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Deeply impacted by his discovery of Augustin Lesage, Éric Benetto explores the most arduous spiritual paths: monastic life and ascetic practices of the Orthodox hesychasm. His Chinese ink or pencil drawings, on paper, radiographs and other MRI scans are imbued with syncretic mysticism as well as an exceptional modernity. Before his first solo exhibition organized by the gallery in 2019, his work had already been noticed at the exhibition Brut Now: art brut in the time of technologies, at the Belfort museums. Since then, he has joined prestigious collections such as those of Laurent Dumas (France) or Treger-Saint Silvestre (Portugal).

portrait of éric benetto - © christian berst — art brut
Date 1972 —
Country France

For Éric Benetto, born in 1972 in La Roche-sur-Yon, the discovery - at the age of 17 - of the mediumistic work of underground miner Augustin Lesage was a real epiphany. His meeting with Abbé Coutant, who became a painter himself thanks to his friend Gaston Chaissac, left his mark just as much on him. Deeply meditative, fundamentally fierce, Benetto understood then that his feeling of exile would find in art an unsuspected outcome.

Between two trips to India, he worked in a wide variety of jobs: roadmender, telephone pollster, chemical plant guard, and many others. He began to write down in travel diaries what would become his formal grammar. Like an uninterrupted prayer, a silent, vertiginous recitation, a haunting graphic mantra.

Soon, India ink, especially, and pencil, sometimes, would conquer larger surfaces. Kraft paper, first of all, before, thanks to a job in a hospital, he discovered the potential of radiographs and other MRI images: both transparency and darkness in search of light. His pen overcome by the trance would do the rest.

While the motifs are repeated ad libitum and the serial incantations unfold like the primordial om, the artist gives substance to what Romain Rolland called the “oceanic feeling”, this formidable thirst for osmosis with the universe. In Benetto’s case, it extends from limbo to men. Urbi et orbi. Especially when his assemblies of magnetic resonance images are studded with negatives of photographs of those who he refers to as his ” terrestrial family “. Or when the peregrination of memory is coupled with a redemptive impetus. Not to mention these organs freed from their condition, reinvented, poetized, sublimated.

Éric Benetto has never stopped walking the most arduous spiritual paths, from the rigors of monastic life to the ascetic practices of orthodox hesychasm. However, his extreme humility prevents him from admitting his singularity, because the work he has conceived is not only marked by an exacerbated, syncretic mysticism, but also by an exceptional modernity. His work was particularly noticed in 2016 during the exhibition Brut Now: l’art brut au temps des technologies at the Musées de Belfort and is part of major collections, both of art brut and contemporary art.

Artworks
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La Grande Apocalypse - © christian berst — art brut
La Grande Apocalypse, 2021
34.25 x 63.78 in
from one fetus to another, 2021
9.45 x 10.24 in
ruah, 2021
26.38 x 26.38 in
this is the man, 2022
13.78 x 16.93 in
La Vague de Brian, 2021
78.74 x 18.5 in
untitled (madeleine), 2021
14.57 x 11.81 in
Cosmic Song- Les 3 soeurs, 2007
25.59 x 9.84 in
Cosmic song - le transfert de rêve, 2006
18.9 x 12.6 in
Cosmic Song - the watchers - © christian berst — art brut
Cosmic Song - the watchers, 2007
18.9 x 14.17 in
The Big Totem, 2024
35.04 x 66.54 in
Catalog
Éric Benetto in excelsis
Catalogue published to mark the exhibition *Éric Benetto : in excelsis*, christian berst art brut, Paris, 2019. - © christian berst art brut, christian berst — art brut

Foreword : Christian Berst.
Catalog published to mark the exhibition Éric Benetto : in excelsis, from January 26th to March 2nd, 2019.

