Jacques Benoit

Born in Algiers in the French Algeria, Jacques Benoit left for France at the age of seven, after the Algerian independence war. He attended high school at Orléans and Nice, eventually settling in Paris, where he studied Graphic Arts at the Met de Penninghen Art SchoolESAG Met de Penninghen Paris Art School [http://www.penninghen.com/ View on line] in the early 1970s.

As a young professional, Benoit worked in advertising agencies before taking the position of Creative DirectorEuro Disney. French newspaper Les Echos, n° 16283, December 9th 1992, p 54. [http://www.lesechos.fr/09/12/1992/LesEchos/16283-091-ECH_euro-disney-alfredo-gangotena.htm View on line] at Euro Disney, between 1991 and 1995; followed by another two-year stint as Director of Creative at the Futuroscope Park, between 2000 and 2002.

The new century marked a turning point in Benoit's life, as the painter abandoned his career in advertising to commit himself full-time to the painting activities he had started in the mid-1990s.

Since the late 1990s, Benoit's work has been mostly inspired by Modern Architecture, including its Brazilian branch (inaugurated by the architect Lúcio Costa, and developed by his apprentice Oscar Niemeyer).

Pop Music is another strong influence on Benoit's paintings, which encompass figurative, narrative and symbolic trends. As primary influence, the painter quotes the music of Joni Mitchell. But also the music of Elton John, Rickie Lee Jones, Kate Bush, or Patti Smith,(« Horsesvision » : hommage vibrant à l’album Horses de Patti Smith|Published November 9th, 2015 at 6:42 [http://www.ouifm.fr/horsesvision-hommage-vibrant-a-lalbum-horses-de-patti-smith/] View on line] followed by the jazz music of Miles Davis, Shirley Horn and the Jazz Fusion composer Pat Metheny.

Occasionally Benoit's paintings can also make reference to Stanley Kubrick’s and Alfred Hitchcock’s films.

In 1973 Elton John commissioned Jacques Benoit a series of artworks to be used in the promotional material for John's 1974 US & World Tour (tour book,Archives (copyright Jacques Benoit) [http://jacquesbenoit.com/Images%20refonte%20mars%202014/Conform%C3%A9%20WEB/Tour-Book-Elton-John-1974-copyright-Jacques-Benoit-archives.jpg View on line] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181117022429/http://jacquesbenoit.com/Images%20refonte%20mars%202014/Conform%C3%A9%20WEB/Tour-Book-Elton-John-1974-copyright-Jacques-Benoit-archives.jpg |date=2018-11-17 }} T-shirtsArchives (copyright Jacques Benoit) [http://jacquesbenoit.com/Images%20refonte%20mars%202014/Conform%C3%A9%20WEB/Elton-John-Tour-1974-copyright-Jacques-Benoit-archives.jpg View on line] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140502032734/http://jacquesbenoit.com/Images%20refonte%20mars%202014/Conform%C3%A9%20WEB/Elton-John-Tour-1974-copyright-Jacques-Benoit-archives.jpg |date=2014-05-02 }} and postersArchives (copyright Jacques Benoit) [http://jacquesbenoit.com/Images%20refonte%20mars%202014/Conform%C3%A9%20WEB/Poster-elton-John-Tour-1974-copyright-Jacques-Benoit-archives.jpg View on line] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304023105/http://jacquesbenoit.com/Images%20refonte%20mars%202014/Conform%C3%A9%20WEB/Poster-elton-John-Tour-1974-copyright-Jacques-Benoit-archives.jpg |date=2016-03-04 }}).

Thirty years later, Benoit contributed to the Elton John AIDS Foundation by offering the singer a paintingPainting The Ballad of the Boy in the Red Shoes (Jacques Benoit's Archives) [http://jacquesbenoit.com/divers_page_peintures%20-%20UK.html View on line] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230514160339/http://jacquesbenoit.com/divers_page_peintures%20-%20UK.html |date=2023-05-14 }} especially made for him, inspired by his composition Ballad of the Boy in the Red Shoes from his 2001 album Songs from the West Coast.

