FRANCE
With his subtle, wry sense of humour, sometimes disguised, for the sake of provocation, under a more cheek-in-tongue playfulness, Marcel Bénaïs is a very cerebral artist, who indulges in the intellectual pleasure of deconstructing the masterpieces of the Great Art in a perfectly post-modern game or of borrowing the style of 20th century idols, like Picasso and Basquiat, just so that he can tell us a story about a perfectly banal afternoon on Ïle de Ré or slide in a very distilled eroticism.