{"id":496827,"date":"2022-12-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/numero.com\/art\/design\/french-artist-nadjib-ben-ali-finds-the-raw-material-for-his-flamboyant-paintings-in-football-rap-videos-and-hitchcock-movies\/"},"modified":"2022-12-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","slug":"french-artist-nadjib-ben-ali-finds-the-raw-material-for-his-flamboyant-paintings-in-football-rap-videos-and-hitchcock-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/numero.com\/en\/art-design\/design-en\/french-artist-nadjib-ben-ali-finds-the-raw-material-for-his-flamboyant-paintings-in-football-rap-videos-and-hitchcock-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"French artist Nadjib Ben Ali finds the raw material for his flamboyant paintings in football, rap videos and Hitchcock movies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n            <div class=\"wp-block-cb-carousel cb-single-slide\" 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When he sees a frame he likes he takes a screenshot of it, which he then stores in a database to rival the Cin\u00e9math\u00e8que fran\u00e7aise.<em> \u201cI\u2019m a real image cannibal, hungry for shapes, colours and compositions.\u201d <\/em>Some remind him of the master of suspense, others of Michelangelo. Hands touching, a close up of the back of the neck, a wide shot of a crowd. Legs intertwined. Faces marked by failure or victory. Ben Ali then compiles and reproduces these scenes as drawings \u2013 the physical manifestation of a virtual fantasy. If necessary, he reframes them, the spontaneous line of the marker pen giving them (new) life. Then comes the moment when they are transposed into paintings.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><em><strong>\u201cMy goal has always been to reproduce a marker-pen line in my painting.\u201d<\/strong><\/em> To this end he invents his own tools: paint pencils made from glue sticks&nbsp;into which he inserts synthetic fabric (a soccer jersey, for instance). <em>\u201cFor me drawing is like learning a choreography, memorizing a gesture that I\u2019ll reproduce later on canvas.\u201d <\/em>Plunging his DIY pencils into acrylic paint, he mixes the pigments to recreate the brilliance of the screen on which the image first appeared. If necessary, he adds a little glycerol,<em> \u201cfor a brighter black in the eye.\u201d <\/em>When he paints, Ben Ali looks as much to his drawing (for the materiality of the line and the gesture) as to the original image (for the composition). <em>\u201cBut painting always wins,\u201d <\/em>he concedes. <em>\u201cI can change a colour, even if it is not identical to the screenshot or drawing because the balance of the painting calls for it.\u201d<\/em> Which he sometimes does to the point of abstraction.<\/p>\r\n\n                    <figure data-wp-context=\"{&quot;imageId&quot;:&quot;6a215994574d8&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" data-wp-key=\"6a215994574d8\" class=\"wp-block-image size-medium-large wp-lightbox-container\">\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--pointerdown=\"actions.preloadImage\" data-wp-on--pointerenter=\"actions.preloadImageWithDelay\" data-wp-on--pointerleave=\"actions.cancelPreload\" data-wp-on-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" src=\"https:\/\/numero.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/nadjib-ben-ali-gucci-jeune-artiste-hitchcock-football-numero-art-magazine-3_0-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1568\" \/><button\n\t\t\tclass=\"lightbox-trigger\"\n\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\taria-haspopup=\"dialog\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--aria-label=\"state.thisImage.triggerButtonAriaLabel\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-init=\"callbacks.initTriggerButton\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-style--right=\"state.thisImage.buttonRight\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-style--top=\"state.thisImage.buttonTop\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\" fill=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 12 12\">\n\t\t\t\t<path fill=\"#fff\" d=\"M2 0a2 2 0 0 0-2 2v2h1.5V2a.5.5 0 0 1 .5-.5h2V0H2Zm2 10.5H2a.5.5 0 0 1-.5-.5V8H0v2a2 2 0 0 0 2 2h2v-1.5ZM8 12v-1.5h2a.5.5 0 0 0 .5-.5V8H12v2a2 2 0 0 1-2 2H8Zm2-12a2 2 0 0 1 2 2v2h-1.5V2a.5.5 0 0 0-.5-.5H8V0h2Z\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t<\/button>\n                    <figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Nadjib Ben Ali, \u201cWelcome to Chouineville\u201d (2022). Acrylic on canvas, 89 x 116 cm.<\/figcaption>\n                    <\/figure>\n                    \n                    <h2><u>A strong taste for dramaturgy<\/u><\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Ben Ali is not the first artist to take an interest in the dramaturgy of soccer.<\/strong> In 2006, Philippe Parreno and Douglas Gordon made <i>Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait<\/i>, for which they filmed the soccer star with several cameras from different angles for the entire duration of a match. Every move was captured, alongside nervousness, indecision, indifference, solidarity and isolation. After 90 minutes, these fragments come together to form a whole, a vertiginous over-presence of a man, a dramatic hero. This same feeling of drama and dizzying wholeness is found in Ben Ali\u2019s paintings. <em>\u201cI\u2019m not interested in a particular soccer player but in professional soccer, the big sponsor ads, the spectators in the stadiums. I want to be in their place, I want it all to belong to me. I like the dramaturgy. Soccer players aren\u2019t actors; they\u2019re focused on the game and aren\u2019t in control of their affects. Their weakness is exposed. I like this idea, them lying down, overwhelmed, wounded.