BENENATI

Jan 29, 2018

Born in Marseille in 1963, Thierry Benenati is a sculptor. Fontenaisian artist, his fame is international.

After studying Applied Arts, he spent 20 years in Paris as creative director of artistic director in advertising agencies. For 10 years, he devoted himself to sculpture, pure artistic expression, his true nature. He regularly participates in the Grand Palais, or at the Salon d’Automne where he was vice-president and president of the sculpture section. In 2019, one of his works will enter an Italian museum attached to the city of Torgiano (Italy), a consecration.

The bronze…

Whether animalistic or not, the sculptures of Thierry Benenati reveal an invisible reality, a hidden truth of each subject, in the form of allegory, thanks to the symbolism. Before becoming bronzes, the originals are in plaster, iron and wax. It is in the greatest respect of the rules of art that his pieces reveal an authentic work of sculptor, created and then realized by the artist.

… and Steel

In his workshop in Rennes, Thierry Benenati also works iron as he does with the earth, but under the 1500 ° of his torch. The work of an original steel is more demanding and dangerous than the work of wax or plaster. Here everything is hard, cutting, heavy and extremely resistant. To make a steel work, then to chisel it, is a test of strength! But the final result, in its elegance and its movement, must make forget the rigor and the endurance that the work of this matter imposes.

To marry harmoniously classic and modern

My works forget neither the beautiful nor the living, nor light, nor space, nor even time.
It is outside of all modes or tendencies that I try to inscribe my work in a continuity of the history of the art and in the love of the great masters. My creations, resolutely surreal, always offbeat and mostly animal, betray my Italian origins in their sometimes baroque style: an expression that can be called symbolist-surrealist.

The witness sculpture of civilizations.

Primitive art; this is the source of the artistic creation of humanity. Picasso, Matisse, Giacometti, Modigliani, Brancusi … and more recently Bazelitz, Paladino, Barcelo or Ousseman Sow, and many others, all fed on these roots, be they Egyptian, Etruscan, Aztec, Mayan, African, Oceanian or Asian. Since the staging of Marcel Duchamps, we have seen 80 years glorify the concept rather than talent and know-how. Would not it be just a wink on 30,000 years of art? The crises have at least that good, is that they chase the superfluous and encourage us to find the fundamentals.

Historically, sculpture has been one of the privileged witnesses of the history of civilizations. From Africa to the West, the works, sometimes monumental, have always fascinated by the mastery of their authors. It is today part of a world where, since the direct cutting of stone or wood, materials and techniques are multiplying and we do not really know who does what and how.

But fortunately the public’s eye shows us that he will always be sensitive to the effects of shadows and lights on the forms, to the games of solids and voids, to the creativity and talent of Insuffler a spark of life that a work proposes to share with the visitor.

Richness of contemporary artistic production

For Thierry Benenati “the contemporary artistic production is fortunately more diverse and fertile than ever. But there is however an unjust split between moderns and classics. the former consider the classics obsolete and the latter accuse the moderns of neglecting mastery.

Most of my style tries to show that we can eventually find a line-union between the two.

GUILLERM

Aug 14, 2017

Born in Paris, France, in 1959, Philippe Guillerm began working with design in a early age and the local environment had an enormous and lasting influence on his drawings giving him contemporary forms. He continues to use today on his two and three dimensional works. The artist actually went to school for engineering, following his father’s vocation.But he grew up surrounded by art, and his training, along with helping his father build furniture and boats, prepared him to compose.

Philippe Guillerm’s family is originally from Brittany, or “ Land of the Sea”, where the people traditionally worked as sailors or fishermen .With his heritage and a life time of summer sailing behind him, adolescent Guillerm left France for Spain and Morocco. His travels eventually led to French Guyana, where he met wife and wood, Philippe Guillerm found the beauty of each undeniable, and he left for Tahiti two years later as a husband and sculptor. Art and music are more direct languages than spoken or written word’s could ever be, and Philippe Guillerm’s sculptures and paintings sing.

EXHIBITIONS
1990 Tahiti Cultural Space – Papeete
1992 Naval Center of Numea – New Caledonia
1994 Victoria Yacht Club – Vitoria Brazil
1996 Caioba Yacht Club – Caioba Brazil
Club Berisso – La Plata Argentina
Art Temple – Buenos Aire Argentina
1997 Vito Dumas Yacht Club – Necochea Argentina
Casa Del Imigrante – Necochea Argentina
Armada Argentina Country Club – Buenos Aires
Passeo Norte Art Center – Tandil Argentina
French Alliance – Curitiba Brazil
1998 Art Vue Gallery – Merritt Island Florida
Florida Tech Library – Florida
1999 Orlando Museum of Art – Florida
2000 Melbourne International Airport
Melbourne Convention Center
Ft. Lauderdale International Boat Show
2001 Artserve Gallery – Florida
Boca Museum Artist Guild – Florida
Montgomery Armory Art Center – Florida
Lewis Gallery – Miami Florida
Schacnow Museum of Art – Florida
2002 Exhibit Gallery – Boca Raton
Artserve Main Library – Florida
Casual Environs DCOTA – Florida
Windsor Gallery DCOTA – Florida
ArtistHouse – Florida
Ft. Lauderdale Museum of Art – Florida
California Museum of Art – California
Beaux Art – Coral Gables – Florida
De Graff Gallery – West Palm Beach
2003 Florida Philharmonic – Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization – Chicago IL.
2004 Broadway Gallery – Oakland, FL.
Boca Raton Museum of Art – Boca Raton, FL.
Creatrics Contemporary Gallery – Easton, Meryland
Broward Care For Kids -Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
American Craft Council Show – Atlanta, GA.
Seldom Sean – Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
2005 Artexpo New York – NY
Ars Flores Symphony Orchestra – Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
Art du nu Le Salon – France
Skylight Art Gallery and Jewelers – Boston, MA
2006 High Notes Gallery – Burlington, Canada
Carver Hill Gallery – Rockport, ME
2007 Palm Springs Art Museum – Palm Springs, CA
Symposium Des Arts – Drummondville, QB.
San Diego Art Institute Museum of the Living Artist – San Diego, CA.
Art for Sail – Atlantic Challenge School – Rockland, ME.
2008 Mary Martin Gallery – Charleston, SC.
Veil Gallery – Veil, CO.
The Kessler Collection – Orlando, FL.
Drummondville Gallery – Drummondville, QC.
Le Balcon D’Art – Monreal, QC.
artKudo 4th International Juried Art Exhibition and Competition.
2011 Elementos Art Gallery – Dominican Republic
2012 Open his own studio/gallery – Philippe Guillerm Gallery , Waldoboro, ME
2014 Kessler Collection – Grand Bohemian Hotel Savannah, GA
Kessler Collection – Grand Bohemian Hotel St. Augustine, FL
Kessler Collection – Grand Bohemian Hotel Orlando, FL
Kessler Collection – Grand Bohemian Hotel Ashville
Kessler Collection – Grand Bohemian Hotel Taos
2017 Gallerie Saint Martin – France