Jesús Alberto Benítez

France

Jesús Alberto Benítez works in drawing, painting, photography, and installation, but the formation of the image seems to be the central theme of his oeuvre. His photographs emphasize the conditions of their creation. They show his studio, the tools, and the materials he uses. A recent series of photographs reveals fragments of his computer screen, showing the texture of the image in its digital file state. His drawings are often rudimentary: a few more or less spontaneous lines that seem to coalesce to form an image. His paintings are often simply the imprint of a gesture, such as covering or scraping. And his contribution to the project Dust: the Plates of the Present by Thomas Fougeirol and Jo-ey Tang, acquired by the Centre Pompidou, takes the radical form of photograms where a simple fold of paper, sometimes tapped against the enlarger, creates the image.

Étienne Hatt, The Image Challenged, Artpress no. 473
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Jesús Alberto Benítez
3280
$2,510
Painter, Photographer, Draftsman