Specially created for La Verrière, Benoît Maire’s project engages with Guillaume Désanges’s core themes for the “Gesture, and thought” season, highlighting diverse approaches to the direct extension of thought or ideas into work.
Benoît Maire: Letre
Launched in April 2013 by La Verrière’s curator Guillaume Désanges, the “Gesture, and thought” season continues in September with a solo exhibition by French artist Benoît Maire.
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- 04 September 2014
- Brussels
“Letre” is the third in a series of exhibitions devised by Benoît Maire throughout 2014 (after “beings” at Hollybush Gardens, London, and “Letter” at Western Front, Vancouver). The show plays on the French homonyms of its title – lettre or “letter” and l’être, a creature or “being” – as the pretext for a vast installation of sculptures, materials and collages arranged as a composition governed by no explicit rules, exploring sensation and the expression of thought as form.
Benoît Maire’s generation of artists draws on metaphysical references while at the same time embracing form and objects. Pure thought is eschewed in favour of its physical accessories (books, images, culture). Knowledge is a raw material in its own right. In this context, the artist’s ambitious project centres on a range of exploratory works in progress, examining how best to enact specific philosophical motifs as forms (Lacan, Wittgenstein and Kierkegaard feature regularly), which are themselves an opportunity for an enquiring, critical assessment of the resulting, fundamental schism between art and poetry.
from September 6 until October 18, 2014
Benoît Maire
Lettre
cycle “Gesture, and thought”
curated by Guillaume Désanges
La Verrière
50, Boulevard de Waterloo
Brussels