Julie Béna

Mask, 202227 x 21 x 4cm2500 EUR

Details

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glazed ceramicNiCOLETTiLondon

Description

Human-crafted. AI-refined.

This abstract sculpture consists of a vibrant, red-hued form with organic, asymmetrical contours. The heavily textured surface creates a sense of dynamism and movement, with visible brushstrokes and uneven, molded shapes. The piece appears to be crafted using a combination of materials, potentially featuring a mix of clay, plaster, or other sculptural media. The overall style suggests an expressionist or abstract expressionist approach, where the artist has prioritized the expressive quality of the work over any representational elements. The artwork's raw, visceral nature and use of bold, commanding color likely reflect the artist's intention to evoke a powerful emotional response from the viewer. ...

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Artist

Julie Béna

1982

Julie Béna was born in 1982 in Paris, France, and currently lives and works between Prague and Paris. The work of Julie Béna is made up of an eclectic set of references, combining contemporary and ancient literature, high and low art, humor and seriousness, parallel times and spaces. Comprising sculpture, installation, film, and performance, her work seems to often float in an infinite vacuum, unfolding against a fictional backdrop where everything is possible. Over the past years, Béna has developed a range of personal cosmologies in which she stages seemingly banal characters and objects that have enigmatic conversations and interactions with each other. From Pantopon Rose – a character taken from William S. Burroughs’ ‘Naked Lunch’ –, to Miss None and Mister Peanut – a disembodied floating wig and the iconic monocled anthropomorphic peanut –, Béna lends her characters a singular agency and voice, which defines them by what they are not. ...