Nel corso degli ultimi anni Will Benedict ha lavorato in maniera professionale come fotografo, pittore e turista.
Nel mese di aprile Benedict presenterà presso la galleria Giò Marconi Bonjour Tourist, nuovi lavori realizzati attraverso la combinazione di gouaches e fotografie sagomate, montate su speciali cornici in alluminio e foamcore.
Organizzati in distinte serie, corrispondono alle categorie nominali di giornalisti televisivi, cartoline, bandiere, coppie a cena e nazioni che sbirciano attraverso finestre.
Se paragoniamo l’esperienza alla stimolazione estetica vissuta guardando la televisione, questi lavori permettono di guardare due, forse tre canali nello stesso momento.
Il brusio delle cose, i luoghi, i cibi e le persone sono fossilizzati in lucidi passepartout di foamcore abbondantemente dipinti, congelando la tristezza del turista e del pubblico (la stessa cosa) in una lieve miscela ipomaniacale di euphoria e irritabilità.
Congelati insieme a tutto e tutti, all’interno di questi passepartout ci sono dipinti su tela che raffigurano un nazionalismo di seni e peni che vende cibo al ristorante, biglietti aerei per località esotiche, muri o francobolli.
Le relazioni sociali sono stimolanti, incarnano la crescita, la distruzione e la riformulazione delle idee. Nei dipinti di Benedict, attraverso la costante rimediazione, l’unico elemento immutabile è la moltiplicazione dei livelli interpellativi.
In occasione dell’inaugurazione sarà possibile vedere le fotografie a grandezza naturale che popolano il suo lavoro e assistere alla performance di Lucy Dodd che romperà l’atmosferà. Con un’attenzione illimitata, la pittura diventa uno zoom perpetuo che genera e penetra senza fine i livelli ricorsivi di un dilemma falsamente faustiano – lavorare o non lavorare, cenare o dipingere, cena, dipinto, cena, dipinto, etc. Come un primo appuntamento metropolitano in cui ingrassiamo, parliamo, subiamo tendenze nazionalistiche e vediamo a fatica cosa può essere fatto.
Mathieu Malouf
Will Benedict (1978), vive e lavora a Vienna.
Ha studiato all’Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, e alla Staedelschule, Frankfurt am Mein. I lavori di Will Benendict sono stati recentemente presentati nelle personali presso Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurtam Main, 2010, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, 2009 e in occasione delle collettive ‘Flaca’, a cura di Tom Humphreys, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main. 2011, ‘Will Benedict, Nikolas Gambaroff, Carissa Rodriguez’, Renwick Gallery, New York, 2011 e ‘Before and After’, Balice
Hertling, Paris, 2010.
Per il 2012 sono previste una nuova personale presso la Meyer Kainer e la partecipazione in veste di curatore presso la Andrew Kreps Gallery di New York.
Dal 2008 si occupa insieme a Lucie Stahl dello spazio espositivo Pro Choice, Vienna.
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Inaugurazione: venerdì 13 aprile 2012 dalle 19.00 alle 22.00 (in occasione della notte bianca di MiArt)
Ore 20.00 performance di Lucy Dodd
Dal 14 aprile al 16 giugno 2012.
Dal martedì al sabato 10.00-13.00, 15.00-19.00
PressOffice: Cristina Pariset T.+39 024812584 F.+39 024812486 Cell.+39 3485109589 cristina.pariset@libero.it
Per ricevere informazioni e immagini della mostra, inviare richiesta a: info@giomarconi.com o utilizzare il link: http://fileshare.giomarconi.com/public/WB_cartella_stampa.zip
For the past several years Will Benedict has been working professionally as a photographer, painter and tourist. This April at Gio' Marconi, Benedict will present Bonjour Tourist, new works relying on various combinations of gouache paintings and cut-out studio portraits, mounted in customized aluminium and foamcore frames. Organized in distinct series, they fulfill the nominal categories of newscasters, postcards, flags, couples having dinner and nations peeking in through windows. Compared to the kind of aesthetic stimulation experienced while watching TV the works are like watching two, maybe three channels at the same time.