PassionateInfluence of Joni Mitchell's poems and music (Jacques Benoit's archives) [http://jacquesbenoit.com/Joni_page_texte_UK.html View on line] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230516023548/http://jacquesbenoit.com/Joni_page_texte_UK.html |date=2023-05-16 }}Assumpção, Maurício. The Man who painted Niemeyer. Valor Econômico Newspaper, Brazil, April 27th, 2012 [http://jacquesbenoit.com/Images/presse/Valor-Economico-Page-UK-pour-web.jpg View on line] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304191522/http://jacquesbenoit.com/Images/presse/Valor-Economico-Page-UK-pour-web.jpg |date=2016-03-04 }} about the music of the Canadian composer and singer Joni Mitchell, Benoit produced, between 1977 and 1989, a series of works inspired by a selection of fifty poems drawn from her albums from Song to a Seagull (1968) through Chalk Mark in a Rainstorm (1988).

In the 1980s, Benoit and Mitchell met twiceJoni Mitchell's Official Site http://jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=2799&from=search to discuss his works. On April 30, 1983, the painter presented a first selectionFirst selection of paintings (Jacques Benoit's Archives) [http://jacquesbenoit.com/Joni_page_texte_UK.html View on line] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230516023548/http://jacquesbenoit.com/Joni_page_texte_UK.html |date=2023-05-16 }} of his works to Mitchell during her series of concertsJoni Mitchell's 1983 Wild Things World Tour (Joni Mitchell's Archives) [http://jonimitchell.com/chronology/tour.cfm?id=7 View on line] in Paris at Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and Casino de Paris (Joni Mitchell World Tour, Wild Things Tour/1983).

Encouraged by this meeting, Benoit pursued his work, planning to publish a book with Mitchell's lyrics alongside his paintings. In 1987 the painter sent the book's mockupBook mock up (Jacques Benoit's archives) [http://jacquesbenoit.com/Joni_page_texte_UK.html View on line] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230516023548/http://jacquesbenoit.com/Joni_page_texte_UK.html |date=2023-05-16 }} to Box in Wiltshire, England, where Mitchell was then recording her new album Chalk Mark in a Rainstorm at Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios.

A second meeting took place in the Real World studio, where Benoit presented Mitchell with a series of new paintings. Altogether, Benoit's production comprises sixtyWorks inspired by Joni Mitchell's œuvre [http://jacquesbenoit.com/Joni_page_peintures%20-%20UK.html View on line] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140307081811/http://jacquesbenoit.com/Joni_page_peintures%20-%20UK.html |date=2014-03-07 }} gouaches, engravings (as monotype linocut prints), oil and large-format paintings on paper based on Mitchell’s texts.

According to Benoit, it was this Joni Mitchell phase that led him to embrace his career as a professional painter.

In 2002 Benoit saw on the French TV channel France 3 the 9/11 documentary film about the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center in New York. The film was directed by the then fireman James Hanlon and the French-American filmmakers Jules and Gédéon Naudet.

In the film, James Hanlon suggested an identical reconstruction of the destroyed towers, while the Mayor of New York City Rudy Giuliani advocated the construction of a 9/11 memorial alongside a brand new development.

Those opposing views inspired Benoit's own visionWorld Trade Center paintings (Jacques Benoit's archives) [http://jacquesbenoit.com/world_Trade_Center_page_texte_UK.html View on line] of the reconstructed towers, exactly as they were, with a memorial inserted into its original design.

In agreement with Gédéon Naudet, Benoit donated a triptych of his proposalWorld Trade Center Tryptych (Jacques Benoit's archives) [http://jacquesbenoit.com/World_trade_center.html View on line] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230603143813/http://jacquesbenoit.com/World_trade_center.html |date=2023-06-03 }} to James Hanlon at the New York City Fire Department in Manhattan.

