Gonzalo Bénard is an artist, curator and published writer, who have been producing a body of work about matters of life and death. About spirituality, sociology, anthropology, philosophy and psychology. About rituals and rites from the several cultures: old and new. Celebrations of life with matters of death. About mind’s inner world(s).
Gonzalo Bénard has been always working and expressing himself on several media, from painting to drawing - in a not distant past -, to photography and writing both with a special meaning to him since very young age. Photography has been his main way of expressing his existence, what surrounds him, or what he feels about society. With deep roots in shamanism and old religions, he breaks the main rules of the modern society, reminding it about the origins of life. Gonzalo Bénard writes and photographs as a need of expression. Bringing and blending his studies in the Western Europe, with Himalayas or Africa where he lived and learned with spiritual, philosophic and shamanic masters. ... http://www.gbenard.com/about