During the 47th FIAC edition, Rupture & Associés partnered with Templon Gallery to give Abdelkader Benchamma, a French renowned painter, a carte blanche to turn our classic Hausmannian premises into a mesmerizing installation of black & white lines freeing themselves from their initial canvas to take on the entire space.

In 2011, Benchamma participated in the Future of a Promise exhibition for Arab artists which took place on Zaterre at the same time as the Venice Biennale. He was commissioned for the Told Untold Retold exhibition at the Mathaf Museum, Doha, Qatar. In July 2012 he had a solo exhibition of ultra-detailed pen drawings, Corrupted Theories, at the Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde, Dubai.

Benchamma creates delicately executed drawings of states of matter, events and explosions animated by a wide range of dynamics. He is strongly influenced by theories of astrophysics and cosmology, as well as existentialist theatre and literary investigations.
He explores natural and primordial forms of matter. In his series of ‘Sculpture’ drawings, the monolithic forms and piles develop organically on the page. Suggestions of organic and mineral forms emerge in the fluid patterns, recalling the strength of mountain landscapes or planes of greenery.

Revealing under his brushstrokes a nebulous energetic current inspired by ancient scientific and poetic images, the “Echoes” exhibit is typical of Abdelkader’s exhilarating work where shapes and patterns repeat and blend in hallucinatory drawings saturated with speed rendering, a powerful flow of energy through abstract galactic tracings swirling around the space.

Abdelkader Benchamma was recently hosted and exhibited at the Collection Lambert in Avignon and is an acknowledged name in the international contemporary art scene.