In Benedict's works the buzzing clamor of things, places, foods and people are fossilized in lavishly painted waxed foamcore passepartout, freezing the sadness of the tourist and audience (the same thing) into an ever so slight hypomanic mixture of euphoria and irritability. Frozen along with everyone and everything in these passepartouts are paintings on canvas depicting a tits and penis nationalism that sells food at restaurants, plane ticket to exotic locals, walls or stamps.
Social relations are stimulating, they embody growth, destruction and a reformulation of ideas. Throughout the constant remediation in Benedict's paintings, the only immutable thing is the multiplication of interpellative layers. At the opening, more guests will join the life-size photographs that populate the work and a performance by Lucy Dodd will pierce the atmosphere. With limitless attention, painting is an infinite zoom in effect that endlessly generates and penetrates the recursive layers of a falsely faustian dilemma—work or not, dine or paint, dinner, painting, dinner, painting, etc. Like a metropolitan first date where we get fat, talk, suffer nationalistic tendencies and wade through what can be done about them.
Mathieu Malouf
Will Benedict (b. 1978 Los Angeles, lives and works in Vienna) studied at Art Center College of Design, Pasadena and Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main. Recent solo exhibitions include Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt
am Main (2010) and Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna (2009) and the group exhibitions ‘Flaca’, curated by Tom Humphreys, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main (2011), ‘Will Benedict, Nikolas Gambaroff, Carissa Rodriguez’, Renwick Gallery, New York (2011) and ‘Before and After’, Balice Hertling, Paris (2010).
Upcoming solo exhibitions include Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna (2012).
In July, 2012 Benedict will curate an exhibition focused on portraiture at Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York.
Since 2008 he runs the exhibition space Pro Choice with Lucie Stahl.
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Opening: Tuesday, 13th April 2012, from 19.00 til 22.00
From 20.00 performance by Lucy Dodd
From April 14th till June 16th, 2012.
From Tuesday to Saturday 10.00-13.00, 15.00-19.00
PressOffice: Cristina Pariset T.+39 024812584 F.+39 024812486 Cell.+39 3485109589 cristina.pariset@libero.it
For further information please contact: info@giomarconi.com http://fileshare.giomarconi.com/public/WB_cartella_stampa.zip
Bonjour Tourist (Lucie & Markus), 2012
gouache on canvas and foamcore, archival inkjet print, aluminium, glass, tape
108 x 155 cm
performance view: Lucy Dodd, Giò Marconi, 2012
Bonjour Tourist (Lucie & Markus Yellow Model), 2012
photograph
16 x 21 cm
Ed.: 1/5
installation view: Bonjour Tourist, Giò Marconi, 2012
Lucy Dodd
Piano Pond Pipe, 2010
piano, plywood, copper, cement, sand, pond water, algae, goose down
variable dimensions
The Rock of Gibraltar, 2012
gouache on canvas, foamcore, aluminium, glass, tape
108 x 155 cm
Lucy, dream of stone, 2012
gouache on canvas, ink on foamcore, aluminium, glass, tape
108 x 155 cm
Bonjour Tourist (Josefin & Catharina), 2012
gouache on canvas and foamcore, archival inkjet print, aluminium, glass, tape
108 x 155 cm
Lucie, see you when I see you, 2012
gouache on canvas, ink on foamcore, aluminium, glass, tape
108 x 155 cm
installation view: Bonjour Tourist, Giò Marconi, 2012
Lucy Dodd
Piano Pond Pipe, 2010
piano, plywood, copper, cement, sand, pond water, algae, goose down
