2nd Prize – Contemporary Creation Call 2010

Creation – Benjamin Hochart, French artist born in 1982, living and working in France (Aubervilliers). Weaving – Pinton Manufacture, Felletin Dimensions: Triptych, 3 works measuring 1.55 m x 2.20 m

Benjamin Hochart uses a working method called "dodecaphonic," echoing the atonal music of Schönberg, to define structures that act as musical scores. Before starting to draw, he uses a specific order of tools—pencils, markers, inks, etc. He begins in the center of the page with the first tool, which he only picks up again after having used all the others, one after the other. The models for Blink#0 were created using this process.

Benjamin Hochart invites one to move through his works as if navigating a musical space, a labyrinth, a landscape, or a mental map. The tapestries of this triptych are modular, viewed both on the floor and on the wall, and can be positioned in all four directions. The artist extends "the spatial and transversal dimension of his drawing work, producing a series of variable, moving, and woven images, which the eye cannot fully perceive in a single glance," thus the tapestries offer different spaces with as many new interpretations.