In 1997, Benoit exhibited in Paris his first series of paintings inspired by the city of Brasilia (a place the painter visited for the first time in 1994). The paintings were followed by a new series of works, under the title Brasilia. Flesh and Soul, exhibited in art galleries and at the Maison du Brésil in Paris in 2005,Maison du Brésil 2005 [http://www.maisondubresil.org/Culturel/vu_maison_2005.php View on line] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140418220553/http://www.maisondubresil.org/Culturel/vu_maison_2005.php |date=2014-04-18 }} 2007Maison du Brésil 2007 [http://www.maisondubresil.org/Culturel/vu_maison_2007.php View on line] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140418220340/http://www.maisondubresil.org/Culturel/vu_maison_2007.php |date=2014-04-18 }} and 2010.Maison du Brésil 2005 [http://www.maisondubresil.org/Culturel/vu_maison_2010.php View on line] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140418220456/http://www.maisondubresil.org/Culturel/vu_maison_2010.php |date=2014-04-18 }} "Brasilia. Flesh and Soul" was also presented during the summer of 2014, in the French city of Châlons-en-Champagne,French newspaper "L'Union-L'Ardennais" - Jacques Benoit's exhibition [http://www.lunion.com/region/l-esprit-d-un-visionnaire-dans-ses-toiles-ia3b24n366074] View on lineTranslation of "L'Union-L'Ardennais" article - Jacques Benoit's archives [http://jacquesbenoit.com/Images/presse/Chalons%20Juin2014%20L%27Union%20Print%20UK.pdf View on line] and inaugurated by former State Secretary and current Deputy and Mayor of Châlons, Benoist Apparu.

In 2003, the Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer received Jacques Benoit's proposal for a documentary film about the creation of Brasilia entitled Brasilia. Travel towards Dawn. The architect agreed to meet the artist in 2004Assumpção, Maurício. The Man who painted Niemeyer. Valor Econômico Newspaper, Brazil, 27 April 2012.[http://jacquesbenoit.com/Images/presse/Valor-Economico-Page-UK-pour-web.jpg View on line] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304191522/http://jacquesbenoit.com/Images/presse/Valor-Economico-Page-UK-pour-web.jpg |date=2016-03-04 }}Meeting Oscar Niemeyer [http://jacquesbenoit.com/Brasilia_page_texte_UK.html View on line] in Rio de Janeiro for a filmed interview, produced and directed by Benoit.

After the interview, Benoit offered the architect a paintingPainting "Brasilia Airport" - Jacques Benoit's archives [http://jacquesbenoit.com/Images/aeroporto%20brasilia%20for%20Page%20Text.pdf View on line] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413123638/http://jacquesbenoit.com/Images/aeroporto%20brasilia%20for%20Page%20Text.pdf |date=2014-04-13 }} representing his 1960's project for the Brasília International Airport. Niemeyer's modern airport had never been built"Architect". The Magazine of the American Institute of Architects [http://www.architectmagazine.com/architects/man-of-the-people.aspx View on line] due to divergences with the military dictatorship that ruled Brazil between 1964 and 1985. As a gesture of courtesy, Oscar Niemeyer offered the painter his sketches made during the interview.

Back in France, the painter made a 13-minute trailerPrologue of Brasilia. Travel towards Dawn [http://jacquesbenoit.com/Brasilia_page_texte_UK.html View on line] out of the three-hour-long rushes he produced in Brazil. In the following years, Benoit met several French production companies who showed interest for the film. The project, however, never reached production stage due to lack of funding.

In 2005, the director of the Espace Niemeyer cultural center at the French Communist Party headquarters, Gérard Fournier,Gérard Fournier. Director of Espace Niemeyer in Paris. French radio station France Bleu [http://www.francebleu.fr/infos/le-coup-de-fil-d-actualite/invitedujour-10 View on line] visited the Brasilia. Flesh and Soul exhibition at Maison du Brésil. He decided to host Benoit's next exhibition, Three Traces Oscar, in the party's headquarters, designed by Niemeyer himself.

This project involved the creation of a new series of paintings inspired by the three buildings projected by Oscar Niemeyer in the Paris metropolitan area: the headquarters of the French Communist Party in the Place du Colonel Fabien, the headquarters of the Bourse du Travail in Bobigny and the headquarters of the daily L'Humanité in Saint-Denis.