variable dimensions
Untitled, 2012
gouache on canvas and foamcore, aluminium, glass, tape
59,5 x 84 cm
Josefin, read that bitch, 2012
gouache on canvas, ink on foamcore, aluminium, glass, tape
108 x 155 cm
Untitled, 2012
gouache on canvas and foamcore, aluminium, glass, tape
59,5 x 84 cm
installation view: Bonjour Tourist, Giò Marconi, 2012
Paris, 2012
gouache on canvas, foamcore, aluminium, glass, tape
155 x 108 cm
Day Traitor (Doris), 2012
gouache on canvas and foamcore, archival inkjet print, aluminium, glass, tape
108 x 155 cm
Day Traitor (Doris), 2012
photograph
16 x 21 cm
Ed.: 1/5
installation view: Bonjour Tourist, Giò Marconi, 2012
Black Friday, 2012
gouache on canvas and foamcore, aluminium, glass, tape
108 x 155 cm
Orange China, 2012
gouache on canvas and foamcore, aluminium, glass, tape
108 x 155 cm
Chinese Flag, 2012
gouache on canvas and foamcore, aluminium, glass, tape
108 x 155 cm
installation view: Bonjour Tourist, Giò Marconi, 2012
Bonjour Sadness, 2012
gouache on canvas and foamcore, aluminium, glass, tape
108 x 155 cm
Pisa, 2012
gouache on canvas, foamcore, aluminium, glass, tape
155 x 108 cm
Day Traitor (Henning Model), 2012
photograph
16 x 21 cm
Ed.: 1/5
Corporate Italian Twilight, 2012
gouache on canvas and foamcore, archival inkjet print, aluminium, glass, tape
108 x 155 cm
Tap Water, 2012
gouache on canvas, foamcore, aluminium, glass, tape
155 x 108 cm
Corporate Mexican Twilight, 2012
gouache on canvas and foamcore, archival inkjet print, aluminium, glass, tape
108 x 155 cm
Bonjour Tourist (Thao & Jasmin Model), 2012
photograph
16 x 21 cm
Ed.: 1/5
A Room with a View, 2012
gouache on canvas and foamcore, photograph, aluminium, glass, tape
84 x 59,5 cm
Nel mese di aprile Benedict presenterà presso la galleria Giò Marconi Bonjour Tourist, nuovi lavori realizzati attraverso la combinazione di gouaches e fotografie sagomate, montate su speciali cornici in alluminio e foamcore.
Organizzati in distinte serie, corrispondono alle categorie nominali di giornalisti televisivi, cartoline, bandiere, coppie a cena e nazioni che sbirciano attraverso finestre.
Se paragoniamo l’esperienza alla stimolazione estetica vissuta guardando la televisione, questi lavori permettono di guardare due, forse tre canali nello stesso momento.
Il brusio delle cose, i luoghi, i cibi e le persone sono fossilizzati in lucidi passepartout di foamcore abbondantemente dipinti, congelando la tristezza del turista e del pubblico (la stessa cosa) in una lieve miscela ipomaniacale di euphoria e irritabilità.
Congelati insieme a tutto e tutti, all’interno di questi passepartout ci sono dipinti su tela che raffigurano un nazionalismo di seni e peni che vende cibo al ristorante, biglietti aerei per località esotiche, muri o francobolli.
Le relazioni sociali sono stimolanti, incarnano la crescita, la distruzione e la riformulazione delle idee. Nei dipinti di Benedict, attraverso la costante rimediazione, l’unico elemento immutabile è la moltiplicazione dei livelli interpellativi.
In occasione dell’inaugurazione sarà possibile vedere le fotografie a grandezza naturale che popolano il suo lavoro e assistere alla performance di Lucy Dodd che romperà l’atmosferà. Con un’attenzione illimitata, la pittura diventa uno zoom perpetuo che genera e penetra senza fine i livelli ricorsivi di un dilemma falsamente faustiano – lavorare o non lavorare, cenare o dipingere, cena, dipinto, cena, dipinto, etc. Come un primo appuntamento metropolitano in cui ingrassiamo, parliamo, subiamo tendenze nazionalistiche e vediamo a fatica cosa può essere fatto.
