Elisabetta Benassi

It starts with the firing

 

In 1972, London’s Tate Modern acquired the piece Equivalent VIII by US artist Carl Andre (made of 120 bricks), a move which triggered a spate of controversy in the British press.

Elisabetta Benassi has explored these materials, now held in the Tate Archive. Bricks are for homes! is one of these materials, and her exhibition starts from this point. In the displayed project, the brick – often decontextualised – becomes the central element, the constitutive cell of some of the featured works. Subtraction and re-composition, inside and outside, wall and shelter: the seeming ambiguity of these opposites becomes the field of exploration in the artist’s work, where materials, objects and artifacts are the result of visual layerings and accumulations brought back to life and offering visitors the possibility of kaleidoscopic interpretations.

 

 

BIO

Elisabetta Benassi (Rome, 1966) lives and works in Rome.
Her work is inspired by history, whether recent or more distant. Bringing together different images and objects in relation to the events she explores, the artist overcomes chronological restrictions and arrives at a new retelling of them, juxtaposing different stories and constantly bringing the past into the present.

She had solo shows in Italy and abroad, most recently at: Magazzino, Rome (2016); MAXXI, Rome (2014); CRAC Alsace, Altkirch (2013); Fondazione Merz, Turin (2013). Among her many group shows: GNAM, Rome (2017); Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2017); FRAC, Marseille (2016); Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia (2015). She also participated twice in the Venice Biennale (Belgian Pavilion 2015 and Italian Pavilion 2013).

VENUE

 

Collezione Maramotti
Via Fratelli Cervi 66
42124 Reggio Emilia
ph. +39 0522 382484
www.collezionemaramotti.org

 

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OPENING HOURS

May 7 – September 17

Thursday and Friday 2.30pm – 6.30pm

Saturday and Sunday 10.30am – 6.30pm

Closed August 1 to 25

 

FREE ADMISSION

 

+39 0522 382484
info@collezionemaramotti.org