Benoit Pailley: Cochonou

Benoit Pailley: Cochonou: Project by Young et Rubicam Paris agency. Benoit Pailley, Photographer #jamaissansmoncochonou Amoureux des bonnes choses ...

Cochonou

Project by Young et Rubicam Paris agency.

Benoit Pailley, Photographer

#jamaissansmoncochonou

Amoureux des bonnes choses et en particulier de son saucisson, le français est vraiment prêt à tout pour emmener son Cochonou partout. Y&R Paris nous en donne la preuve avec son opération #jamaissansmoncohonou : une campagne Print et un évènement au Musée de la Douane d’Hestrud (59) qui met en évidence l’ingéniosité des français pour emmener avec eux leur saucisson au-delà des frontières.    

En effet, malgré les règlementations internationales en vigueur, le français ne voyage jamais sans son saucisson et tous les ans,  des tonnes de charcuteries sont saisies par les douaniers du monde entier. Soigneusement cachées dans les baguages de nos compatriotes, ces derniers redoublent d’ingéniosité pour tromper la vigilance des douaniers ; c’est ce que l’on découvre dans cette série de 10 visuels complètement insolites : un saucisson caché dans un doudou, dans un tuba, dans une pochette de crayons, ... 

Et c’est au Musée de la Douane d’Hestrud que ces surprenantes saisies d’objets n’ayant pas échappé à la vigilance des douaniers, seront exposées le 2 avril avec la présence très attendue de la célèbre  2CV Cochonou du Tour de France !

 

 

Form and Function

Project made for Kid_In

Photographer: Benoit Pailley

Stylist: Alice Bertay

Platonic Solids

Project made for Kid_In

Installation & Photography: Benoit Pailley

Stylist: Alice Bertay

Concrete Project N˚1

Magazine THE ROOM, Winter 2010, Issue 12

Pages 10

Benoit Pailley, Photographer

Ines Fendri, Stylist

A basic if now not classic building material, concrete has a varied and complex history in the world of architecture and art. When you think of Marcel Breuer and Le Corbusier, or the Eastern Bloc or Sol Le Witt and Donald Judd, you think concrete.

Taking my cues from the minimalists, I poured my own mixture of concrete into moulds and the results are sculptural objects that create absurd settings for brightly-colored accessories of the fall season. In the south of France, I set myself up in an old barn — after two days of cleaning it was transformed into a makeshift studio.  I worked a week on the wooden moulds and making the bespoke concrete blocks (I went through 450 kilograms of concrete).  And finally I spent several days shooting in the summer’s morning light.

 

                             

Escape Artist

Magazine DOUBLE, Fall 2008, Issue 16

Pages 10

Benoit Pailley, Photographer

Andrea Bianconi, Artist

Alice Bertay, Stylist

Patricia Regan, Hair/Make up

Marilou Daube, Assistant stylist

Benoit Pailley presents this collaboration with Italian artist Andrea Bianconi and stylist Alice Bertay.

With this assignment for Double, Pailley brought to life Bianconi's art practice of sculpture, collage and painting. Bianconiinventscostume accessories in the manner ofhis work that reveal his preoccupations(paranoia, fantasi and escapism) while Bertay stryles hiscast of characters. 

Like his sculptures, Bianconi, now the subject, is posed in a gallery environment of gray floor and white wal, while Pailley assumes the role of artist and manipulates his form/model into contortions that are surreal, humorous and bizarre.

Unmonumental

Magazine DOUBLE, spring 2009 , Issue 17

Pages 14

Benoit Pailley, Photograher & Set design

Ines Fendri, Stylist

Tasked with the editorial assignement from Double Magazine to develop a jewelry feature titled "Unmonumental"for March 2009, Benoit Pailley was campbell to engage with the economic and political turmoil in this moment.

Combining jewelry with found objects painted black, Pailley creates minimalist dioramas and places them in a gallery setting.These meticulous installations frame a story of the tension in the war and religious, and the fragility of freedom and human nature.

These striking imagesworks on two levels; they symbolize a tumultuous moment in history with dark humor and on a graphic level, these installation showcase unique designs of contemporary jewelry from the most prestigious houses.