Cloud Painting

Benoit Maire

Cloud Painting, 2017195 x 150cmSign in to view price
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oil on canvas, wooden frameCroy Nielsen
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This abstract painting features a dreamlike, aquatic landscape with fluid, brushstroke-driven forms in muted shades of pink, green, and blue. The composition evokes a sense of movement and ambiguity, with loosely defined shapes that resemble underwater creatures or natural elements. The artist employs a distinctive technique, blending and layering the paint to create a hazy, atmospheric quality. This work likely reflects the artist's intention to capture the ephemeral and mysterious qualities of the natural world through an abstract, emotive visual language. ...

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Benoit Maire
Artist
Benoit Maire
B.1978, French

Benoît Maire is often described as a “visual philosopher”: his paintings, sculptures, films and installations draw on philosophy, geometry, mythology and sociology, among others. In a way, his practice is neither art, nor philosophy, but the ecstatic merge of the two. For instance, Maire is interested in French philosopher Jean-François Lyotard's concept of Differend which is dedicated to the conflict between the processes of saying and seeing. Maire works appear as layered puzzles of meaning which strive to exist outside language, expressed through pure visual forms. His surreal figurative paintings depict signs, such as clouds, horses, windows, lending one to form one’s own visual vocabulary. In his video works, Maire is upholding the tradition of French cinema, seen in filmographies of Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, or Agnès Varda. His pastel aesthetics is reminiest of avant-garde film, with theoretical underlyings landing close to Conceptual art. While staying true to the past, Maire’s work is radically intellectual in the present. ...

Benoit Maire: Artworks
Cloud Painting
Benoit Maire
Cloud Painting, 2016
150 x 100cm
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Benoit Maire
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64 x 47 x 3.5cm
Le Nez (The Nose)
Benoit Maire
Le Nez (The Nose), 2010
180 x 90 x 15cm
The Concept of Cordélia
Benoit Maire
The Concept of Cordélia, 2010
18 x 26 x 9cm
Socrate
Benoit Maire
Socrate, 2016
120 x 54 x 49cm
Main
Benoit Maire
Main, 2016
26 x 14 x 11cm
Castle
Benoit Maire
Castle, 2017
30 x 19 x 45cm
Castle
Benoit Maire
Castle, 2017
63 x 42 x 7cm
Willkür, Wiener Neueste
Benoit Maire
Willkür, Wiener Neueste, 2017
29 x 36 x 3.5cm
La menace, Paris-soir, 21 Octobre 1939
Benoit Maire
La menace, Paris-soir, 21 Octobre 1939, 2017
64 x 47 x 3.5cm
Cloud Painting
Benoit Maire
Cloud Painting, 2020
200 x 150cm
The Evening Chair
Benoit Maire
The Evening Chair, 2021
91 x 41 x 41cm
The Evening Chair
Benoit Maire
The Evening Chair, 2021
91 x 41 x 41cm
The Evening Chair
Benoit Maire
The Evening Chair, 2021
91 x 41 x 41cm
Cloud Painting
Benoit Maire
Cloud Painting, 2017
195 x 45cm
Cloud Painting
Benoit Maire
Cloud Painting, 2017
195 x 150cm
Cloud Painting
Benoit Maire
Cloud Painting, 2021
100 x 75cm
Cloud Painting
Benoit Maire
Cloud Painting, 2022
140 x 80cm
Croy Nielsen
Gallery
Croy Nielsen
Vienna

In 2016 Croy Nielsen moved from Berlin to Vienna, where it is located in the beletage apartment of a historical building in the 1st district. The gallery was founded by Oliver Croy (AT) and Henrikke Nielsen (DK). Artists such as Nina Beier, Marie Lund, and Benoît Maire, have been part of the program since its inception, and were later joined by Olga Balema, Georgia Gardner Gray, and Sandra Mujinga. Vienna-based artists include Ernst Yohji Jaeger, Joanna Woś, and Soshiro Matsubara. The gallery has strong ties to the Nordic region, representing several artists from the Scandinavian contries and regularly participating in fairs and projects in the area. ...

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