Acrylic On Canvas-covered Book By Ben

Ben Acrylic on canvas-bound book Signed and dated “Ben 91” This piece plays on one of the emblematic gestures associated with Ben: the transmutation of handwriting into a total artistic act. The work takes the form of a canvas-bound book, elevated to the status of a pictorial object, whose cover serves as a support for a sentence written in white, nervous, spontaneous, as if thrown out in a single movement: “in this book there are my sorrows and my worries.” The inscription, both intimate and performative, opens a space where personal confession becomes aesthetic material. The contrast between the whiteness of the text and the dark background intensifies the graphic presence of the gesture, reinforcing this tension between confidence and staging, between captured words and exhibited emotion. The book, revisited as a unique object, refers to the conceptual approach often associated with Ben: art as writing the world, writing as an immediate grasp of reality, the everyday object as a field of experimentation. The black frame, discreet yet substantial, amplifies the iconic effect and lends the work an almost meditative dimension. This acrylic on canvas-bound book evokes an art where the human element surfaces through the phrase, where pain becomes a sign, where the everyday is sublimated in a gesture of disarming simplicity. It embodies this unique way of circulating, in a single movement, line, thought, and emotion. Dimensions of the visible book: width 22.5 cm, height 30.5 cm