This autumn, Arsenal Contemporary Art Montreal is pleased to welcome Benoît Maire for a residency. The French artist will be in preparation for his solo exhibition Cloud Paintings, presented from Nov 15, 2017 to Jan 14, 2018, at Arsenal Contemporary Art New York.

About

Since 2008, Benoît Maire has started writing a manual of aesthetics where images, objects and writing take form to bring forth some of contemporary aesthetics' main issues. Starting from the differend (insurmountable conflict) between saying and seeing, Benoît Maire works in an in-between where art and philosophy merge into a practical use where forms spread out and surpass one another. Neither philosophy, nor art, the Aesthetics of differends looks to corrupt classical formats by the experimental use of theory.

Benoît Maire was born in 1978 in Pessac (France). Graduated from Palais de Tokyo in 2006, the Arson Villa in 2003 and Sorbonne in 2002, he lives and works in Bordeaux. His recent exhibitions include: In Hawaï at the Centre d’art contemporain des Tanneries (Amilly, France), Laicriture at the Musée archéologique Henri Prades (Montpellier, France), Thebes at CAPC - Musée d'art Contemporain de Bordeaux (France), Disaster at Croy Nielsen Gallery (Vienna, Austria), Cloud Paintings at Arsenal Contemporary Art New York (United States), Castled at joségarcía (Mérida, Mexico), Castling the Queen at Meessen de Clercq (Brussels, Belgium), Letre at La Verrière-Fondation Hermès (Brussels, Belgium) and The Object of Criticism at the Vleeshal Center for Contemporary Art (Middelburg, Netherlands). Benoît Maire is represented by Galerie Nathalie Obadia (Paris/Brussels), Croy Nielsen (Vienna, Austria), joségarcía (Mérida, Mexico) and Meessen de Clercq (Brussels, Belgium).