Benoît Barbagli ~ Galerie Eva Vautier

Benoît Barbagli

Benoît Barbagli's workshop is vast. Ocean, river and mountain are his performative spaces. Art emerges there, a vital emergence within the collective. His plural and multi-medium propositions blossom in itinerant gestures. Art moves in nature. In his peripatetic devices, the path makes sense, the nudity is candid, and the work manifests itself in surges. The configurations are multiple, the rituals varied and, often, the expedition that leads to the artistic experience is done with visual artists. His camera is described as "flying". It is passed from hand to hand and the signature is frequently shared or collective. See more

Benoît Barbagli explores the borders. It draws from the substratum of creation in search of its germinations from a mutualized food. The Mountain creates as much as the sea, as the artist friend, by its presence, by its movement, by the principle of life, by essence random, which moves it. Art seizes moments of the Living that always manifests itself where we do not expect it, in unheard of sequences that we sometimes struggle to grasp in their unfolding. With humor, lightness, strength and delicacy, Barbagli invites us to sketch the moments and incites us to consider them in their ephemeral beauty. An ode to Vitality.

The four elements are recurrent. They animate and structure the artist's series in Heraclitean spurts. Fire, water, air, earth. Benoît Barbagli's universe is poetic, polysemic, playful and funny. He likes to "hijack the Text expo Under the chaos life references of culture to return them to nature." What makes a work? The project? Its manifestations? He orchestrates meetings, a community is created around the project and the creative space becomes a joyful pretext for life.

To pay homage to the living, to give him his place, the artist erases himself, he stages himself and yet fades with great elegance, the ego dissolves in the interconnected, I is another. Benoît Barbagli, it is the romanticism reversed. His return to nature takes place in a peaceful setting where egotism is annihilated, where praise is stripped of pomp, where art emerges in its simplest expression. In the Mediterranean Sea in winter, a hand holds a bouquet in the icy water, the fertile sea is also deadly lately. Eros and Thanatos come together, amorous ardor and mortuary homage are the two sides of the same mirror. In an attempt at love with the torch, a naked body throws itself off a cliff, the diver's tomb or unquenchable passion? The moment is in suspense, an unresolved space subject to the projections of the viewer. The grace, the fall and the rebound - or not, are all part of it. Bodies carry a stone under the troubled surface of a lake, emergence of a new Atlantis or Sisyphean perspective of an inevitable collapse after an umpteenth attempt? The artist and his acolytes bring their stone to the visual building. Benoît Barbagli is the sherpa of the mountain, he transports his canvases there so that the latter creates. It removes the museumization of the woman's body by returning it to the earth. It captures the spark igniting the beam. He walks on the anthropocene by questioning the stars, born of chaos.

Text written by Pulchérie Gadmer on the occasion of the exhibition Sous le chaos,la vie See less

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Biography

Main exhibitions at the gallery :

All around the water

Azimuth

Selection of works

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Benot Barbagli n° 8661 [Deep Blues] 2022 Série Jazz-WaterTirage pigmentaire contre collé sur aluminium13Encadrement sur mesure avec verre... 60 x 90 cm

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Benoît Barbagli "Tout autour, l'eau" 2022vue exposition galerie Eva Vautier

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Benoît Barbagli "Tout autour, l'eau" 2022vue exposition galerie Eva Vautier

Révolution naturelle II 2020 120 x 90 cm 180 Web

Immersion, 2022

8"16'

Video for the exhibition All Around Water

Music and Image Benoit Barbagli, Montage Evan Bourgeau

Born from earth, 2020

Series, 90° above, 120 x 65.8 cm, 5 copies

Participation Katalina Cearca Lea Bloch and Aimée Fleury

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Light in love, 2020

Series, Lovers' Leaps Photography 100 x 60 cm 5 copies

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The Winter Rite, 2021

Series, The shape of the sea -Ecotopia Ink on canvas 180 x 285 cm Unique

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Deep Blue, 2022

Series, Jazz-Water ,Photograph, 90 x 60 cm, 3 copies

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Participation of Aimée Fleury

Solo exhibitions

2022 All around, water, Galerie Eva Vautier, Nice

2022 Origin of joy, Galerie Epi ,Ingrande-sur-loire

2022 Nouvelle Vague, Palazzo Saluzzo Paesana, Turin, Italy

2021 Sous le Chaos La vie, Galerie Mansard, Paris

2021 La mer à l'œuvre, Espace culturel de Port-Lympia, Nice

2021 Ecotopia - Interview, Château de la Napoule, Mandelieu-la-Napoule

2020 90° au dessus du feu, Hôtel Windsor, Nice

2020 Alive, Château de la Napoule, Mandelieu-la-Napoule

2015 Telepathy Room, SuperVue, Hôtel Burrhus, Vaison-la-Romaine

2015 En une seconde d'inspiration, exterior facade of MAMAC and TNN, Nice

Exhibition created for the Réveillons-Nous festival organized by Irina Brook

2015 A kind of metaphor like the (planet) Earth, Paris 18ème

Exhibition realized in partnership with the association Diameter, Travelling Gallery

