Ceysson & Bénétière

07/12/2021

This Wednesday!

07/06/2021

Coming up July 14th at 5pm and 7pm! Check out our website for more information, including the livestream links!

05/08/2021

Opening today at Ceysson & Bénétière New York, André Valensi: Oeuvres 1971-1992!

André Valensi (1947-1999) confounded peers, critics and collectors equally. It was common in the heyday of the Supports/Surfaces moment to evoke the man's angelic face and wicked temperament with the descriptive dichotomy « ange ou démon ». The work lives on to embody another more pertinent duality. His Mandala drawings, his tondo series from 1976 titled Cercles Centre Vide, and his interest in psychedelic drugs suggest an epithet that opens the door to perception. As an art maker, André Valensi is a Transformer, able creator, destroyer, revealer and concealer of all that is.

Reception from 12-7pm. On view through June 12th, 2021.

All images ©Adam Reich, courtesy of Ceysson & Bénétière
https://www.ceyssonbenetiere.com/en/exhibitions/andre-valensi-nyc-2021-1175/

04/09/2021

Huge thank you to TheGuide.Art for their write up on our current exhibition, 'LuLLabIES' with Sadie Laska and Sara Magenheimer! The show will be on view through May 1st!

Sara Magenheimer had been watching the pandemic unfold with her young son and partner from their home in Upstate New York. As the experience layered onto other disturbing memories—"children in cages, forced hysterectomies" among them haunting her particularly—she found herself unable to shake a ...

03/19/2021

Opening tomorrow, Saturday March 20th 12-7pm, Sadie Laska & Sara Magenheimer's 'LuLLabIES'!

Ceysson & Bénétière is pleased to present LuLLabIES, an exhibition of works by Sadie Laska and Sara Magenheimer. The exhibition will be on view at Ceysson & Bénétière New York from March 20th through May 1st, 2021.

Giving birth is hard for a mother, potentially deadly and likely traumatizing. It is common not to talk about the dark nuances of that joyful event, as they would cast a shadow on one’s origin story. Birth is messy, chaotic and violent, and from the outside, it can look a lot like death. This is where the snake eats its tail. Sara Magenheimer’s crib sheets printed with complex photographs of her home and studio are tucked around crib mattresses. These prone but comforting supports seem to await the souls stuck like flies to the discarded clothing in Sadie Laska’s work. This is the part of the self that comes before or after the body, the in between state of consciousness that comes immediately after death or just before birth. Woven like a lifeline through the show is a text taken from a fifty-page poem written by Magenheimer during her year of quarantine, the rise of American fascism, the violent visibility of ever-present racism, an attempted coup and the fraught transition of power between presidential administrations. The poem is a virus, language interfering with everything it touches. These works—and the flags, drawings, collages and paintings that complete the constellation of a collaboration—form a record of conversation and metabolized rage, a show borne of USPS packages and text messages between friends.

Sadie Laska, Sara Magenheimer, and Mira Dayal, January 2021

01/14/2021

Opening this Saturday January 16th from 12-7PM, Jesse Willenbring's 'Family Landscapes'.

Against the crucible of 2020, the artist was, unsurprisingly, met with the blunt basics: who and where he was, what to paint, what people might find in art right now. Without design, he leaned on his family—most frequently his 4-year-old daughter, Sena—for solicited and chance collaboration. Tender renditions of human energies and frailties were gradually cataloged in the repose and disquiet of the home and open-air home-studio. Folded into his images are not just family marks and impressions, but the insistence of his Arizona surroundings: picture-book desert, air-conditioned “nightmare,” urban sprawl, sparsely populated woodland. Nature and its human vicissitudes preside over an unnerving reality.