The Three Traces of OscarNewspaper Espaces Latinos, n° 239, January–February 2007 [http://jacquesbenoit.com/Images/TROIS%20TRACES%20D%27OSCAR_BIRCK_Layout%20UK.pdf View on line] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230318230224/http://www.jacquesbenoit.com/Images/TROIS%20TRACES%20D%27OSCAR_BIRCK_Layout%20UK.pdf |date=2023-03-18 }}Three Traces of Oscar [http://jacquesbenoit.com/Trois_traces_d_Oscar_page%20texte_UK.html View on line] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230513050657/http://jacquesbenoit.com/Trois_traces_d_Oscar_page%20texte_UK.html |date=2023-05-13 }} exhibition opened at the Espace NiemeyerDe l'Art à l'Œuvre [http://www.art-et-voyage.com/blog/index.php?2007/01/28/410-trois-traces-doscar View on line] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140306172845/http://www.art-et-voyage.com/blog/index.php?2007%2F01%2F28%2F410-trois-traces-doscar |date=2014-03-06 }} in November 2006, closing in March 2007.Radio France International [http://www1.rfi.fr/actubr/articles/083/article_787.asp View on line]BrasilBrésil [http://www.brasilbresil.com/exposition-de-peintures-de-jacques-benoit/ View on line] It consisted of 28 large format canvases and a series of monotype linocut prints.Paintings of Three Traces of Oscar [http://jacquesbenoit.com/Trois_traces_d_Oscar_page_peintures%20-%20UK.html View on line] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230603140620/http://jacquesbenoit.com/Trois_traces_d_Oscar_page_peintures%20-%20UK.html |date=2023-06-03 }} Among these works, A Painter’s Dream, a four-piece polyptych that imagined an allegorical meeting between Oscar Niemeyer, Stanley Kubrick and Kate Bush, as well as the painting Clouds, another allegorical meeting, this time bringing Oscar Niemeyer and Joni Mitchell together.

In 2009, the mayor of the city of La Chatre in the French region of Indre, Nicolas Forissier, invited Jacques Benoit to exhibit at the Château d'Ars's art galleries for a two-month event that combined different themes exploited by his work - with an emphasis on the canvas that paid tribute to Oscar Niemeyer's architecture.

The exhibition,Château d'Ars exhibition. Newspaper La Nouvelle République (Jacques Benoit's archives) [http://jacquesbenoit.com/Images%20refonte%20mars%202014/Conform%C3%A9%20WEB/Nouvelle%20Republique%20Benoit.pdf View on line] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211203103821/http://jacquesbenoit.com/Images%20refonte%20mars%202014/Conform%C3%A9%20WEB/Nouvelle%20Republique%20Benoit.pdf |date=2021-12-03 }} including some samples of a series dedicated to Los Angeles and two canvases paying tribute to George Sand, was eventually called Oscar, Stanley, Joni, Rickie Lee, George, Kate et autres Corps et Âmes hantant les lieux du Monde (literally, Oscar, Stanley, Joni, Rickie Lee, George, Kate and others Bodies & Souls haunting the World’s Places).

In 2009 the commission for the 50th Anniversary of Brasilia selectedBrazilian Jubilee Official Commission's certificate of selection (Jacques Benoit's archives) [http://jacquesbenoit.com/Images%20refonte%20mars%202014/Conform%C3%A9%20WEB/Comissao%20Certificat%20Brasilia%2050%20anos.pdf View on line] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211203111403/http://jacquesbenoit.com/Images%20refonte%20mars%202014/Conform%C3%A9%20WEB/Comissao%20Certificat%20Brasilia%2050%20anos.pdf |date=2021-12-03 }} Benoit's works to be included in the official program to be held in the Brazilian capital in the following year. Benoit's exhibition, entitled Brasília. De Carne e Alma (Brasilia. Flesh and Soul)Brasilia. Flesh and Soul in AchaBrasilia [http://www.achabrasilia.com/jacques-bernoit/ View on line]Brasília. De Carne e Alma in Jornal de Brasília [http://www.jornaldebrasilia.com.br/noticias/cidades/306539/brasilia-de-corpo-e-alma-no-espaco-renato-russo/ View on line] and organized in the Rubem Valentim Gallery at the Renato Russo Cultural Center, contained 27 large format paintings on canvas and paper, as well as monotypes by different techniques.

