Sunday, September 7, 2008

Manfredi Beninati

In 2005 he was selected as one of four artists to represented his country at the 51 Venice Biennale where he received the audience award for the Italian pavilion. In 2006 he was given a fellowship at the American Academy in Rome as part of the Rome Prize. He currently lives and works in Palermo, Rome and Los Angeles and is represented by James Cohan Gallery in New York and Galleria Lorcan O'Neill in Rome.

Beninati's works are elaborate, and include drawings, oils and installations. His works elicit a fantasy world with literary and artistic references. The work is based around memories of childhood and adolescence. The images are dreamy, sometimes verging on nightmarish, with some details rendered with great precision while others are out of focus and smudged out.

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