Painting

Revisit the principles of four-colour printing, with inks and ashes. Fifteen “numerical paintings”. Mechanical colour reproduction does not use the same primary colours as in painting. There are only three: Red, Green and Blue. On computer (...)

17 August 2018

2 min

Drawn cinema

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’04s, silent, 2018).

Abyss of pictorial representations over time.

24 October 2018

To Jean Dubuffet

A film by Benoît Labourdette (4’19s, 2018).

“I am absolutely convinced that anyone, without any special knowledge or skills, without having to look at I don’t know what so-called native dispositions, can devote themselves to art with every chance of success.” Jean (...)

15 December 2018

Le tableau

A film by Sylviane Bertrand and Benoît Labourdette (1’, silent, 2018).

A simple painting can create controversy in a couple.

21 March 2018

Art Press: article “Richard Texier, digital filmmaker”

Publication of an article in the special addon of ArtPress “Richard Texier, PANTHEO vortex” (June-July 2014). Download complete article (bilingual english-french) ArtPress devoted a special addon to Richard Texier, French painter and sculptor, (...)

28 June 2014

2 min

Colossal garden

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’55s, silent, 2017, pseudonym: Bob Boss).

When nature brings us back to the Sacred.

3 June 2017

Seven chances 2

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’24s, silent, 2018).

Musical and pictorial exchanges of looks, faces, sexes, bodies, times...

20 March 2018

www.virginiehoudet.com website

Conception, design and production of editorial and exhibition website of painter / filmmaker. www.virginiehoudet.comChallenges and objectives This website was to present an exhibition of paintings. It should also be a place to promote the work (...)

15 April 2015

2 min

The others ?

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’21s, silent, 2017, pseudonym: Jean-Jacques).

To look at each other, to face our violence.

3 April 2017

A butterfly at Picasso’s

A ghost flutters in his place of honor. Instrumental, 2016, 18’01s . Composition and interpretation of Benoît Labourdette (synthesizers). Film co-directed by Alain Fleischer and Benoît Labourdette.

1 July 2016

Map

Video creation by Benoît Labourdette (3’47s, 2014).

Humans make maps, marks, before go into action.

23 February 2014

Early summer

Series of 25 paintings on paper 50x65cm. “The coal consumed in the fireplace, which has lasted all spring, is now used to, at the time of the arrival of the summer, write the sensation of time that has gone, a revival that promises, engraving (...)

25 June 2016

2 min

Chaosmos

A film by Richard Texier and Benoît Labourdette (8’51s, 2014).

Film Richard Texier’s paintings with a drone...

18 June 2014

Le fil

Series of 100 paintings by Benoît Labourdette (acrylic and mixed media on canvas) format of 100x100cm in format 12x12cm, 2016. Exhibition in the studio of the artist in the fourth quarter 2016. «Initially, I had a film project : work inside the (...)

31 October 2016

2 min

The hectic life of our objects

Collective film (3’49s, 2018).

When everyone finds in himself his richness, his inner joy.

21 February 2018

Richard Texier at work

A film by Benoît Labourdette (9’54s, 2014).

A mystery of the act of painting, unveiled with Richard Texier.

7 October 2014

Turned upside down

Collective film and installation coordinated by Benoît Labourdette (8’19s, 2019-2021).

Video installation based on a collective film made by the artists themselves to present their work. As part of Lil’Art 2019. With : Jolanta Anton, Brigitte Badier, Lorka Berger-Campagne, Michèle Coudert, Véronique De Lavau, Thierry Deléage, (...)

17 September 2021

1 min

Faces

Video creation by Benoît Labourdette (3’46s, 2014).

Memories, drawned on walls, faces.

9 November 2014

The wire

Film by Benoît Labourdette (8’34s, 2016).

Documentary on the painting exhibition “The wire” by Benoît Labourdette, Paris, October 2016.

14 November 2016

Fire (white monkey)

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’14s, 2017).

At night, when anxiety is there, if one dares to look beyond the ashes of life, one can see an image of salvation.

8 August 2017

Inside time

Film by Benoît Labourdette (3’34 s, 2016).

Reading of the last paragraphs of “’Remembrance of Things Past” by Marcel Proust. Links between literature, painting and movement.

12 November 2016

The fight

Collective film (0’54s, 2019).

How do we find good reasons to leave and fight?

14 February 2019

A butterfly at Picasso’s

A film co-directed by Alain Fleischer and Benoît Labourdette (18’01s, 2016). Music by Benoît Labourdette.

An UAV in the Picasso Museum in Paris just before its reopening in 2014. An unusual visit to a place such that you will never see it again. And Picasso speaks...

31 December 2017

Imaginary territory

Artwork digital video. Benoît Labourdette (5’51s, 2014).

Abstract shapes, children color from the sky.

26 October 2014

Sports

Video creation by Benoît Labourdette, 3’12s, 2014.

Meet the drawing of small nation on the pavement.

19 July 2014

Bellapoarch, or the Mona Lisa of the 21^st Century?

Analysis of a success.

A 10-second video posted on the social network TikTok on August 18, 2020 has made, one month later, more than 400 million views, and the highest number of “I like” since the beginning of this social network. Hypothesis on the reasons for this (...)

20 September 2020

6 min

Painting

Painting is the original material of plastic work, which is intimately connected with photography, because it also contains the time of its gesture and its imagination.

Live paintings

In 2000, I designed a series of 12 films to be broadcasted in loops in different precise ways. “2D” Aesthetics of these purely plastic and infographic films is set in relation to the fact that the television screens at the time have lost their (...)