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\r\n\n                    <figure data-wp-context=\"{&quot;imageId&quot;:&quot;6a2159945781f&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" data-wp-key=\"6a2159945781f\" class=\"wp-block-image size-medium-large wp-lightbox-container\">\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--pointerdown=\"actions.preloadImage\" data-wp-on--pointerenter=\"actions.preloadImageWithDelay\" data-wp-on--pointerleave=\"actions.cancelPreload\" data-wp-on-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" src=\"https:\/\/numero.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/nadjib-ben-ali-gucci-jeune-artiste-hitchcock-football-numero-art-magazine-2_0-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1568\" \/><button\n\t\t\tclass=\"lightbox-trigger\"\n\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\taria-haspopup=\"dialog\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--aria-label=\"state.thisImage.triggerButtonAriaLabel\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-init=\"callbacks.initTriggerButton\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-style--right=\"state.thisImage.buttonRight\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-style--top=\"state.thisImage.buttonTop\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\" fill=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 12 12\">\n\t\t\t\t<path fill=\"#fff\" d=\"M2 0a2 2 0 0 0-2 2v2h1.5V2a.5.5 0 0 1 .5-.5h2V0H2Zm2 10.5H2a.5.5 0 0 1-.5-.5V8H0v2a2 2 0 0 0 2 2h2v-1.5ZM8 12v-1.5h2a.5.5 0 0 0 .5-.5V8H12v2a2 2 0 0 1-2 2H8Zm2-12a2 2 0 0 1 2 2v2h-1.5V2a.5.5 0 0 0-.5-.5H8V0h2Z\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t<\/button>\n                    <figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Nadjib Ben Ali,  \u201cVitevitevite\u201d (2022). 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Photo: Eva Wang. Styling: Ferdi Sibbel.<\/figcaption>\n                    <\/figure>\n                    \n                    <h2><u>An&nbsp;eclectic approach to painting<\/u><\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>The artist has developed an obsession with necks, like the Dardenne brothers who filmed their actors from behind as way of showing a character in a weakened state.<\/strong> Viewers become voyeurs, stalkers with total power over their prey. In Ben Ali\u2019s work, the nape of the neck becomes a source of eroticism, the viewer glimpsing a patch of skin peeking out between the hairline and the jersey. This fetish for body parts, and the clothing that dissimulates them, feeds an underlying homo- eroticism. Beyond Hitchcock, the movie reference here is Brian de Palma, another master of composition and patent fetishist (<i>Pulsions<\/i>, <i>Body Double<\/i>). One of Ben Ali\u2019s recent canvases once again focuses on a face, but it is wearing the white mask of John Carpenter\u2019s <i>Halloween <\/i>serial killer. The fluorescent red light that illuminates it against a black background radiates violence and absence; it is impossible to interpret the expression. Upon closer inspection, one sees the character is shedding tears of blood.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><em><strong>\u201cMy new <\/strong><\/em><strong>Mixtape <\/strong><em><strong>series is based on images that aren\u2019t necessarily from soccer.<\/strong><\/em> <em>The mask was worn by a young boy in PNL\u2019s Simba video. Then I saw it again in another rapper\u2019s video. I had my image: a bleeding world. Now I\u2019m working on finding that light so specific to computer screens, more so than in my soccer series. For this I use fluorescent, almost phosphorescent colors. The whole thing is more Pop, very 70s.\u201d<\/em> It recalls the paintings of Nina Childress, the mode by turns figurative and abstract, exploring styles with a certain extravagance. Both respond to the question of how to turn an image into painting using multiple approaches: hyper-realist, almost to the point of caricature, combining classicism, kitsch, Pop art, bad painting and Abstract Expressionism. These stylistic deviations are in themselves a powerful commentary on the hierarchies within art and society \u2013 like finding Michelangelo at a soccer match.<\/p>\r\n\n                    <figure data-wp-context=\"{&quot;imageId&quot;:&quot;6a21599457e8d&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" data-wp-key=\"6a21599457e8d\" class=\"wp-block-image size-medium-large wp-lightbox-container\">\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--pointerdown=\"actions.preloadImage\" data-wp-on--pointerenter=\"actions.preloadImageWithDelay\" data-wp-on--pointerleave=\"actions.cancelPreload\" data-wp-on-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" src=\"https:\/\/numero.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/nadjib-ben-ali-gucci-jeune-artiste-hitchcock-football-numero-art-magazine-1-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1568\" \/><button\n\t\t\tclass=\"lightbox-trigger\"\n\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\taria-haspopup=\"dialog\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--aria-label=\"state.thisImage.triggerButtonAriaLabel\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-init=\"callbacks.initTriggerButton\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-style--right=\"state.thisImage.buttonRight\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-style--top=\"state.thisImage.buttonTop\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\" fill=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 12 12\">\n\t\t\t\t<path fill=\"#fff\" d=\"M2 0a2 2 0 0 0-2 2v2h1.5V2a.5.5 0 0 1 .5-.5h2V0H2Zm2 10.5H2a.5.5 0 0 1-.5-.5V8H0v2a2 2 0 0 0 2 2h2v-1.5ZM8 12v-1.5h2a.5.5 0 0 0 .5-.5V8H12v2a2 2 0 0 1-2 2H8Zm2-12a2 2 0 0 1 2 2v2h-1.5V2a.5.5 0 0 0-.5-.5H8V0h2Z\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t<\/button>\n                    <figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Nadjib Ben Ali, \u201cMiskinament\u00e9, part. 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