Volare
Andrea Benetti
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Date:2020; Bologna, Italy -
Series:Museums and Collections -
Theme:Pop fantasy -
Media:chalk, oil -
Dimensions:50 x 50 cm
Volare
Andrea Benetti
VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY COLLECTION ∙ Richmond, U.S.A.
The works are a bas-relief made with plaster on canvas, then pigmented with oxides. After a very thin layer of resin, the painting is finished with oil paints.
This collection of works belongs to the never dormant child who enjoys imagining what a hypothetical prehistoric man would draw today on the rocky wall of a cave. Certainly not horses or bison, as he once painted, because in the cities where we live there are no more and it is usually very rare to see them. Andrea Benetti portrays what today are some of the symbols of our civilization, which accompany us in everyday life and often in the dreams we would like to realize. The iconography that pervades our daily life and also our imagination. The works depict trains, cars, airplanes, scooters, sailboats, golfers, dreamlike flowers.
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