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.