Julien Beneyton — À propos — Slash Paris

Julien Beneyton takes a simple and uncluttered look at his times,
at the people he loves or hates,
they are alive, sometimes exposed and all of them,
destined for earthly storms,
all of them hidden in the slight furrows of his paintings on wood.

PASCALE MARTHINE TAYOU
Artist
Extract from the text « Compact version out now! »

His fellow man is his central preoccupation. (…)
Julien Beneyton does not accept the world as it goes. The manner of his criticism is nevertheless distinct from the way others criticise the world. He is not a distinguished artist. He is very much a living part of the world he paints. His paintings rub our noses in it. It offers asylum.

CHRISTIAN BERNARD
Director of Mamco, Geneva
Extract from the text « An artist of local life »

Julien Beneyton never wallows in the sordid or indulgent. (…) He is one of those artists who has chosen to paint the world not as it should be but as it is, in a raw manner, openly and with no moralizing.

RICHARD LEYDIER
Editor in Chief for Artpress
Extract form the text « Human Brothers »

In his visual transcription, he gets us to reread what we can no longer see in the scrambled images filtered by our various screens.

ANTOINE DE GALBERT
Collector and founder of La Maison Rouge Foundation, Paris
Extract from the text « Out of step »