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.

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 (...)

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, (...)

Map

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

Humans make maps, marks, before go into action.

Colossal garden

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

When nature brings us back to the Sacred.

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...Note on the personality of Pablo PicassoPicasso’s violence towards women and the (...)

Seven chances 2

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

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

Whiteboards

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, (...)

The wire

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

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

Le tableau

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

A simple painting can create controversy in a couple.

The fight

Collective film (0’54s, 2019).

How do we find good reasons to leave and fight?

“An artist must be complete. A painter, if he is only a painter, is dead. I do scultpure, painting, music.”

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 (...)

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.

Drawn cinema

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

Abyss of pictorial representations over time.

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 (...)

Sports

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

Meet the drawing of small nation on the pavement.

Richard Texier at work

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

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

Faces

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

Memories, drawned on walls, faces.

The hectic life of our objects

Collective film (3’49s, 2018).

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

Cyan Magenta Yellow Black

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 (...)

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, (...)

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 (...)

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.

Chaosmos

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

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

Imaginary territory

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

Abstract shapes, children color from the sky.

The others ?

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

To look at each other, to face our violence.

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 (...)

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 (...)