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Spectacle 01 (2020) – EUR 2'800
Mixed Media on Board
100 x 80 cm
Spectacle 02 (2020) – EUR 1’900
Football Pieces Assemblage
30 x 15 cm
L'Échelle (The Ladder) (2018) – EUR 7'000
Steel - Edition of 3
300 x 150 cm
CV (Curriculum Vitae) (2019) – EUR 6'000
Cooker & Stickers - Edition of 3
20 x 16.5 cm
Ma Ana Bi Kari' (I don't know how to read) (2019) – EUR 4’500
Neon Light Installation - Edition of 3, in different colors
37 x 145 cm
Bibliothèque Arabe (Arab Bookshelf) (2017) – EUR 6'000
Library, Kitchenware and Coran - Edition of 3
200 x 140 cm
Bibliothèque Arabe (Arab Bookshelf) (2017)
Photograph of the Installation - EUR 150
Inkjet Print on Fine Art Paper - Edition of 30
24 x 20 cm
Parole Étouffée (Muffled Word) (2019) – EUR 4'500
Mixed Media Installation
70 x 25 cm
Haraga (The Burned) (2019) – EUR 1'200
Watercolor and Glitter on Paper
29.7 x 42 cm
Les Moutonneux (The Sheep) (2019) – EUR 1’200
Watercolor and Glitter on Paper
29.7 x 42 cm
Montagne de Cendre (Mountain of Ash) (2019) – RESERVED
Charcoal on Paper
80 x 120 cm
La (No) (2019) – EUR 600
Inkjet Print on Fine Art Paper - Edition of 6
29.7 x 42 cm
Maquette d'un Cube (Blueprint of a Cube) (2014) – EUR 900
Pencil and Glitter on Paper
29.7 x 42 cm
Flûte (Flute) (2014) – EUR 900
Pencil and Glitter on Paper
29.7 x 42 cm
Partout (Everywhere) (2014) – RESERVED
Pencil and Glitter on Paper
29.7 x 42 cm
Négrier (Slave Ship) (2014) – RESERVED
Pencil and Glitter on Paper
29.7 x 42 cm
Balançoire (Swing) (2014) – EUR 900
Pencil and Glitter on Paper
29.7 x 42 cm
Issue de Secours (Emergency Exit) 10 (2020) – EUR 300
Inkjet Print on Fine Art Paper - Edition of 30
29.7 x 42 cm
Issue de Secours (Emergency Exit) 03 (2020) – EUR 300
Inkjet Print on Fine Art Paper - Edition of 30
29.7 x 42 cm
Issue de Secours (Emergency Exit) 04 (2020) – EUR 300
Inkjet Print on Fine Art Paper - Edition of 30
29.7 x 42 cm
Issue de Secours (Emergency Exit) 01 (2020) – EUR 300
Inkjet Print on Fine Art Paper - Edition of 30
29.7 x 42 cm
Bousculade (Jostling) (2020) – EUR 3'000
Charcoal on Canvas
75 x 115 cm
ADEL BENTOUNSI
(ALGERIA, 1982)
Adel Bentounsi is an Algerian contemporary visual artist born in 1982 in Annaba, Algeria. He graduated from the Annaba School of Fine Arts in 2007. In 2013 Bentounsi entered the Dunkerque Higher School of Arts to complete his studies.
The artist works on existential questions and tries to interpret the reality translated by the societies from different angles and points of view, mostly religious, political, or social. He believes that creating art is an act of genuine resistance and envisions the work of art as a collection of debris from random accidents.
Adel Bentounsi's artistic practice is extensively wide and exercised in different media, such as photography, video art, performance, theatre, painting, drawing, installation, and graphic art, which he all considers as osmotically intertwined.
Bentounsi's work is part of important Middle Eastern and European art collections and has been shown in North Africa, the USA, France and the Middle East, most notably at the Dak'Art Off Biennial (Senegal, 2014, 2016 & 2018), at the Quinzaine des Réalisteurs, Festival de Cannes (France, 2016), the Beirut Art Fair (Lebanon, 2016 & 2017), at the Institut du Monde Arabe (France, 2018), and at the Wallach Art Gallery of Columbia University (USA, 2019).
Selected Exhibitions & Collections
Solo exhibitions
2021 « Burn » - Kloser Contemporary Art
2019 « Chuchotement » - Institut Français d’Annaba – Annaba, Algeria
2018 Residency and Exhibition - Le Relais - Tangiers, Morocco
2018 « L’Echelle » - Institut Français d’Annaba – Annaba, Algeria
2017 Contemporary Art Biennial of Beirut – Beirut, Lebanon
2017 Beirut Art Fair – Beirut, Lebanon
2016 Beirut Art Fair – Beirut, Lebanon
Group exhibitions
2019 « Waiting for Omar Gatlato » – Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University – New York, USA
2018 « Un Œil ouvert sur le Monde Arabe » - Institut du Monde Arabe – Paris, France
2018 Dak’Art OFF Biennale de Dakar – Dakar, Senegal
2016 Dak’Art OFF Biennale de Dakar – Dakar, Senegal
2015 « Territoires Arabes » – Constantine, Capital of Arab Culture – Constantine, Algeria
2014 « Ne pas se séparer du Monde » - Orient’art Express Festival – Oujda, Morocco
2014 Dak’Art OFF Biennale de Dakar – Dakar, Senegal
2012 Mediterranean Contemporary Art Biennial – Oran, Algeria
2008-11 Group shows in more than 35 venues in Algeria
Special Participations
2020-21 « Que faut-il dire aux Hommes ? » - with La Compagnie des Hommes (Didier Ruiz) – Several Venues in France
2016 Quinzaine des Réalisateurs du Festival de Cannes – with the film « KINDIL », based on an original idea by Adel Bentounsi – Cannes, France
2015 Residency at FADA – Amman, Jordan
2013 Residency at École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts ESA – Dunkerque, France
2013 Best Contemporary Painting – National Award - Société Générale – Algeria
2012 Residency at Fructose – Dunkerque, France