Benoit Plateus
Benoi\u0302t Plate\u0301us portrait in studio\n\nBeno\xeet Plat\xe9us\xa0(born 1972 in Li\xe8ge, Belgium) investigates the spaces and relationships between mediums, exploring abstraction in form and content.\n\nWorking across diverse media and techniques, he fully embraces the creative possibilities of both analogue and digital technologies in order to wrestle with the question of the original. Found images or objects often serve as a starting point for his work, and the transformation of these images and their meanings become his focus \u2014 aging, sunbleaching, saturating, enlarging, painting over, somehow modifying. Yet in spite of these efforts, traces of the original always remain in the new reproduced image, and Plat\xe9us highlights the poetic qualities of these accidents and imperfections.\n\nPlat\xe9us's work has been exhibited at Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Mu.ZEE, Ostend; Karma, New York; Almine Rech, London; Meessen De Clercq, Brussels; CentreWallonieBruxelles (CWB), Paris; Art Sonje Center, Seoul; Galerie Albert Baronian, Brussels; Annarumma Gallery, Naples; and Galerie Jeanroch Dard, Paris, among others. He is included in several museum collections around the world, including the Fond National d\u2019Art Contemporain, France and the Mus\xe9e d\u2019Ixelles, Belgium. In 2019, he was the subject of a mid-career retrospective\xa0One Inch Off\xa0at the WIELS Contemporary Art Centre in Brussels, which was accompanied by a fully illustrated catalog and later traveled to Bonner Kunstverein in Germany. In 2023, Plat\xe9us had his second solo exhibition, Other Percolators (https://www.signsandsymbols.art/exhibitions/other-percolators), at signs and symbols in New York.\n\nBeno\xeet Plat\xe9us, Electric Flowers, 2022, Oil on linen canvas, 23.625 x 20.87 inches (60 x 53 cm). \xa9 Beno\xeet Plat\xe9us. Courtesy of the artist and signs and symbols, New York.\n\nBeno\xeet Plat\xe9us, Hieroglyph Machine, 2022, Oil on cotton canvas, 51.25 x 61 inches (130 x 155 cm). \xa9 Beno\xeet Plat\xe9us. Courtesy of the artist and signs and symbols, New York.\n\nBeno\xeet Plat\xe9us, Oysters and Tools, 2022, Oil on cotton canvas, 61 x 51.25 inches (155 x 130 cm). \xa9 Beno\xeet Plat\xe9us. Courtesy of the artist and signs and symbols, New York.