EXPO ‘La Disparition par Benjamin Lignel’ – Klimt02 Gallery, Barcelona (Spain) – 30 Juin-21 Juill. 2011
Klimt02 Gallery presents in Barcelona La Disparition, a project by Benjamin Lignel that involves three series of badges, images of clouds on gold backgrounds, an oversized leather case and an explanatory publication with almost no text.
Bon, visiblement cela n’est pas si facile que ça de disparaître ! J’avais vu un début de disparition en septembre dernier à JOYA Barcelona, et voilà que Benjamin Lignel est toujours en train de disparaitre ….. 
(en tout cas, mes photos disparaissent bien !!)
La Disparition involves three series of badges, images of clouds on gold backgrounds, an oversized leather case and an explanatory publication with almost no text.
The title of the installation, the disappearance, reflects both what each series shows – the frame by frame dissolution of a cloud – and the series’ gradual collapse, as badges get sold, given or lost. The project aims to challenge the nature of badges as carrier of bite-size ideologies: individual badges from La Disparition will not make any sense unless given a context (the series) and a narrative (the disappearance of a cloud).
Klimt02
C/ Riera de Sant Miquel, 65
08006 Barcelona, Spain
http://www.klimt02.net/gallery
BOOK :
La disparition, with Enrico Bartolucci
Paris: Benjamin Lignel, 2010
A flip-book was produced to show Season 1 as an animation, but it won’t necessarily help visitors get over their frustration with this seemingly pointless project: it, too, will gradually loose its pages as time goes by.
This publication is the outcome of a collaboration between photographer Enrico Bartolucci, and designer Benjamin Lignel. It received the generous support of Les Compagnons du Sagittaire (printers in Rennes, F).
Edition of 600 copies
