Flipch Art
Benoit Piret
The series Flipch Art by Benoit Piret stands out thanks to the contrast that forms it and the sensory storm it provokes. To glance through all of it, no matter the order, as it disputes the need for order, the raw reality disintegrates as the images pass by: affinities, aversions, struggles, irony, rebelliousness, humour, nostalgia and aesthetic inspirations of the artist. “His universe with perverted glamour or erected as a martyr summons up a strangely childish blur and a profoundly adult sadness" (Marie Arquié). The originality of the approach is first found in his format: a form of recycling that has never been seen before, far removed from those in vogue with nature’s friends. To create the works of this series, Piret shows up at the end of business, research or NGO seminars and uses their used flipcharts, the large sheets of paper used in presentations, as his raw materials. In a stencil style made from Chinese inks and splatters of colour, images of dramatic news - war, AK-47s, exoduses, pateras, camps, barbed wires - but also from wild nature, femininity, consumption and icons, like those made at the Factory, cover, short-circuit or elevate the brainstorming diagrams, strategic plans, mind-mapping arrows, sales curves, emotional pictograms and opinion diagrams. This confrontation in union, these strange and honest interferences break codes without offering up any decoding. All are invited to project their own feelings and make their own sense of it.