Arthur Unger, Fire Painting On Copper, Luxembourg

Arthur Unger was born in Luxembourg on July 11, 1932. Fascinated by Africa and its cultures, he spent several years in the former Belgian Congo from 1956 and later traveled through various West African countries. His work is strongly influenced by his African experience in contact with traditions and unusual landscapes. In 1970, he developed an unprecedented technique of painting by fire on thin sheets of electrolytic copper, which he called "pyrochemiograms". Arthur Unger is an artist of matter and painter of informal expression and in 1970 in Paris he met the great art critic Michel Tapié. This one exposes it and devotes an art monograph to him in 1980. In 1983, he met the Parisian art historian Ante Glibota who organized his major exhibitions, including his retrospective museum positions in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen. He also devotes a few books to him and especially a bibliophilic book with the Spanish poet and playwright Fernando Arrabal. Arthur Unger has had more than 80 exhibitions (Europe and People's Republic of China). In 1974 he received the Prix du Grand-Duc in Luxembourg and in 2017 the Phoenix Art Prize in China. He lives and works in Luxembourg