Pirotte Nathalie

I live in Brussels, I am a painter and painting teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts. The subject of my artworks is existentialist portrait, identity . In my paintings, the eyes are most often masked or unworked if you prefer.

A theme as the hybridization of commercial and popular images drawn from the media and copy-paste for the realization of portraits such as evocations.
The masks, here are made as pseudo-collages ( “pretended” cut collage but painted)
The mask is a recurring motif, symptom, anachronistic displaced thing. It is a conceptual reminiscence.
Mask is something, a form, that returns through cultures and ages and survives its own death.
There is something pathetic about the masks which are like “capable of anything”.
Painted as a collage in the artwork it creates a particular spatiality, enhancing the geology of the construction and the mutating aspect of someone as well.
Combining intimism with hyper-mediated production, abstraction and figuration, the gesturality of pasta and the almost watercolored descriptive form.it highlights the construction assembly of various faces, various aspects of someone.
From time to time a thick gestures of paint paste, traces; pink or black impasto, symbolic on a deliberately ve...

ENSAV la Cambre, Brussels-
Parsons School of design NYC

Solo shows
1990 Détour gallery, Namur, (B)
Ixelles museum, Brussels, (B)
1991, 1994 et 1995 Caractères gallery, Brussels, (B)
1992 et 1993 Pascal Retelet gallery, Charleroi, (B)
1996 D. Lang gallery, Dudelange, (GDL)
UCL bank, Strassen, (GDL)
1999 Esch-sur-Alzette Theater, Dada-cave, (GDL)
2001 Galerie Espace Blanche, Brussels, (B)
2005 Iselp, Brussels, (B)
2007 Frank Gerlitzki, Espace Apart, Luxembourg, « Peaux et fourrures », (GDL)
2010 Die kunstgalerie, Köln, (D)
2011 Die Kunstgalerie, Köln, (D)
La galerie Libertine, Bruxelles, (B)
2012 Mellting art gallery, Lille, (F)
2014 Diekunstgalerie, köln, (D)
2020 Husk gallery, Brussels (B)
2023 Cultural Center Alter Schlachthof (B)
Mêmetés, husk gallery , Brussels
2024: solo show Husk gallery, Luxemburg Art week 2024

recent groupshows
2018 Mycorhizes, La Madeleine (Lille, F)
Artlab, Benjamin Eck Gallery Munich (D)

2019 Truc Troc (2005 -06 -08 -09 -10- 11-13-14-15-16-17)
Beyond the bushes ,Art Sablon (B)
Artlab B Eck Munich (D)

2020 : Hôte gallery, Célebration
Hôte gallery, Déconfiture
Hôte galle...