Mathieu Malouf
Will Benedict (1978), vive e lavora a Vienna.
Ha studiato all’Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, e alla Staedelschule, Frankfurt am Mein. I lavori di Will Benendict sono stati recentemente presentati nelle personali presso Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurtam Main, 2010, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, 2009 e in occasione delle collettive ‘Flaca’, a cura di Tom Humphreys, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main. 2011, ‘Will Benedict, Nikolas Gambaroff, Carissa Rodriguez’, Renwick Gallery, New York, 2011 e ‘Before and After’, Balice
Hertling, Paris, 2010.
Per il 2012 sono previste una nuova personale presso la Meyer Kainer e la partecipazione in veste di curatore presso la Andrew Kreps Gallery di New York.
Dal 2008 si occupa insieme a Lucie Stahl dello spazio espositivo Pro Choice, Vienna.
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Inaugurazione: venerdì 13 aprile 2012 dalle 19.00 alle 22.00 (in occasione della notte bianca di MiArt)
Ore 20.00 performance di Lucy Dodd
Dal 14 aprile al 16 giugno 2012.
Dal martedì al sabato 10.00-13.00, 15.00-19.00
PressOffice: Cristina Pariset T.+39 024812584 F.+39 024812486 Cell.+39 3485109589 cristina.pariset@libero.it
Per ricevere informazioni e immagini della mostra, inviare richiesta a: info@giomarconi.com o utilizzare il link: http://fileshare.giomarconi.com/public/WB_cartella_stampa.zip
For the past several years Will Benedict has been working professionally as a photographer, painter and tourist. This April at Gio' Marconi, Benedict will present Bonjour Tourist, new works relying on various combinations of gouache paintings and cut-out studio portraits, mounted in customized aluminium and foamcore frames. Organized in distinct series, they fulfill the nominal categories of newscasters, postcards, flags, couples having dinner and nations peeking in through windows. Compared to the kind of aesthetic stimulation experienced while watching TV the works are like watching two, maybe three channels at the same time.
In Benedict's works the buzzing clamor of things, places, foods and people are fossilized in lavishly painted waxed foamcore passepartout, freezing the sadness of the tourist and audience (the same thing) into an ever so slight hypomanic mixture of euphoria and irritability. Frozen along with everyone and everything in these passepartouts are paintings on canvas depicting a tits and penis nationalism that sells food at restaurants, plane ticket to exotic locals, walls or stamps.
Social relations are stimulating, they embody growth, destruction and a reformulation of ideas. Throughout the constant remediation in Benedict's paintings, the only immutable thing is the multiplication of interpellative layers. At the opening, more guests will join the life-size photographs that populate the work and a performance by Lucy Dodd will pierce the atmosphere. With limitless attention, painting is an infinite zoom in effect that endlessly generates and penetrates the recursive layers of a falsely faustian dilemma—work or not, dine or paint, dinner, painting, dinner, painting, etc. Like a metropolitan first date where we get fat, talk, suffer nationalistic tendencies and wade through what can be done about them.
Mathieu Malouf
Will Benedict (b. 1978 Los Angeles, lives and works in Vienna) studied at Art Center College of Design, Pasadena and Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main. Recent solo exhibitions include Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt
am Main (2010) and Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna (2009) and the group exhibitions ‘Flaca’, curated by Tom Humphreys, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main (2011), ‘Will Benedict, Nikolas Gambaroff, Carissa Rodriguez’, Renwick Gallery, New York (2011) and ‘Before and After’, Balice Hertling, Paris (2010).
Upcoming solo exhibitions include Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna (2012).
In July, 2012 Benedict will curate an exhibition focused on portraiture at Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York.
Since 2008 he runs the exhibition space Pro Choice with Lucie Stahl.
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Opening: Tuesday, 13th April 2012, from 19.00 til 22.00
From 20.00 performance by Lucy Dodd
From April 14th till June 16th, 2012.
