Pro Choice, 2010
gouache on canvas and foamcore, archival inkjet print, aluminium, glass, tape
108 x 155 cm

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Bonjour Tourist (Josefin & Catharina), 2012
gouache on canvas and foamcore, archival inkjet print, aluminium, glass, tape
108 x 155 cm

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Bonjour Tourist, 2012,
gouache on canvas and foamcore, archival inkjet print, aluminium, glass, tape
108 x 155 cm

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Newscaster, 2010
gouache on canvas and foamcore, archival inkjet print, aluminium, glass, tape
108 x 155 cm

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Untitled, 2012
gouache on canvas and foamcore, aluminium, glass, tape
59,5 x 84 cm

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Black Friday, 2012
gouache on canvas and foamcore, aluminium, glass, tape
108 x 155 cm

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WILL BENEDICT & JULIE VERHOEVEN
Bread & Butt, at Galerie Meyer Kainer ,Vienna

all images courtesy of the artist, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna and Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt am Main

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Ten things you need to know about WILL BENEDICT:

1. he is an american artist
2. who lives and works in Vienna
3. he studied at Art Center College of Design, Pasadena (1999–2004) before reaching Frankfurt am Main and the Städelschule in 2004
4. he made a name for himself in 2008 with a series of artworks titled Post Card which turned painting into a kind of stamp
5. more recently his works rely on various combinations of gouache paintings and cut-out studio portraits, mounted in customized aluminium and foamcore frames
6. these works includes large photographic portraits of people seated behind desks, or couples having dinner and small paintings in the corners that look like the small boxes of news program containing capsule descriptions of current events
7. his strange carefully crafted photo-hybrids explore the gaze of individual lives within their cultural contexts, often triggering absurdities and misinterpretations
8. since 2008 he runs the exhibition space Pro Choice with LUCIE STAHL
9. he is having solo exhibitions at Gió Marconi in Milan and at Galerie Meyer Kainer in Vienna with JULIE VERHOEVEN (both exhibitions on view until June 16, 2012)
10. he will also curate an exhibition Commercial Psycho at Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York in June 2012