Archives March 2022

Jean Janssis - Photographer

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Jean Janssis was born in 1953 in Ans (Liège). He obtained a degree in Romance philology in 1975 and was awarded the agrégé de l'Enseignement supérieur in 1976.
A self-taught photographer, he passed the State Jury in 1986. He is professor of semiology and photography at the Ecole supérieure des Arts Saint-Luc in Liège until 2017.
He makes his prints with gum bichromate on large etching papers. His favourite themes are the body and the portrait. The density of the prints, the paper and the pigments give his photographs a real sensuality, an almost tactile thickness that resonates with the emotions and depth of the images.
He has had numerous solo and group exhibitions: Liège, Hasselt, Namur, Stavelot, Arlon, Genval, Charleroi, Brussels, Ostend, Antwerp, Arles, Paris, Toulouse, Eindhoven, Rotterdam, Brescia, Venice, Rome, Milan, London, Lausanne, New York, Santiago de Chile, etc.
His work is part of numerous private and public collections: Mep (Maison Européenne de la Photographie), Musée de l'Elysée in Lausanne, Musée de la Photographie in Charleroi, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Museo Ken Damy (Brescia), Communauté Française, FNAC, ...
He is also the author of several books: Etreintes de Terre, Silent Walk, Exsudat, Les corps impressionnés (to be published in spring 2022).

Jordan ESSER - Photographer

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Jordan Esser was born in 1993 in Liege and completed his higher education at the Institut Saint Luc Liege from 2014 to 2017.
Since 2017 he has been working as a freelance photographer. In parallel, he took the opportunity to work as an assistant for one of his former teachers, Gregor Collienne, which opened the doors to assisting in the advertising and fashion industry. This gave him the opportunity to perfect his training and sharpen his photographic eye.
In December 2021, he exhibited for the first time at the Plantasia cultural house in Lisbon. It is with great emotion that he will hold his first exhibition in Belgium, together with his former teacher Jean Janssis who accompanied him during the development of his artistic vision.
He sees photography as an experiment, a search for the happy accident. Today his style is in perpetual mutation and evolves according to his desires. Contrary to the past, he no longer aims for his photography to be meaningful, he now devotes himself to the search for strict aestheticism.

Inauguration of the Maurice Pirenne memorial panel

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The Legros Auction House is pleased to participate in the tourist route of the illustrious citizens of Verviers. This project, supported by the "Verviers Ambitions" city centre management, has its roots in the publication of 2 volumes New Verviers biographies published under the direction of Freddy Joris and Louis-Bernard Koch, which highlights those who were or are personalities of Verviers in various fields such as culture or entrepreneurship.

On 5 March, a commemorative panel will be unveiled on the façade of our school. We have logically chosen to honour the famous painter Maurice Pirenne leader of the school known as the Verviers intimists.

As an auction house, the Hôtel des ventes Legros has always been keen to promote art in general and that of our region in particular, which is why we have opened an art gallery to complement our activities.

Exhibitions of contemporary art will be held there as well as retrospectives of local artists.

Verviers was and still is a land of artists. It is good to be reminded of this and not to let these painters, whose identity is so particular, fall into oblivion. They have their place alongside the great names in the history of art, proof of which is that Georges Le Brun is already exhibited at the Musée d'Orsay and I am sure that Maurice Pirenne will soon join them.

Promoting art is also participating in the dynamism of our city and it is in this spirit that we are proud to participate in the Verviers Ambitions initiative.