Ceysson & Bénétière

The Ceysson & Bénétière gallery is pleased to announce its participation in the 2024 edition of Art Brussels, featuring a careful selection of flagship artists from the gallery, juxtaposing young talents alongside more established figures.

On display will be, among others, works by Wilfrid Almendra, created from materials sourced from the alternative economy, barter, and exchange, engaging with questions related notably to social classes. Coming from a gra!ti background and inspired by avant-garde artistic movements, Antwan Horfee employs spray techniques for his abstract and slightly distorted representations. Three of his works on paper will be presented. Nicolas Momein's primary operations result in "object-works" that have lost their functionality while maintaining a high level of technicality, such as the Dry wiping series. The selection of works by Tania Mouraud combines writing and abstraction in her conceptual approach. Aurélie Pétrel, on the other hand, questions the status of the image, its use, and the mechanisms of its production. The booth will showcase for the first time the works of Tomona Matsukawa, who succeeds Lionel Sabatté at the La Chaulme residency. The Japanese artist has created realistic paintings with striking titles, born from interviews with other women of her generation, often strangers. The titles and subjects are derived from striking phrases that were uttered during these conversations. Lionel Sabatté has created canvases using pigments from the same oxide deposit used to create the Lascaux cave paintings. Also featured will be the "meta-mystical" drawings of Jean-Luc Verna, o"ering a parade of characters and metaphorical images in works inspired by punk and new wave music, as well as cinema, pop culture, theater, mythology, and mysticism. Stephané Edith Conradie will be presented with sculptures adorned with intertwined objects, inspired by the interior decoration of houses in the working-class neighborhoods of South Africa. Also featured are creations by mounir fatmi, Nam Tchun-Mo, Claire Chesnier, and Yves Zurstrassen.

In addition to emerging artists, the gallery also highlights more historical artists, whose works have marked entire generations with their uniqueness and lasting influence, such as Nancy Graves, Frank Stella, Bernard Venet, and Claude Viallat.

The booth 5C43 will present a solo show dedicated to Adam Himebauch. Each of the landscapes is an abstracted memory or reverie from Himebauch’s past, revealing the intimacies of his life to an extent he has not before shared, but equally concealing those moments through their visual abstraction. Himebauch often divulges aspects of himself in his work, yet never fully. His life as urban renegade Hanksy literalizes this dialectic as Himebauch created all of the work, but through the distanced lens of a persona that he conceptualized. In his Back To The Future project, Himebauch once again incorporated aspects of himself in the work, but in a non- linear, esoteric way. As the project centered around a retrospective look back at the career of a much older Himebauch, his life and art were the apex; however, Himebauch has yet to experience the passing of those years or those milestones, therefore the man being celebrated has yet to exist. Throughout his career so far, Himebauch has dabbled in a complex and wonderful exploration of not only his singular “self,” but his plural “selves.” He has explored his future, created from his present, and now, looking back, he amalgamates them all with his past.

Dr. Lizy Dastin, 2023