Fascinated by Niemeyer’s works, Jacques Benoit celebrates the architectural quintessence of buildings in all its splendour. By investing the canvas where it glows like a shining jewel, the architecture makes one forget about the city, secretively suggested by the figures as they join in the artist’s architectural reverie. And these often enigmatic characters offer themselves up to the viewer, who builds nebulous, lasting relationships with the figured architecture in the pictures, yet anchored in each person’s unconscious.

Acting as what Merleau-Ponty called a “voyant”, one can surrender then to poetic meditation, and gain a more intimate knowledge of the work.

Gilbert Luigi (2006 / 2010)