22 gen 2010

ESCAPE ARTIST, Benoit Pailley looks at Andrea Bianconi for Double magazin (GB)

Fall 2008, Issue 16, p. 10

Alice Bertay, Stylist

Patricia Regan, Hair/Make up

Marlon Daube, Assistan Stylist

Benoit Pailley presents this collaboration with Italian arist Andrea Bianconi and stylist Alice Bertay. With this assignment for Double, Pailley brought to life Bianconi’s art practice of sculpture, collage and painting. Bianconi invents costume accesories in the manner of his work that reveal his preoccupations (paranoia, fantasia and escapism) while Bertay styles his cast of characters. Like his sculptures, Bianconi, now the subject, is posed in a gallery environment of gray floor and white wall, while Pailley assumes the role of artist and manipulates his form/model into contortions that are surreal, humorous and bizarre.

photo courtesy ©Benoit Pailley