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Untitled, 2023
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Engramme Ashes, 2023
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Events, 2020
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Rayon fossile II, 2020
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Structure carriére, 2019-2023
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Structure carriére marbres, 2019-2023
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Book of Events – Light, 2019
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Sculpture (Jeux), 2017
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Fiction-rayon bleu, 2016
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Random 150, 2014
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Maquette sculpture A, 2013
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Maquette sculpture C, 2013
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Signal faible 5. Representation de deux signaux, 2011
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Signal Faible 9. La chute des hommes en noirs, 2011
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Random 20, 2011
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Random 88, 2011
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Random Sin título 3, 2011
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Who tries to escape to his becoming? 10, 2010
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Et ils se cherchèrent, cherchèrent..., 2010
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Random 49, 2009
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Sans titre, 2008
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Shower 02, 2008
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Strange manifestation, 2008
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ST (Who tries to escape to his becoming? 4), 2008
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The Horizon Promises to be Fine, 2008
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Who tries to escape to his becoming? 05, 2008
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Who tries to escape to his becoming? 06, 2008
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Who tries to escape to his becoming? 03, 2008
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Sans titre, 2007
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Push, 2007
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Sans Titre 02, 2007
Over the years, Abdelkader Benchamma has built a body of work that focuses on drawing. His artistic practice has evolved throughout his career, absorbing references from classical drawing, scientific modeling, comics, Japanese prints and literature. That said, Benchamma´s drawings are not only delicate and highly sophisticated technical creations, but they also contain a deep reflection on the states of matter and the relationship of humans with the physical and metaphysical environment. The aesthetic evolution of his compositions goes hand in hand with the contents he explores and thus a transformation that goes from the figurative to the abstract and from the individual to the cosmic, can be seen. Benchamma proposes an expanded drawing that overflows the boundaries of the paper to occupy the exhibition space, creating a new dimension that surrounds the viewer.
Abdelkader Benchamma studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Montpellier and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts of Paris. He has created drawn murals at the Boghossian Foundation in Brussels, at the panarab exhibition in Venice during the 54º Biennal, and at the Collège des Bernadins in due to the Nuit Blanche of Paris in 2018. He has shown individually at MRAC Sérignan (2019), also at the CENTQUATRE-Paris (2018), and at The Blueproject Foundation Barcelona (2016). His pieces can be found in public collections such as the FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon, the Musee de Beaux Arts-Orleans in France and the MATHAF, Musée Arab d’Art Moderne et Contemporain in Doha, Qatar. Benchamma was included in the Phaidon book Vitamin D: New Perspectives on Drawing, a global survey on contemporary drawing that presents 115 artists selected by internationally renowned critics and curators . In 2018 he was awarded with the Occitaine-Médicis 1º prize.
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Structures et éclats
Abdelkader Benchamma 14 Sep - 11 Nov 2023 Locker RoomBringing together a series of drawings that, with particular attention to his early explorations, this exhibition allow us to delve into the continuities and transformations in the artist's work. ...More information -
Rayon Fossile
Abdelkader Benchamma 12 Dec 2020 - 27 Feb 2021 ADN GaleriaAbdelkader Benchamma’s artistic practice focuses on drawing. An expanded drawing that overflows the limits of the paper and occupies the exhibition space creating a new dimension that surrounds the viewer....More information -
5994 is just a number
Group show 10 Oct - 30 Nov 2019 ADN GaleriaWithin the framework of Barcelona Gallery Weekend 2019, we are presenting a collective exhibition with the artists who we work for; some of them since the beginning, and others who...More information -
Ten is more than a number
Group Show 29 Jun - 30 Nov 2013 ADN GaleriaOn June the 29th , ADN Galería presents 10 IS MORE THAN A NUMBER, a group show which compiles works by all the artists working with the gallery to celebrate...More information -
Signal Faible
Abdelkader Benchamma 16 Sep - 5 Nov 2011 ADN GaleriaFrom a practice conceived initially as a kind of writing, with a particular emphasis on the drawing’s graphical properties and the flexibility of line, the French artist formulated in the...More information -
Même les choses invisbles se cachent
Abdelkader Benchamma 18 Sep - 1 Nov 2008 ADN GaleriaBorn in 1975 in Algeria and living now in Montpellier, Benchamma developed a deeprooted passion for drawing and artistic notions since his childhood. He was used to transfer his interests...More information