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Daniel Pelletti is a Belgian painter born in 1948. He was the director of the Fine Arts School of Braine-l’Alleud for 14 years.

Emotionally attached to La Louvière, a city that appeared out of the blue after the Industrial Revolution, Daniel Pelletti has his roots there: his great-grand-mother used to live in a miner’s cottage in Braine-l’Alleud. This fondness also comes from the Walloon surrealism which emerged there in the interwar years. The slag heap is central to his work, as he sees in it the symbol of the Homo Faber and the creation of artworks of the mind and the body.

He studied in Mons with Gustave Camus, a friend of Jean Louvet who likes to describe himself as a writer constructed by social struggle. He confronts us with the relationships which lead to exploitation, the inertia before the division of societies, the gap between the dominants and the subordinates.