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Johannes Vogt Gallery is pleased to present “Behind The Scenes,” the first solo exhibition by
Brussels-based artist Benoit Platéus at the gallery. The exhibition features new paintings from
Platéus’s Behind the Scenes series, atmospheric canvases fashioned from old movie posters. In
the works exhibited, Platéus uses painting not to represent but to blur an image—to emphasize
as much as to obscure.
To create the Behind the Scenes paintings, Platéus reverse-mounts movie posters—often
posters for old B-movies or forgotten films, which he sources online and in dedicated shops—on
canvas and then paints …