terrorism-not-religion-weebles.jpg (2016) Digital Arts by Ben Dante

Benjamin Barbier or "Ben Dante" was born in Le Havre in 1980 but has lived in Montpellier for a long time.
An international contemporary artist, his works are marked by an expressionist tendency. His favorite themes are vanity, love, money, ... He draws around an emotion that he tries to convey, more specifically on the difficulty of existing, despair and grief.
He produces works using the Paint software because he likes to transcribe the pixelated aspect. Moreover, he comes from a "video game" generation as he describes it. Sensitive to Japanese culture, its beliefs and traditions, Ben Dante draws inspiration from this spirit to create his compositions. The idea of Yin and Yang is symbolized in the particularly black and white color treatment. From the depths of the darkness, appears the hope represented by these scattered touches of color.
Not doing a dark job, on the contrary, Ben Dante tries to represent hope in a society of despair.
Admiring the work of Basquiat, Combas, Di Rosa, Haring, Kandinsky, Calder etc...
Ben Dante seems to be part of several currents including free figuration, geometric abstraction, minimalism,...

• Nationality: FRANCE
• Date of birth : 1980
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• Groups: Contemporary French Artists