Jonathan binet biography

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Jonathan Binet makes paintings with a marked character as objects, though at the same time they are clearly graphic, like drawings traced on the wall of the exhibition space.

Balanced between drawing and sculpture, but also between abundant forms and terse geometric formulations; assemblages and deconstructions; “finished” and “unfinished”. Distributed in the exhibition space according to installation logic that calls into play the autonomy of the work and its relationship to the context, Binet’s paintings are “fields of possibility” in which the artist asserts his right to creative freedom.

This assertion is an empirical procedure, of stops and starts, errors, changes of direction. The results are ghosts of harmonious compositions, because they manifest the will of the artist to be extraneous to any discursive, productive and distributive apparatus of painting.

Among the works Binet has made for Galleria Mazzoli, there are both new iterations of gest