About – RAFFAELLA BENETTI

Biography

Raffaella Benetti was born in Rovigo in 1961. The artist’s interests start from philosophy which, however, do not remain an end in themselves, but end up finding a field of application such as that of artistic representation.

Raffaella Benetti studied at the European Center of Venice for the Crafts of Conservation of Architectural Heritage, also in Venice at the Slovenian Public Exhibition Center Curatorial Practices and Contemporary Arts and in Rome, Architecture and Arts for the Liturgy at the Pontificio Ateneo Sant’Anselmo where she began a path of research on Byzantine icon and art. The artist’s work develops on different media such as sculpture, photography, installation and crosses border disciplines such as design. A path aimed at defining a coherent poetic over time even if characterized by a ductile and constantly changing writing. In his research a dominant theme is that of Time, its unstoppable flow, its crossing of Things, the idea of Passage, of Fragility, of the Ephemeral of our existence, as in the theme of Vanitas repeatedly addressed looking for a contemporary declination . Living in the center of nature is a necessity for the artist. The natural elements, portrayed in the photographs or the starting point for the installation interventions, become the linguistic code and the tool with which she investigates the relationship between nature and contemporary man. She pays special attention to the symbol, an element that enters his plastic language to represent the synthesis of that mixture of feelings, attitudes, actions that weave together the dynamic and meditative dimension of thought as the main human activity.

Exhibitions

2022

MNEMOSYNE, Past, Present, Future in the Olivetan Cloister, Story of a Restoration, Great Rivers Museum, Rovigo | edited by Raffaella Benetti | critical texts Raffaele Peretto, Roberto Tovo, Monica Pavan, Chiara Vallini | personal

THE GOLD OF MY GARDEN | edited by Giovanna Rizzetto | critical text Micol Andreasi | Arkè Gallery, Venice | personal

THOUGHTS | edited by Sonja Crevits | Gardeco Gallery, Oostkamp, Belgium | personal

SCULPTED | edited by Paola Riccardi, critical text by Gigliola Foschi, Matilde Callari Galli | Archiginnasio Bologna

A MOSAIC FOR TORNARECCIO | edited by Marco Bussagli | critical text by Marco Bussagli | Multifunctional Hall Remo Gaspari | Tornareccio, Chieti

THE JOURNEY: CONTEMPLATIONS AND LOSSES THROUGH THE LOOK OF 30 PHOTOGRAPHERS ADF | Reopening Photofestival, Ferrara

2021

APPLAUSE | edited by Sonja Crevits| Gardeco Gallery, Oostkamp, Belgium | personal

SCULPTED | edited by Paola Riccardi | critical text Gigliola Foschi | Royal Palace, Milan

WALLZINE| On all the walls of the world. 1st chapter The Journey, Street Art, Via Corelli, Milan | Villa Paolina, Viareggio

GARDECO NEW DESIGN | edited by Sonja Crevits | M&O, Paris | Salone del Mobile, Milan

SCULPTED | edited by Paola Riccardi | Palazzo Facchi, Brescia

2020

OOF|Olio dei Popoli: Art knocks out curated by Monica Scardecchia | Palazzo delle Stelline, Milan

2019

RONDÓ, | edited by Andrea Tinterri | critical text Andrea Tinterri | Arkè Gallery, Venice | personal

DAFNE PROJECT | Gardeco New Design Gallery | Salone del Mobile, Milan | M&O Paris | London Design Festival, Syon Park, London

2018

2017

NIGHT ENCOUNTERS, THE NIGHT COMES TO THE END, THE DAY IS BORN ON THE CHERRY TREES (homage to Bashō) | edited by Sergio Garbato | critical text by Sergio Garbato | Antico Coghetto, Rovigo | personal

VANITAS PROJECT | edited by Cristina Weitensfelder |critical text by Cristina Weitensfelder | Bag Gallery | Wopart, Work on Paper Art Fair Lugano

VANITAS PROJECT | edited by Cristina Weitensfelder | Bag Gallery | MIA Photo Fair, Milan

DANSEUSES PROJECT | Gardeco New Design Gallery | London Design Festival, Syon Park, London | M&O, Paris

2016

VANITAS, Elisa Montessori, Raffaella Benetti | edited by Andrea Tinterri | critical text by Andrea Tinterri | Bag Gallery, Parma | personal

VANITAS | edited by Andrea Tinterri | Wopart, Work on Paper

Art Fair, Lugano

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HOVER PROJECT | edited by Sonja Crevits, Gardeco New Design | Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre, Singapore | M&O Americas in Miami Beach

2014

AT WHAT POINT IS THE NIGHT? Edited by Roberto Tagliaferri | critical text Roberto Tagliaferri | Bishop’s Palace Cenate, Nardò, Lecce

TRACKS | edited by Tiziana Leopizzi | Costumer Museum, Merida, Spain

THE RED SIGNE | Elle A Art Line Gallery, Bari

THE PROJECT THINKER | Gardeco New Design, Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Center, Singapore | Frankfurt Messe, Germany

The CIRCLE | edited by Tiziana Leopizzi | Cloister of Santa Maria Novella, Florence

2013

I LOVE YOU | edited by Giovanni Morgese | critical text Giovanni Morgese | Civic Gallery of Contemporary Art Torrione Angioino, Bitonto

THE CIRCLE | edited by Tiziana Leopizzi | Italian Embassy, Montecarlo

THE BIG WAVE. TRIBUTE TO HOKUSAI | edited by Adelinda Allegretti | MU.MA Galata Museum of the Sea.

NY NOW | Gardeco New Design Gallery | JKJ Convention Center, New York – USA

2012

A RED CARPET FOR ITALIAN INTERIORS | edited by Tiziana Leopizzi | Twenty-four | London

SIXTH TRIENNALE OF CONTEMPORARY SACRED ART, PAUL VI PRIZE | edited by Toti Carpentieri | critical texts Toti carpenters, Micol Forti, Giovanni Gazzaneo | Archbishop’s Seminary, Lecce

2011

PROJECT THINKER | Gardeco New Design Gallery, Messe Frankfurt, Germany

IMPERFECT PERCEPTIVE | edited by Aurora Fonda | Gallery A plus A – Slovenian Exhibition Center – Venice

2010

2009

TRIBUTE TO POPE JOHN PAUL II | Basilica of Santa Maria in Aracoeli – Rome

2007

2006

RAFFAELLA BENETTI, SCULPTURES | edited by Sergio Polite | critical text Sergio Polite | Este Castle, Mesola, Ferrara | personal

2005

RAFFAELLA BENETTI, SCULPTURES | edited by Sergio Polite | critical text Sergio Polite | Villa Badoer, Fratta Polesine, Rovigo | personalve dimension of thought as the main activity of man

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