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Benoît Maire
Benoît Maire, a French artist born in 1978, can be described as a visual philosopher. His practice draws on disciplines such as history, art history, philosophy, psychoanalysis and mathematics. Belonging to a generation that has renewed the practice of conceptual art, he deliberately overcomes the separation between idea and object, nature and culture.

Benoît Maire’s work is a puzzle in which the enigmatic quality of the objects and images - whether manufactured by him or by others - and their disconcerting juxtaposition questions their uncertain origin. In this sense, the artist’s work is fundamentally a collage practice, where he arranges images, objects, documents or texts, following an underlying range of references that are the intellectual foundations of his approach. The unique relationship that Benoît Maire weaves between plastic form and philosophy in the wake of conceptual art makes him one of the most important artists of his generation on the European scene.

Several institutions have devoted solo exhibitions to Benoît Maire, including the Bielefelder Kunstverein (Germany), CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the Kunsthalle Mulhouse and the FRAC Aquitaine in Bordeaux (France), the David Roberts Foundation in London and Spike Island in Bristol (UK), the Vleeshal in Middelburg (Netherlands), the Fondazione Guiliani in Rome (Italy). In 2018, an important monograph was published. Winner of the Fondation d’entreprise Pernod Ricard Prize in 2010, Benoît Maire was also in residency at the Palais de Tokyo and at the Villa Medici in Rome.

Works

Peinture de nuages
Benoît Maire
Peinture de nuages
Benoît Maire
Icône
Benoît Maire
Image du futur actuel
Benoît Maire
PL9 N Pierrot
Benoît Maire

Gallery exhibitions

Exhibitions

In Hawaii
Les Tanneries, Amilly (France)
2020 - 2021
Thebes
Spike Island, Bristol (United Kingdom)
2018
Thèbes
Capc, Bordeaux (France)
2018
George Slays the Dragon
Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld (Germany)
2016
LETRE
La verrière Hermès, Brussels (Belgium)
2014
The Object of Criticism
De Vleeshal, Middelburg (The Netherlands)
2011

Projects

Absences, mues et macules
Ignasi Aballí, Léa Belooussovitch, Marc Buchy, Lieven De Boeck, Hreinn Friðfinnsson, Ellen Harvey, Rinko Kawauchi, Nicolás Lamas, Benoît Maire, mountaincutters, Cornelia Parker, Claudio Parmiggiani, Benoit Platéus, Jorge Méndez Blake, Christopher Orr, Evariste Richer, Solène Rigou, José María Sicilia, Namsal Siedlecki, Thu Van Tran, Chaim van Luit, Xie Lei
3 fois la mesure
Benoît Maire, Cédric Moullier, Alain Lestié, Jessica Hans, Nicolas Fenouillat, Imogen Cunningham, Etel Adnan, åbäke, Evariste Richer