Exhibitions
métamorphose(s)
curators: anne-charlotte pascal et christian berst, les collatéraux, arles. From July 3 to 12, 2024.
variations d’été
main gallery. From June 29 to July 13, 2024.
Paris+
by art basel, grand palais éphémère, Paris. From October 20 to 23, 2022.
débordement #1: the pathfinders
by anaël pigeat & yvannoé krüger, the bridge + main gallery. From November 25, 2021 to January 16, 2022.
Deus ex machina
Musées de Soissons. From October 22, 2021 to January 30, 2022.
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in excelsis, at the gallery. From January 26 to March 2, 2019.
Art Brut
A Story of Individual Mythologies, Treger Saint Silvestre Collection, Portugal. From January 1 to February 26, 2017.
Brut Now
art brut in the technological era, Belfort Museums . From October 29, 2016 to January 16, 2017.
On The Wire
by Jean-Hubert Martin, at the gallery. From April 9 to May 22, 2016.
Drawing Now 2016
Carreau du temple, Paris. From March 30 to April 3, 2016.
PreTENse
at the Gallery. From September 12 to October 10, 2015.
Drawing Now 2015
Carreau du Temple, Paris. From March 25 to 29, 2015.
Art brut: breaking the boundaries
curator Christian Berst, Oliva Creative Factory, Sao Joao da Madeira, Portugal. From June 1 to September 11, 2014.
Arte Bruta Terra Incognita
by Christian Berst, Collection Treger-Saint Silvestre, Lisbonne. From April 20 to September 13, 2012.
drawing now 2012
drawing art fair, Carrousel du Louvre. From March 28 to April 1, 2012.
beyond the boundaries season 2011
discoveries and recent acquisitions, at the gallery. From September 10 to 28, 2011.
beyond the boundaries season 2009
discoveries and recent acquisitions, at the gallery. From September 11 to October 17, 2009.
exhibition view of *débordement #1 : les révélateurs*, curators : Anaël Pigeat et Yvannoé Krüger, christian berst art brut, Paris, 2021 - © christian berst — art brut
exhibition view of *éric benetto: in excelsis*, christian berst art brut, paris, 2019. - © christian berst art brut, photo: anaïs docteur, christian berst — art brut
exhibition view of *éric benetto : in excelsis*, christian berst art brut, paris, 2019. - © christian berst art brut, photo: anaïs docteur, christian berst — art brut
Eric Benetto - © christian berst — art brut
Eric Benetto - © christian berst — art brut
Eric Benetto - © christian berst — art brut
Press review
Métamorphose(s) : Publicis Luxe expose à Arles
Céline Fiat, Carnets Du Luxe. July 4, 2024.
Avec Métamorphose(s) aux Rencontres d’Arles, Publicis Luxe conforte sa démarche autour de la culture
Pascale Baziller, Influencia. July 2, 2024.
Paris+, un bilan en 12 transactions
Jordane De Faÿ, Alison Moss, Rafael Pic, Jade Pillaudin, Le Quotidien De L’art. October 31, 2022.
Premiering in the city of love, Art Basel embraces Parisian aesthetic
La Rédaction, Stir World. October 23, 2022.
la galerie christian berst présente éric benetto à paris+
Olivier De Rincquesen, Image Par JP Depersin, BFM IDF - Chercheurs D’art. October 22, 2022.
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Paris + Art Basel, dove l’arte riflette la società
La Rédaction, Exibart. October 21, 2022.
Parigi-Art Basel: due eccezionali tele verdi di Fontana accendono la rivalità tra galleristi
Francesca Pini, Corriere Della Sera. October 21, 2022.
Paris + au Grand Palais, une première réussie pour Art Basel
Laurent Boudier, Télérama. October 21, 2022.
Paris+ par Art Basel fait le plein
Jean-Christophe Castelain, Le Journal Des Arts. October 20, 2022.
Paris+ : le rendez-vous de toutes les ventes
Marine Vazzoler, Julie Chaizemartin, Le Quotidien De L’art. October 20, 2022.
Paris+ par Art Basel’s director on his long-term vision for the inaugural fair—and how it compares to Fiac
Alexandre Crochet, The Art Newspaper. October 19, 2022.
7 Questions for Gallerist Christian Berst About How He Put Art Brut on the Map
Annikka Olsen, Artnet. October 18, 2022.
Notre sélection d’artistes à voir à Paris+
Alexandre Crochet, The Art Newspaper France. October 10, 2022.
Les pépites de Paris+ par ArtBasel
Julie Chaizemartin Et Damien Aubel, Transfuge. October 1, 2022.
5 expos gratuites qui nous motivent en janvier
Maïlys Celeux-Lanval , Beaux Arts Magazine. January 2, 2022.
is there such a thing as outsider photography?
Claire Margat, Artpress. May 22, 2020.
méditation sous rayons X
Inès Boittiaux, Beaux Arts Magazine. February 13, 2019.
in pictures : exposition éric benetto
La Rédaction, The Art Newspaper Daily. February 1, 2019.
éric benetto : radiographies mystiques
François Salmeron Et Juliette Soulez, Le Quotidien De L’art. January 29, 2019.
les outsiders sortent du ghetto
Armelle Malvoisin, Beaux Arts. September 27, 2018.
art brut 2.0
Philippe Godin, Diagonale De L’art. January 13, 2017.
L’art brut sort de l’ombre
Catherine Robet, Vivre Le Territoire N°167. November 25, 2016.
Drawing Now : 10 ans et en pleine forme
Thierry Hay, Culturebox. March 30, 2016.
Drawing Now passe le cap des 10 ans
Fanny Drugeon, L’Objet D’art. March 3, 2016.
retour du carrousel
Animula Vagula. April 8, 2012.
Radiographié
Arts Magazine. March 27, 2012.
galeries une rentrée
Lunettes Rouges, Amateur D'art Par Lunettes Rouges. September 22, 2011.
Une rentrée hors les normes 2009
Bénédicte Philippe, Télérama Sortir. September 30, 2009.
une rentrée hors les normes pour Christian Berst
Le Poignard Subtil. September 6, 2009.
Collections
Carmen and Daniel Klein collection
Switzerland
Antoine Frérot collection
France
Treger Saint Silvestre collection
Portugal
Piet Meyer collection
Switzerland
collection Laurent Dumas
France
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Emmanuelle and Guy Delcourt collection
France
Hervé Lancelin collection
Luxembourg
Videos
Brut Now L’art brut au temps des nouvelles technologies
Language French
trailer - débordement #1 : les révélateurs / the pathfinders
video - the exhibition presented by the curators
éric benetto à Paris + par art basel 2022 (stand E07)
du 20 au 23 octobre 2022 au grand palais éphémère À l’occasion de la première édition de Paris +[…]
BFM - la galerie C. Berst présente E. Benetto à Paris+
Chercheurs d’art BFM IDF weekend of October 22 - 23, 2022 By Olivier de Rincquesen Image by JP[…]
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