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galerie du jour agnès bDirector : Sébasden RuizGallery creadon’s year: 1984www.galeriedujour.comjour@agnesb.fr+33 1 44 54 55 9044 rue Quincampoix75004 ParisAbdelkader Benchamma, Pile (Without regret), 2009. Felt pen and ink on paper, 190 x 130 cm © Abdelkader Benchamma, Courtesy galerie du jour agnès bFocus ardst : Abdelkader Benchamma, born in 1975Others ardsts exhibited on the booth: Hugues Reip, Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, Franck Rezzak, Tantra, Vyakul, JenCri, Jared Buckhiester, Julien Langendorff, Hiraku SuzukiPrices of the works: from 1 500 € to 2 000 €« I wanted to open a gallery to showcase what I like. We say « gallery » but we could say a place to show what's behind and the other side of things, to show paindngs, sculptures, photography and in the same dme, every dme, trying to invent new ways for pictures to circulate and stand within the reach of all: sketches, stencils, serigraphs, engravings, etc. » agnès b., 1984Opened in November 1984, the galerie du jour exhibits and supports the artwork of painters, visual ardsts and photographers such as: Kenneth Anger, Frédéric Bruly-­‐Bouabré, Lucien Hervé, Seydou Keïta, Thierry Lefébure, Jonas Mekas , Ryan McGinley, J. D. Okhai Ojeikere, Harmony Korine, Paul Seawright, Malick Sidibé, Massimo Vitali, Acharya Vyakul, Seydou Keita, Abdelkader Benchamma.Abdelkader Benchamma's drawings are inspired by visual stories arised by thoughts about space and its physical reality, the limits and impacts with our minds. His drawings operate from diversions and moduladons on the objects, demonstradng possible malfuncdons in our reladonship with others and things. It's all about considering objects as sculptures and spaces as potendel objects. Shig in the reality, intrusion of the invisible, small disasters, oral escapings form the basis of Abdelkader Benchamma's work.This ardst has been selected by Phaidon to be part of the eagerly awaited book Vitamin D that will take the inventory of a hundred of the main ardsts in contemporary drawing.Presse mappe I Seite 10