Socrate

Benoit Maire

Socrate, 2016120 x 54 x 49cmSign in to view price
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Soap, wax, knife, plexi glas, metalCroy Nielsen
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The artwork features a minimalist, geometric composition with a translucent, pale yellow bust sculpture encased in a glass frame. The simple, monochromatic color scheme and clean lines create a serene, meditative atmosphere. The sculptural form, with its suggestion of a human presence, invites the viewer to ponder the nature of identity and the boundary between the material and the ephemeral. The artist's intention behind this piece may be to explore themes of introspection, objectification, and the intersection of the physical and the metaphysical. ...

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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
Le Nez (The Nose)
Socrate
Benoit MaireSocrate, 2016
120 x 54 x 49cm
Main
Benoit MaireMain, 2016
26 x 14 x 11cm
Castle
Benoit MaireCastle, 2017
30 x 19 x 45cm
Castle
Benoit MaireCastle, 2017
63 x 42 x 7cm
Willkür, Wiener Neueste
Cloud Painting
The Evening Chair
The Evening Chair
The Evening Chair
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Cloud Painting
Cloud Painting
Cloud Painting
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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