The "Scree" series, 2006. This is the new work released by Cobra painter Alechinsky, aged 85 this year (solo exhibition at Lelong Gallery in Paris, Dec 16, 2006 to Feb 10, 2007), titled "Scree". This poetic series of 24 works of varying sizes features mountain-pyramid forms as the main body, sometimes framed within black comic images, and sometimes under painted forms. Within sensual abstract forms and metaphorical imagery, he steadily and powerfully constructs his whimsical world; these huts, mounds, and scree forms originate from the artist's childhood memories and memories of monuments in Waterloo and scree in Borinage.

Alechinsky (born in Brussels in 1922) is a prolific painter. Since moving to Japan in 1955, he has worked like a calligrapher, laying paper flat on the ground, squatting down to work, and attacking the canvas from all sides. This technique recalls Pollock's dripping, after which he began painting with Chinese brushes on cotton or Xuan paper, later mounted on canvas. His paintings are mostly constructed through lively line sketches (fluid, chaotic, irregular, etc.) and graffiti, sometimes mixed with writing. Agile, flexible lines dance across his entire canvas, interpreting an overflowing emotion that has continuously renewed itself since 1947 to the present day.