This powder is mixed. Made of tiny particles. It colors the liquid. Tiny fragments that merge into the liquid, which will caress the surface of the canvas. Of the skin.
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.
Film by Benoît Labourdette (8’34s, 2016).
Documentary on the painting exhibition “The wire” by Benoît Labourdette, Paris, October 2016.
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.
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 (...)
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 (...)
Artwork digital video. Benoît Labourdette (5’51s, 2014).
Abstract shapes, children color from the sky.
Collective film (3’49s, 2018).
When everyone finds in himself his richness, his inner joy.
Conception, design and production of a visual artist’s editorial and exhibition website.
A website that combines editorial flexibility with masterful graphic design.www.virginiehoudet.com Site update in 2023In 2023, i.e. eight years after the creation of this website, due to a lack of regular updates to the CMS SPIP used, the (...)
Collective film (0’54s, 2019).
How do we find good reasons to leave and fight?
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 (...)
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, (...)
Video creation by Benoît Labourdette, 3’12s, 2014.
Meet the drawing of small nation on the pavement.
Creation of fantastic images using video projections on the body.
A pictorial account of the shared poetic creation of visio-corporeal transformations, proposed by Benoît Labourdette, with painting, drawing, video projectors, photography, cell phones and digital tools, at the Louvre Lens on Saturday, December (...)
Series of 20 photographs of paintings.
Are these twenty framed paintings in the tunnel of a train station under renovation “real paintings”? Or are they just the frames that make me see them as paintings worthy of my interest? Is there an artist’s intention or is it just my gaze, (...)
Chomo (1907-1999) quotes. “We are not on the earth to make money, eat and have sex. We are on the earth to evolve.” “Before, we mimicked, in art, the truth (reality). Now, we have understood, I have understood that we can represent dreams. I (...)
A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’04s, silent, 2018).
Abyss of pictorial representations over time.
A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’24s, silent, 2018).
Musical and pictorial exchanges of looks, faces, sexes, bodies, times...
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...Note on the personality of Pablo PicassoPicasso’s violence towards women and (...)
A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’21s, silent, 2017, pseudonym: Jean-Jacques).
To look at each other, to face our violence.
Video creation by Benoît Labourdette (3’47s, 2014).
Humans make maps, marks, before go into action.
A film by Benoît Labourdette (9’54s, 2014).
A mystery of the act of painting, unveiled with Richard Texier.
Series of 35 technical photographs.
We draw on the skin of the world, to prepare the future underground fluid networks. One projects oneself into the underground. It is a poetic writing that ignores itself. We thought we were just a worker, but we are told we are a poet.
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 (...)
A film by Sylviane Bertrand and Benoît Labourdette (1’, silent, 2018).
A simple painting can create controversy in a couple.
A film by Richard Texier and Benoît Labourdette (8’51s, 2014).
Film Richard Texier’s paintings with a drone...
A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’55s, silent, 2017, pseudonym: Bob Boss).
When nature brings us back to the Sacred.
Series of 24 photographs with brushes.
To brush, in a gesture, in a second, the inclination of my life.Brush by the sensitive surface in movements.To compose with several together.To find oneself far from me.There, it is sometimes blurred.I recognize myself.
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.
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 Dubuffet
Video creation by Benoît Labourdette (3’46s, 2014).
Memories, drawned on walls, faces.
Series of 58 photographs on a train platform in 2022.
Human beings were led to believe that they had suddenly become dangerous to each other and that they had to step aside to save themselves from the danger posed by the other.
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 (...)
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.
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 (...)
Photographs, paintings, drawings, assemblies and texts by Benoît Labourdette (unless otherwise stated).