Amel Bennys, Born 1970, Tunis, Tunisia / Live and works in Tunis, Tunisia
For Bennys, colour functions as a structure and an object within a space. Working primarily between painting and sculpture, layered textures and pigments are explored, these manifestations offer a distinctive visual language, which can be recognised throughout her extensive body of work. Colour can be seen as an element whereby investigations of forms of architecture can be articulated. Through her approach of building layers of pigments, a process that results in the material being transformed; colour takes on its own form and becomes an object within itself.
She earned a MFA from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France.
Her works have been recently exhibited at Lehman College Art Gallery, New York, USA / KINDL Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany / Skoto Gallery, New York, USA. Bennys has been the recipient of several awards including: The Jackson Pollock Prize, 2019, Villa Medicis "Hors les Murs", "Les Etoiles de la Peinture" prize, which resulted in an exhibition at Maeght Gallery, Paris, France and Barcelona, Spain. In 2012, she was artist in residence at the Josef & Anni Albers Foundation, Connecticut, Bethany.
For Bennys, colour functions as a structure and an object within a space. Working primarily between painting and sculpture, layered textures and pigments are explored, these manifestations offer a distinctive visual language, which can be recognised throughout her extensive body of work. Colour can be seen as an element whereby investigations of forms of architecture can be articulated. Through her approach of building layers of pigments, a process that results in the material being transformed; colour takes on its own form and becomes an object within itself.
She earned a MFA from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France.
Her works have been recently exhibited at Lehman College Art Gallery, New York, USA / KINDL Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany / Skoto Gallery, New York, USA. Bennys has been the recipient of several awards including: The Jackson Pollock Prize, 2019, Villa Medicis "Hors les Murs", "Les Etoiles de la Peinture" prize, which resulted in an exhibition at Maeght Gallery, Paris, France and Barcelona, Spain. In 2012, she was artist in residence at the Josef & Anni Albers Foundation, Connecticut, Bethany.