Biographie de Pierre Delorme
Pierre Delorme studied painting and architecture at the National Academy of the Fine Arts in Paris from 1965 to 1973. After a period at studio Chapelain-Midy, he took an apprenticeship under Jean Bertholle at his Art Monumental studio. He also studied design with Otello Zavaroni, a renowned professor of architecture, in the company of Jacques-Philippe Tournier, the sculptor André Greck and the artist Camille Hilaire.
He was awarded Silver Medal in the Antiquity Prize for painters in 1967. He became a DPLG architect in 1973, and was awarded a bursary by the Japanese government to complete a doctoral thesis in Tokyo on the construction of buildings resistant to earthquakes. As resident architect at the University of Tunis (1975-1976), he designed and constructed the Sidi Abdeslem mosque and numerous other buildings.
He then became architect for the village of Ain Chock in Casablanca. From 1980, his humorous cartoons and comic strips have appeared in a number of publications, including Pilote, Lui and Dayori. As DPLG architect and comic book author he was made a Laureate by the French Academy of the Arts, Sciences and Letters for his contribution to the understanding of Japanese culture. In 1995 he decided to return to painting after 25 years of producing black and white sketches.
From 2000, he devoted himself to abstract painting. Although a new challenge, Pierre Delorme was of the belief that everything had not yet been said and was looking to open up a new path in the fine arts. Alongside his abstract painting, he continued to draw, describing it as, "A passion that I like to say is indispensable if one wishes to become accomplished as an artist." His favourite subjects are horses, bulls, trees and nudes that he never tires of creating from chalk, charcoal or ink.
Sculpture also remains a passion for him as both artist and teacher, giving him the opportunity to give a different life to the innumerable sketches of his favourite subjects: a charging bull or horses exercising their prowess. Besides his activities as an artist, Pierre Delorme has written more twenty books of which half concern Japan (essays, novels and short stories).
