Pierre Guichard Laeuli

I'm a French painter and engraver, born 1954, living en Chile for 12 years. The required level of skill to make good etchings allowed me to become a more demanding paintor. I like the technical challenges of painting and engraving.
I have been teaching painting in Chile for 10 years.
Figuration for etching, hyperrealism and expressionist abstraction for painting are what I prefer to do.
Engraving: My work is done in at least two stages: a plate for the image support, and another for tattoos. This superposition allows me to create encounters between cultures that have never met (example: the mask of Tutankamon with Ashentis tattoos).
My goal tends to renew the view that the viewer has on the various elements.

Abstract painting: The Chilean culture made me know runes, which have lost their original meanings and acquired here a magical dimension. I abstractly report the magical meaning of these runes.

Hyperrealism: In my landscape paintings (I fell in love with pampas and Chilean deserts) I try to erase the effects specific to photography rather than trying to approach a photographic rendering. I do not want people saying "it looks like a picture" but "it looks like reality". But as nature does not care much about pictoria...

Master of arts in Paris 1 (La Sorbonne, 1990-1994).
Studies of Drawing and Engraving in L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts of Versailles (1994, 2000).

1999 "Les artistes dans la rue", Engraving, Versailles, France.
2000 "Salon d'Automne de Versailles", Engravings, Versailles, France.
2002 "Beaux-Arts de Versailles", engravings, Versailles, France.
2003 Ateliers portes ouvertes de Cachan, Engravings, Cachan, France.
2003 Ateliers portes ouvertes de Paris XVIIIè "Israël-Palestine", Engravings, Paris, France.
2003 "Biennale de gravure de Saint-Mandé", Engravings, Saint-Mandé, France.
2004 "Les graveurs de Circé", Engravings, Paris, Frane.
2005 "Encre et papiers", Biennale de la gravure, Engravings, Saint-Mandé, France.
2008 "Trace-Atlanticó", engravings, Antofagasta, Chile.
2008 "Visiones partiales", paintings, Antofagasta, Chile.
2008 "Rincón de mi ciudad ", paintings, Antofagasta, Chile.
2009 Universidad del Norte, paintings, Antofagasta, Chile.
2009 "Rincón de mi ciudad", paintings, Antofagasta, Chile (first prize).
2009 "Human Condition", Engravings, Theater of Antofagasta, Chile.
2010 Galery Jacalanda, Engravings, Antofagasta, Chile.
2010 "Human Condition", Engravings, Casino Enjoy of Antofagasta, Chile.
2010 – 2013 Exhibition in my galery L'Eau-forte, Vicuña, Chile.
2016 Permanent exhibition at Aldea Elquina, Vicuña, Chile.