Biografia
Pierre Skira (Paris, 1938), son of the famous Swiss publisher Albert Skira, is a pastellist, novelist and a great passionate of books, which has inevitably linked him to the literary and artistic world since his childhood.
At the beginning of his artistic career, around 1960, he worked with major oil paintings, but he later began working with pastels, a technique that made him famous. Skira developed a fascination for still lives, especially those depicting books on black backgrounds, thus recalling the studies of still lives of the 17th century.
He first exhibited solo in 1964 in Paris and has continued to exhibit nationally and internationally since then. He also received various awards, in 1967 he won the prize of the Paris Biennale, followed in 1997 by the international award of contemporary art Duque de Valverde de Alaya Valva in Monte-Carlo.
Recently, the artist’s work has taken an abstract turn, taking on his early works and creating pieces such as the Baruk series. These works are made up of large blocks of pastel colors emerging from a black background, where colors juxtapose, connecting with each other and allowing the author more freedom in the use of color than in his previous figurative works, as well as playing with space, shapes and volume.