personal poetic content.Constructive rigor and constant innovation, Pillet plays with the colors and shapes in a constant balance between passion and discipline.

    Having invented a theme, he analyzes all the potentialities and combines the previous themes variations in various modes of expression. In 1950 he founded with Jean Dewasne the Abstract Art Atelier in Paris at 14 rue de la Grande Chaumiere in Montparnasse who knows an international reputation, technical and philosophical conferences with players in the art world.

    In 1951, Edgard Pillet exhibited at the Galerie Denise René, and is the group's foundation "Space" which Pillet is responsible for communication (André Bloc is President and Felix del Marle General Secretary) .He then worked alongside István Beöthy, Sonia Delaunay, Jean Dewasne, Jean Gorin, Féliux Del Marle, Victor Vasarely, and became General Secretary of the journal art of Today, it appears ike a strong advocate of modern art and the concept of always news of the synthesis of the arts.

    He participated in numerous exhibitions including the Salon of New Realities in Paris 19657. His speech is based on the use of basic geometric figures and diagrammed as well as the opposition of full and empty, whereby the contrast of forms and reliefs producers rhythms Recognized internationally, his works are exhibited in several major international museums

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