Un art de vivre - Michel Petiniot

Opening night : 14.04.2023 at 6 PM
Exhibition: 15.04.2023 > 5.11.2023

Michel Petiniot (Liège, 1963) is now the dean of the Créahm, where he has regularly spent time since 1989. For over thirty years, from the start of his artistic career,  he has deployed a graphic and pictorial universe based on Bruegel the Elder’s etchings and Van Gogh’s paintings. Not in terms of pattern or style, but through his strokes and endless repetition, the pure and simple emotion of drawing and painting. Since the dawn of time, Michel Petiniot has drawn in the style of etching; gathering strokes on paper, material, clay or whatever, he draws as if walking, pacing back and forth, free of the necessity of thinking, speaking or even fantasizing, secretly meditating, repeating and reinventing ad libitum – with such grace, rigor, modesty – his lines, imprints and marks. These are the works of the Honorable Michel Petiniot, the Chinese painter with an eccentric approach, without questions or answers, thwarting our poor habits and boring into our eyes like a dream about existing.

L'événement d'être là - Des lieux pour exister #2

Opening night : 14.04.2023 at 6 PM
Exhibition: 15.04.2023 > 5.11.2023

From spring to autumn 2023, the Trinkhall will continue its reflection on places, with the collection opening up several new paths of meaning and emotion.  Here is what we could possibly say about it: a place has nothing to do with a territory. It is a space that we hold on to. Yet, is it really a space in the usual meaning of the term, or a façade of multiple dimensions which, we do not know how, becomes attached to our eye and sticks to our skin. Something that does not really exist outside of us – but it does! – in other words, that does not exist outside the relationship that we maintain with it, something that we are moving towards which, concurrently is moving towards us in exact symmetry. Or instead, something that sends us back to the condition of our existence, but as if stripped of the painful feeling of being oneself; an existence that, by the organization of places, when decluttered of ourselves, is free and more open. A place is the event of being there. It does not belong to you, me or anybody. We do not possess any places: sometimes they come to us… How lucky!

With works from : Adolpho Avril, Silvano Balbiani, Samuel Cariaux, Anne De Gelas, Pierre De Peet, Fréderic Deschamps, Julien Detiège, Aymeric Dodeigne, Johan Geenens, Irène Gérard, Giga, Josef Hofer, Alexis Lippstreu, Ronny MacKenzie, Alain Meert, Bertha Otoya, Salvatore Pirchio, Maurice Pirenne, Bob Verschueren, Pascale Vincke and Andréa Wellens.