Brasília (2011): At the request of Gérard Fournier, the 50th Anniversary of Brasilia exhibition was presented in Paris, at the Espace Niemeyer during two months in the spring of 2011.Journal Libération, 25 May 2011 [http://voyages.liberation.fr/voir-et-lire/brasilia-s-039-expose-paris View on line] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140306174656/http://voyages.liberation.fr/voir-et-lire/brasilia-s-039-expose-paris |date=2014-03-06 }}Ousecultiver.com, May 2011 [https://web.archive.org/web/20140306172722/http://www.ousecultiver.com/article.php?id=268 View on line]L'Express Magazine, 13 June 2011 [http://www.lexpress.fr/tendances/brasilia-se-devoile-a-paris_1208079.html View on line]

Brasilia. Half a Century of the Capital of Brazil is a traveling exhibition on the history of the city through a collection of documents, objects and photographs dating back to the 18th century. The show was held at Espace Niemeyer in Paris and presented a selection of Benoit's works.Exhibition Brasilia. Half a Century of the Capital of Brazil in Paris in Brazilian newspaper Correio Braziliense April 28th, 2013 [http://www.correiobraziliense.com.br/app/noticia/cidades/2013/04/28/interna_cidadesdf,362923/temporada-de-niemeyer-em-paris-influenciou-a-vida-e-o-trabalho-do-arquiteto.shtml View on line]Traduction of the Brazilian newspaper Correio Braziliense article. April 28th, 2013 [http://jacquesbenoit.com/Images/presse/CORREIO_01_UK.pdf View on line] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304023114/http://jacquesbenoit.com/Images/presse/CORREIO_01_UK.pdf |date=2016-03-04 }} It also included the 2013 polyptych(A Ausência) The Absence [http://jacquesbenoit.com/Brasilia_page_peintures%20-%20UK.html View on line] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140826175504/http://www.jacquesbenoit.com/Brasilia_page_peintures%20-%20UK.html |date=2014-08-26 }} (A Ausência) The Absence,Jacques Benoit's 2013 exhibition in French newspaper L'Express [http://www.lexpress.fr/tendances/brasilia-se-devoile-a-paris_1208079.html View on line]Traduction of French newspaper L'Express article about Jacques Benoit's 2013 exhibition (Jacques Benoit's archives) [http://jacquesbenoit.com/Images/presse/PRESSE_Hommage-a-ON-lexpress-culture-bronnec-2013-UK.pdf View on line] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304023129/http://jacquesbenoit.com/Images/presse/PRESSE_Hommage-a-ON-lexpress-culture-bronnec-2013-UK.pdf |date=2016-03-04 }} painted by Benoit. This symbolic work commemorates Oscar Niemeyer's death, occurred in December 2012. It portrays Niemeyer's loft on Copacabana beach, where he lived and worked, alongside Brasilia's cathedral, one of his most iconic projects. According to the painter, the polyptych was made under the influence of Melody Gardot’s music, from her 2012 album The Absence, as well as the composition Nenia by the Italian trumpeter Paolo Fresu.

Tapping different architectural and urban sources, Benoit created in 2007 a series of canvas inspired by Los Angeles, CA, offering a kaleidoscopic nocturne vision of the city.

This vision, entitled Sur la Trace des Versants OuestSur la Trace des Versants Ouest [http://jacquesbenoit.com/versants_ouest_page_texte_UK.html View on line] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230513051744/http://jacquesbenoit.com/versants_ouest_page_texte_UK.html |date=2023-05-13 }} was inspired by the composition Traces of the Western Slopes by the American musician and composer Rickie Lee Jones, co-written by Sal Bernardi (seventh track on Rickie Lee Jones' 1981 Pirates album). An over eight-minute-long epic, jazzy and symphonic composition, which explores the confluences of Jazz Fusion, Blues and Rock, Traces of the Western Slopes is generally considered one of Rickie Lee Jones's best works of all time.

Series of nine large format paintingsSur la Trace des Versants Ouest paintings [http://jacquesbenoit.com/Versants_Ouest%20-%20UK.html View on line] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230603155624/http://jacquesbenoit.com/Versants_Ouest%20-%20UK.html |date=2023-06-03 }} exhibited in Paris in November 2007.

