Pierre et Gilles : Clair-obscur

Pierre et Gilles have mastered a highly sophisticated portrait art, somewhere between photography and painting. They add a touch of humanity to the artificial beauty of celebrities, glorify ordinary people and enchant the world with superheroes plucked from mythology, the Bible and fairy tales. Nourished by art, film and all other forms of popular culture, these painted images fit perfectly into today’s world.

During an interview conducted by Sophie Duplaix, commissioner of the Museum of Ixelles and curator in chief at the Centre Pompidou, Pierre and Gilles are invited to relive their forty year career on the basis of artistic and personal images of the past and present.

Flagey, Museum van elsene