Ben Arpea
location: Paris, FranceBorn into a family of art lovers and collectors, Ben Arpea has been immersed in a rich artistic universe since childhood, where he began creating, drawing, and painting. Ben Arpea gained recognition in 2020 with a series of paintings in which he developed a singular artistic language characterised by geometric abstraction evolving towards the semi-figurative, utilising flat areas of colour and texture. He pays homage to the figures of modern and contemporary art that he admires – Tom Wesselmann, David Hockney, Jonas Wood, André Breton – and is fully part of a new generation of creators from art, design and fashion, celebrating colour and material in a simple and immediate relationship with the times. Anchored in a dreamlike dimension oscillating between semi-figurative and abstract expressionism, Ben Arpea’s work questions the century-old motifs and canons of classical landscape and still life, reinterpreted through a contemporary artistic language. Between the real and the unreal, Ben Arpea paints frozen and perfect images, proposing a moving interpretation of pop art and surrealism. Ben Arpea always draws his inspiration from suspended moments, gleaned from his travels.
Ben Arpea invites the viewer to enter into synesthesia with his paintings, each one being invited to project his or her own memories in an intimate and familiar dialogue. Omnipresent in his creations, the dream becomes a poetic experience that translates on the canvas by singular forms and meticulous work on colours and textures, infusing his work with a melancholic and unreal softness.
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