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About - Benjamin Jeanjean

Benjamin Jeanjean drawings make the viewer confront their own vanity and covert desires and unfold the depths of their subconscious by turning objects into symbols and vice versa

Benjamin Jeanjean

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Biography

Searching for reality in the unconscious, broadening the human logic with absurdity, following a philosophy based on irrationality – Benjamin JeanJean’s art is the result of a constant search for an open mind. His profound drawings make the viewer confront their own vanity and covert desires and unfold the depths of their subconscious by turning objects into symbols and vice versa.

“Everyone sees something different in my pictures, depending on their individual perception and associations”, says BJJ. “In fact I’m only providing them the object and their imagination turns it into a symbol.”

Based in Southwest France, Benjamin JeanJean’s artwork stands for a neo-symbolism based on contemporary aesthetics. By combining linear elements with ephemeral objects he creates subtle sequences of the modern world that provoke images and emotions but leave the observer to associate with them.

text by Mel Schontier // photo by Christian Fischer

Exhibitions

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DESILLUSION X BENJAMIN JEANJEAN

Art, collaboration, instalations

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140 SKINS

Art, instalations

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96 EYES

Art, instalations

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Subconscious vanities

Art, instalations

2016

TRUE STORIES / SOLO SHOW / ADHOCPAD GALERIE / VIENNA / AUSTRIA
ADVANCE / GROUP SHOW / DARWIN LES SAUVAGES / BORDEAUX / FRANCE
ART IN HOUSE / GROUP SHOW / STREET /CAPBRETON / FRANCE
CYAN/ANTHRACITE / GROUP SHOW / AFFENFAUST GALERIE / HAMBURG / GERMANY

2015

RIDE THE WALL / GROUP SHOW / GENEVA / SWITZERLAND

2014

COUNTER CULTURE / GROUP SHOW / HAMBURG / GERMANY
INVISIBLE SOCIETY / GROUP SHOW /CIRCLE CULTURE GALERIE / BERLIN / GERMANY
LORDS OF GROUND / GROUP SHOW / OLATU / ANGLET / FRANCE

2013

RVCA BIG TRAIL / GROUP SHOW / BERLIN / GERMANY
RVCA BIG TRAIL / GROUP SHOW / MILAN / ITALY
RVCA BIG TRAIL / GROUP SHOW / LONDON / ENGLAND
RVCA CARAVAN TOUR / GROUP SHOW / ART PARK GALERIE / BYRON BAY / MELBOURNE / AUSTRALIA
THE BLIND SOCIETY / GROUP SHOW / CHOQUE CULTURAL GALERIE / SAO PAULO / BRASIL

2012

ATELIER POP SURREALIST / GROUP SHOW / MONDO POP GALERIE / ROMA / ITALY
BRIGHT TRADESHOW / RVCA / BERLIN / GERMANY

2011

A NIGHT IN SITE / GROUP SHOW / MUNICH / GERMANY