Images ©Adam Reich, courtesy of Ceysson & Bénétière

11/14/2020

Opening today 12-7pm! Wallace Whitney's 'Take the air' at Ceysson & Bénétière New York

To ‘take the air’ is to go on a walk outside, specifically a walk for the purpose of healing. The notion stems from the idea that in order to be healthy—both physically and mentally—one must occasionally flee the stuffiness of hazy interiors in favor of the curative air of the outdoors. In this new body of work, Wallace Whitney reconciles this pre-scientific therapy with the threat that lingers in the air we take, exploring the fault lines in what is meant to be protective and pulling from his scholarship of the historical Supports/Surfaces movement which rejected the architectural boundaries of art making.

All images ©Adam Reich

09/11/2020

Ceysson & Bénétière is pleased to present The Spaces In Between. Featuring works by Pierre Buraglio, Louis Cane, Franck Chalendard, Tomory Dodge, Noël Dolla, Sadie Laska, Lauren Luloff, Patrick Saytour, Claude Viallat, and Rachel Eulena Williams, this exhibition will be on view from September 9th through October 24th, 2020.

Ceysson & Bénétière is pleased to present The Spaces In Between. Featuring works by Pierre Buraglio, Louis Cane, Franck Chalendard, Tomory Dodge, Noël Dolla, Sadie Laska, Lauren Luloff, Patrick Saytour, Claude Viallat, and Rachel Eulena Williams, this exhibition will be on view from September 9th through October 24th, 2020.

The Spaces In Between is an immersive proposition to consider the significance of what has been previously left unexamined or relegated to the background. So much lingers in negative spaces. Whether that be a window, a pause, or a transition between seasons, that which is considered empty or latent is, in fact, teeming with possibility. This exhibition brings together ten artists that use negative space, transparency, and motion in a way that engages with their surroundings, collapses the barrier between interior and exterior, and celebrates that that which happens in the interim.

09/11/2020

06/29/2020

We are so pleased to announce that our New York location is officially open to the public! Our summer hours are Monday through Friday 11am-6pm.

We very much look forward to welcoming you back!

06/19/2019

Ceysson & Bénétière is pleased to present "Manger des olives et faire l'amour", featuring new works by Franck Chalendard. The exhibition will run from June 19 through July 31, 2019.

05/02/2019

Featuring works by Daniel Firman. Exhibition runs from May 2nd through June 15th.

03/16/2019

PB, 1978-2018. Exhibition runs from March 7th until April 27th, 2019.

02/05/2019

Opening reception tonight (Feb. 5th) 6-8pm!

Curated by Eric Palgon.
Exhibition runs from February 5th through March 2nd, 2019.

02/05/2019

Curated by Eric Palgon.
Exhibition runs from February 5th through March 2nd, 2019.

01/17/2019

Featuring works by Aurélie Pétrel. Exhibition runs from December 12th through January 26th.

10/06/2018

Featuring works by Louis Cane. This show will run from October 2-December 1, 2018.

07/24/2018

Featuring works by Louis Cane, Joe Bradley, Pierre Buraglio, Erik Lindman, Sam Moyer and Jean-Pierre Pincemin. This show will run from July 14-September 29, 2018.

06/19/2018

Featuring paintings by Jesse Willenbring. This show runs from May 4- June 30, 2018.

06/19/2018

Featuring paintings and sculptures by Louis Cane, Mike Cloud, Sadie Laska, Kayode Ojo, Claude Viallat, and Rachel Eulena Williams. This show runs from January 23- February 24, 2018.

06/19/2018

Featuring new paintings by Wallace Whitney. This exhibit runs from March 6-April 21, 2018.

06/19/2018

Featuring works by Patrick Saytour. This show runs from November 17-December 23, 2017.

10/27/2017

Featuring new paintings and sculptures by Lauren Luloff. The show runs from September 20 - November 04, 2017.

10/27/2017

The inaugural show for Ceysson & Bénétière's new space in New York features recent and historical works by one of the leading figures of the Supports/Surfaces movement, Claude Viallat. The show runs from May 6 - July 15, 2017.