In 2003, Benoit produced two canvases, Orly (South), inspired by the Orly Airport in Paris. Designed by the French architect {{Interlanguage link|Henri Vicariot|fr}}, the 1962 building was renamed South Wing after the addition of a West Wing, and the construction of a new airport (Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle) to the north of Paris.

Back to his Brazilian projects, the artist put aside the Orly airport series for several years. He was not back to the Orly phase until 2008, as he created a series of 11 new paintingsOrly (Sud) series of paintings [http://jacquesbenoit.com/Orly_page_peintures_UK.html View on line] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211203100652/http://jacquesbenoit.com/Orly_page_peintures_UK.html |date=2021-12-03 }}Newspaper L'Express-Le Vif (February 19th, 2012) [http://weekend.levif.be/tendance/lifestyle/expo/expo-decryptee-jacques-benoit-chez-dubois-friedland/album-4000044854687.htm View on line] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140306172700/http://weekend.levif.be/tendance/lifestyle/expo/expo-decryptee-jacques-benoit-chez-dubois-friedland/album-4000044854687.htm |date=2014-03-06 }}Newspaper L'Express-Le Vif-Focus (January 20th, 2012) [http://jacquesbenoit.com/Images%20refonte%20mars%202014/Conform%C3%A9%20WEB/ORLY-LEVIF-20janvier2012.jpg View on line] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304023047/http://jacquesbenoit.com/Images%20refonte%20mars%202014/Conform%C3%A9%20WEB/ORLY-LEVIF-20janvier2012.jpg |date=2016-03-04 }}Newspaper The Brussels Tribune [http://jacquesbenoit.com/Images%20refonte%20mars%202014/Conform%C3%A9%20WEB/ORLY-Brussels-tribune-low-def.jpg View on line] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304192140/http://jacquesbenoit.com/Images%20refonte%20mars%202014/Conform%C3%A9%20WEB/ORLY-Brussels-tribune-low-def.jpg |date=2016-03-04 }}Newspaper Art Actuel [http://www.artactuel.com/galerie-art/dubois-friedland-gallery-1547/evenement/jacques-benoit-orly-sud-2035.html View on line] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140306202909/http://www.artactuel.com/galerie-art/dubois-friedland-gallery-1547/evenement/jacques-benoit-orly-sud-2035.html |date=2014-03-06 }}Moustique news [http://www.moustique.be/mosquito/agenda-culturel/detail/0/25929/jacques-benoit-orly-sud View on line] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140306172810/http://www.moustique.be/mosquito/agenda-culturel/detail/0/25929/jacques-benoit-orly-sud |date=2014-03-06 }}Arts Hebdo Medias [http://www.artshebdomedias.com/agenda/101211-jacques-benoit-orly-sud View on line] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140306175842/http://www.artshebdomedias.com/agenda/101211-jacques-benoit-orly-sud |date=2014-03-06 }} under the influence of the jazz singer Shirley Horn, the soundtrack Miles Davis composed for Louis Malle’s film, Lift to the Scaffold, and the soundtracks of Claude Lelouch’s films Live for Life and A Man and a Woman, both composed by Francis Lai.

In 2012, the gallery Dubois FriedlandDubois Friedland gallery [http://www.artshebdomedias.com/annuaire/070311-duboisfriedland View on line] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140502002349/http://www.artshebdomedias.com/annuaire/070311-duboisfriedland |date=2014-05-02 }} in Brussels presented the Orly (South)Orly (Sud) exhibition [http://jacquesbenoit.com/Orly_page_textes_UK.html View on line] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230514160339/http://jacquesbenoit.com/Orly_page_textes_UK.html |date=2023-05-14 }} exhibition with the support of the French EmbassyOrly (Sud) and the French Embassy in Belgium [http://jacquesbenoit.com/Images/presse/Embassade-France-agenda-culturel_page-web.jpg View on line] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304023103/http://jacquesbenoit.com/Images/presse/Embassade-France-agenda-culturel_page-web.jpg |date=2016-03-04 }} in Belgium.

Since then Benoit has been working on a sequel to Orly (Sud), with a new series of paintings inspired by Vicariot's works.

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