From Tuesday to Saturday 10.00-13.00, 15.00-19.00
PressOffice: Cristina Pariset T.+39 024812584 F.+39 024812486 Cell.+39 3485109589 cristina.pariset@libero.it
For further information please contact: info@giomarconi.com http://fileshare.giomarconi.com/public/WB_cartella_stampa.zip
Bonjour Tourist (Lucie & Markus), 2012
gouache on canvas and foamcore, archival inkjet print, aluminium, glass, tape
108 x 155 cm
performance view: Lucy Dodd, Giò Marconi, 2012
Bonjour Tourist (Lucie & Markus Yellow Model), 2012
photograph
16 x 21 cm
Ed.: 1/5
installation view: Bonjour Tourist, Giò Marconi, 2012
Lucy Dodd
Piano Pond Pipe, 2010
piano, plywood, copper, cement, sand, pond water, algae, goose down
variable dimensions
The Rock of Gibraltar, 2012
gouache on canvas, foamcore, aluminium, glass, tape
108 x 155 cm
Lucy, dream of stone, 2012
gouache on canvas, ink on foamcore, aluminium, glass, tape
108 x 155 cm
Bonjour Tourist (Josefin & Catharina), 2012
gouache on canvas and foamcore, archival inkjet print, aluminium, glass, tape
108 x 155 cm
Lucie, see you when I see you, 2012
gouache on canvas, ink on foamcore, aluminium, glass, tape
108 x 155 cm
installation view: Bonjour Tourist, Giò Marconi, 2012
Lucy Dodd
Piano Pond Pipe, 2010
piano, plywood, copper, cement, sand, pond water, algae, goose down
variable dimensions
Untitled, 2012
gouache on canvas and foamcore, aluminium, glass, tape
59,5 x 84 cm
Josefin, read that bitch, 2012
gouache on canvas, ink on foamcore, aluminium, glass, tape
108 x 155 cm
Untitled, 2012
gouache on canvas and foamcore, aluminium, glass, tape
59,5 x 84 cm
installation view: Bonjour Tourist, Giò Marconi, 2012
Paris, 2012
gouache on canvas, foamcore, aluminium, glass, tape
155 x 108 cm
Day Traitor (Doris), 2012
gouache on canvas and foamcore, archival inkjet print, aluminium, glass, tape
108 x 155 cm
Day Traitor (Doris), 2012
photograph
16 x 21 cm
Ed.: 1/5
installation view: Bonjour Tourist, Giò Marconi, 2012
Black Friday, 2012
gouache on canvas and foamcore, aluminium, glass, tape
108 x 155 cm
Orange China, 2012
gouache on canvas and foamcore, aluminium, glass, tape
108 x 155 cm
Chinese Flag, 2012
gouache on canvas and foamcore, aluminium, glass, tape
108 x 155 cm
installation view: Bonjour Tourist, Giò Marconi, 2012
Bonjour Sadness, 2012
gouache on canvas and foamcore, aluminium, glass, tape
108 x 155 cm
Pisa, 2012
gouache on canvas, foamcore, aluminium, glass, tape
155 x 108 cm
Day Traitor (Henning Model), 2012
photograph
16 x 21 cm
Ed.: 1/5
Corporate Italian Twilight, 2012
gouache on canvas and foamcore, archival inkjet print, aluminium, glass, tape
108 x 155 cm
Tap Water, 2012
gouache on canvas, foamcore, aluminium, glass, tape
155 x 108 cm
Corporate Mexican Twilight, 2012
gouache on canvas and foamcore, archival inkjet print, aluminium, glass, tape
108 x 155 cm
Bonjour Tourist (Thao & Jasmin Model), 2012
photograph
16 x 21 cm
Ed.: 1/5
A Room with a View, 2012
gouache on canvas and foamcore, photograph, aluminium, glass, tape
84 x 59,5 cm