Cloud Painting

Benoit Maire

Cloud Painting, 2021100 x 75cm13000 USD
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MaterialGallery
oil on canvasCroy Nielsen
Description
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This abstract artwork features a striking interplay of colors and textures. The composition is divided into four quadrants, each showcasing a distinct visual language. Vibrant streaks of pink, green, and blue cascade across the canvases, creating a sense of movement and energy. The predominant dark silhouette at the center appears both solid and ethereal, evoking a sense of mystery. The artist's bold, experimental techniques, including dripping and layering, contribute to the overall expressive and atmospheric quality of the piece. This work likely explores themes of the natural world, emotions, and the human experience through a contemporary, abstract lens. ...

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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
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Le Nez (The Nose)
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Socrate
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Main
Benoit MaireMain, 2016Price on Request
Castle
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Willkür, Wiener Neueste
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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. ...