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Manfredi Beninati: REARRANGING THE LANDSCAPES AROUND
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Published: January 07 2009

"mother"; (2008) copy right(c) Manfredi Beninati / Courtesy of Tomio Koyama Gallery

Beninati finally started to practice art after he has studied law in Palermo University and learned to film in Rome. He has a remarkable career, as he stayed in England and Buenos Aires for many years and came back home to Palermo. Beninati who has worked as an assistant under leading directors of the film industry such as Giuseppe Tornatore and Damiano Damiani, has an eye influenced by film making that realizes the internally emotional but strange world on canvas. The reminiscence of childhood looking through the lens of memory is reproduced in an image that could be taken for a dream or reality, and such view of the world reminds one of Italo Calvino or Lewis Carroll’s novels. In “To think of something”, shown in this year’s Liverpool Biennale, he has made an installation based on a view of an empty store front facing a street, as if it were a house of an imaginary family. Looking through the holes on the brick exterior wall, you see a living room with scattered toys as if a little child was playing there until just now, and further a dining room and a bedroom, and you feel the trace of warmth that a family has lived there. What Beniati’s images releases in the hearts of the viewer is the memory of emotional upheavals, and the quietude and disquietude that’s unique to childhood. In this exhibition, we will be showing works that the artist painted thinking about his parents that looks like a world in a dream. There will be 2 paintings, 2 drawings, and 2 sculptural works of a pure white porcelain put upon a pedestal. Also in the Gallery 2, he plans to install a room with Japanese furniture to be peaked in, his image of “Japanese typical bourgeois’s room”. Please come see the show on this occasion. Manfredi Beniati was born in Palermo Italy in 1970. In the 51st Venice Biennial 2005, he received Audience’s Prize in Italian Pavillion. And he received Rome Prize from Roman American Academy in 2006. In 2008 he participated in Liverpool Biennale and Caldinale di Roma. In 2007 he had solo exhibitions in Museo Laboratorio, Citta Sant’Angelo, and had shown in many other exhibitions around the globe. * The text was provided by Tomio Koyama Gallery.

Last Updated on January 10 2009
 

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