2015 Ici la terre, Rosalina, Nice

Group exhibitions

Group exhibitions

2022 A rose is a petinua is a mimosa, Galerie Eva vautier, Nice

2021 L'horizon, Galerie Eva Vautier Hors les Murs, La menuiserie, La Motte-Servolex

2020 Avec plaisir III, Galerie Eva Vautier, Nice

2020 Voila l'été, The resort, Nice

2020 Fire walk with me, Musée d'art Naif, Nice

2018 Avec plaisir II, Galerie Eva Vautier, Nice

2019 Nopoto, BelOeil, Nice

2019 Bâtir, villa Le Roc Fleury, Cap d'Ail

2019 La vie est un film, 109, Nice

2019 100 titles, BelOeil, Nice

2018 Avec plaisir, Galerie Eva Vautier, Nice

2018 La mémoire et la mer, curated by Rebecca François, Nice

2018 Private Choice, curated by Nadia Candet, Paris

2018 Une collection 5, curated by Camille Frasca, Paris

2017 Rien ne se perd.... curated by Camille Frasca, Paris

2017 Une collection, curated by Camille Frasca, Nice

2016 Un palais idéal des egos étranges, Palais idéal du facteur Cheval, Hauterives

2016 Préfiguration du palais idéal des egos étranges, Palais idéal du facteur Cheval, Hauterives

2015 Odyssée, Galerie La Marine, Nice

Exhibition organized by the Villa Arson, graduating students 2015

2014 Des corps compétents, Villa Arson Art Center, Nice

2013 Works in progress, Galerie Eva Vautier, Nice

Group exhibition and curatorial work organized in partnership with Eva Vautier

2013 Manca, performance concert, MAMAC, Nice

Performance /Workshops/ Residencies

Performance /Workshops/ Residencies

2019 Polychrome, Utopia residence, Ponte-Leccia, Haute-Corse

2018 School of Nice - From Pop Art to Happenings, Hong-Kong, French May 2018, direction of a workshop on performance as representative of the School of Nice.

2013 Avatar, workshop, École d'art de l'Université Laval, Québec, directed by Pascal Broccolichi and Julie Faubert

2012-2013, Des corps compétents, workshops, HEAD, Génève, Switzerland under the direction of Arnaud

Label Rojoux, Patrice Blouin and Christophe Kihm

2011 Fluxus concerts and performances, Performance at MoMA (Newyork City) with Ben Vautier Foires

2019 DrawingNow, Paris, Galerie Eva Vautier,

2018 ArtParis, Paris, Galerie Bertheas,

Duo Exhibitions

2022 Aleas, curated by Alain Jaquet, apartment exhibition with Jacque Renoir

2018 Emosophia, curated by Caterina Zevola Open Bach, Paris (with Bertrand Lanthiez)

2017 Derrière la Mer, Galerie de Beuil, Beuil (with Anne-laure Wuillai)

Exhibitions with the Palam Collective

2021 Orées, Villa Cameline, Nice

2020 Sous la glace l'eau, Caisse d'épargne de Nice Masséna, Nice,

2020 In the presence of, Chapelle Sainte-Elisabeth, Villefranche-sur-Mer

2019 Azimuth, Galerie Eva Vautier, Nice, and the FRAC PACA as part of Des marches et démarches

Training

2015, DNSEP, Villa Arson, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Nice, France

2013, DNAP, Villa Arson, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Nice, France

2011, Licence III Philosophy, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis

Publications

2022 All around, water, Ecological and social manifesto for the exhibition All around, water

2022 Nouvelle Vague, Exhibition catalog

2019 Ecotopia, book about the ecotopia project

2014 Ici la terre, le mémoire, Graduation thesis directed by Joseph Mouton and Thomas Golsen, Villa Arson, Nice

2014 Ici la terre, l'expédition, Co-publication for the Ici la terre project, with texts by Tristan Blumel

Biography

Benoît Barbagli born in 1988 in Nice.

He lives and works between Paris and Nice.

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Critical text on Benoit Barbagli

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Articles :

Manifesto All around the water Manisfeste written during the eponymous exhibition at the eva vautier gallery

Anthropocene, our freedom Critical text on the link between Art ecology and freedom by Benoit Barbagli, written for the publication of the Ecotopia edition

External documentation

Jazz Submarine 2022