Henri-Marc BENOIT

Painter | France

Born in 1982

« Without emotions, it is impossible to transform darkness into light and apathy into movement. Carl Gustav Jung »

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Influenced by my grandfather's watercolors and bathed in the play of light in my childhood home, I have been using silhouettes and shadow play since my high school plastic arts classes. Later, the works of Max Neumann or the watercolors of Joachim Bandau enlightened my imagination a little more. At the center of my work, there is the shadow. This shadow is present everywhere but which no one cares about. My portraits are formal searches for chimerical “me”. Sort of unstructured silhouettes but which remain characteristic of the person painted. Playing with shadows, silhouettes. Cross them, superimpose them and create! Create chimeras.

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Série d'autoportraits au fil du temps.

Henri-Marc, Henri, Marc, Mr Benoit, Marco. Who am I? How am I seen? How am I progressing? Self-portrait in acrylic or oil over the years. Over the workshops, over the moods. Different studios, different lights. This series brings together self-portraits entitled Me, Myself and I. Shadow games playing on the absence of the model and creating an "other". Sort of chimerical Me, different but with the characteristics of being painted.

page.alt — Acrylic on Canvas - 46x38cm

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Atmosphère

In acrylic or oil over the years. Over the workshops, over the moods.

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Corps

On the same principle as the series entitled Me, Myself and I. Shadow games playing on the absence of the model and creating an "other". Sort of chimerical Me, different but with the characteristics of being painted. The body overlaps and creates other forms. Acrylic or oil over the years. Over the workshops, over the moods. Different studios, different lights.

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Tête dans les nuages

Works exhibited at the Saint Mart pavilion, in Royat in 2023.

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Commande

Over time, more or less realistic portrait orders.

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Portraits

Acrylic or oil portrait over the years. Throughout the workshops, through the moods. Different workshops, different lights. This series brings together portraits of friends, relatives or commissions. Shadow play playing on the absence of the model and creating an “other”. A sort of chimerical Self, different but with the characteristics of the painted being.

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Nitescences

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Figures de l'ombre

Works presented during the exhibition at the Pavillon St Mart in Royat then at the Espace Renan in Clermont-Ferrand in 2018. The theme of the exhibition is shadow figures.