Adel Bentounsi
b. Alegria. living and working in Paris, France
Adel Bentounsi is a contemporary visual artist whose work involves a multitude of media such as photography, video, installations, performance art, graphic art, drawing and painting. He justifies the broadness of his media by stating that “each artwork needs a specific medium, much in the same way that a child needs its mother”.
Adel was born in 1982 in Algeria. He attended the School of Fine Arts in Annaba, where he obtained his Artistic Diploma in 2007. He also attended the Dunkerque Institute of Higher Education in 2013.
His approach consists of answering existential questions, as well as examining the values of morality as part of an exploration of social norms and behaviours. Adel believes that artistic acts are driven by a fear arising from our instability, one that pushes us beyond our limits and allows us to turn that fear into wonderful creations.
Adel is represented by Marsoum Art Collective and Dar Al-Anda in Jordan.
Bentounsi's most recents exhibitions include:
2019: Waiting for Omar Gatlato: Contemporary Art from Algeria and Its Diaspora, at Columbia University’s Wallach Art Gallery
2018 BIND, Biennale de Dessin, Dakar, Senegal (Solo)
2018 RASM, Expo Dessin musée d'art moderne, Algiers, Algeria (Group)
2017 Les Ateliers Sauvages/Wassyla Tamzaly at Galerie MEKIC Montréal, QC, Canada (Solo)
2017 Beirut Biennale of Contemporary Art, Beirut, Lebanon (Solo)
2016 Les Ateliers Sauvages/Wassyla Tamzaly at Beirut Art Fair, Beirut, Lebanon (Solo)
Adel Bentounsi is a contemporary visual artist whose work involves a multitude of media such as photography, video, installations, performance art, graphic art, drawing and painting. He justifies the broadness of his media by stating that “each artwork needs a specific medium, much in the same way that a child needs its mother”.
Adel was born in 1982 in Algeria. He attended the School of Fine Arts in Annaba, where he obtained his Artistic Diploma in 2007. He also attended the Dunkerque Institute of Higher Education in 2013.
His approach consists of answering existential questions, as well as examining the values of morality as part of an exploration of social norms and behaviours. Adel believes that artistic acts are driven by a fear arising from our instability, one that pushes us beyond our limits and allows us to turn that fear into wonderful creations.
Adel is represented by Marsoum Art Collective and Dar Al-Anda in Jordan.
Bentounsi's most recents exhibitions include:
2019: Waiting for Omar Gatlato: Contemporary Art from Algeria and Its Diaspora, at Columbia University’s Wallach Art Gallery
2018 BIND, Biennale de Dessin, Dakar, Senegal (Solo)
2018 RASM, Expo Dessin musée d'art moderne, Algiers, Algeria (Group)
2017 Les Ateliers Sauvages/Wassyla Tamzaly at Galerie MEKIC Montréal, QC, Canada (Solo)
2017 Beirut Biennale of Contemporary Art, Beirut, Lebanon (Solo)
2016 Les Ateliers Sauvages/Wassyla Tamzaly at Beirut Art Fair, Beirut, Lebanon (Solo)
Untitled (In Between Series) ix/ix | 2018 | Mixed media on paper | This is a unique work | 9.1 x 5.9 in. | 23 x 15 cm
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Untitled (In Between Series) iii/ix | 2018 Mixed media on paper | This is a unique work | 11.0 x 8.1 in. | 28 x 20.5 cm
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Untitled (In Between Series) iv/ix | 2018 | Mixed media on paper | This is a unique work | 9.1 x 5.9 in. | 23 x 15 cm
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