Portraits, religious subjects, individuals in various situations, where human dramas are mingled with poetry, the oil paintings of Benoît Maurin-Ducolibri hallucinate and prompt to reflexion, because of their provocative aspect.
Since the age of four, Benoît Maurin-Ducolibri paints under the careful eye of his grandfather, the Provence painter Edmond Duplan-Colibri.
Possessed, inhabited every instant of his life by the misery of the world, Benoît Maurin Ducolibri expresses, through impressive works, sometimes monumental, the difficult life of millions of people, threatened by starvation, disease, nuisances, pollutions, or all kind of evils, aberrations or existential sufferings, hidden in the true of life or in the consciousness of Man. At the contact of these works, the spectator will never stay without loss.
However, even if the artist brings this suffering to light, as a mean of liberation for him, offering images sometimes unbearable, his talent, developing over thirty years and his sensitivity allow him to wine over these images and to free himself. Reflect a very hard reality, his painted visions are bearing however a dim of hope, the artist being impregnated by a deep faith. Of apparent non issue, there is a way of redemption to be found in his sceneries. According to the artist, there is even “a path leaving behind a strange perfume of serenity”.
Benoît Maurin-Ducolibri, who realizes his first exhibition in Switzerland, presents, in exclusivity, and for the first time, a series of oil painted portraits and mixed resins, accompanied by other works expressing a strange and dramatic beauty, which need to be discovered absolutely.
Benoît Maurin-Ducolibri is graduated from the Fine Arts School in Marseille.
Present in various European artistic centres, he is at the moment in Milan, New York, Brussels, Cannes…
Invited by the Mairie de Paris at the Cloître des Billettes in September 2007, he retains the attention of the medias. Besides, in September 2007, he offered a monumental work (6.30 x 2.80 m.) entitled “La Cène”, to the Fondation pour la Promotion de l’Homme, which can be seen by the public at the Grand Temple in Paris.
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