Manfredi Beninati
Beninati in Chelsea, NYC in 2008
Born (1970-01-11) January 11, 1970
Palermo, Italy
NationalityItalian
Known forDrawing, Painting, Installation, Sculpture, Film
MovementInstallation art, post-modernism
Websitewww.manfredibeninati.com

Manfredi Beninati is an Italian artist born in Palermo (Sicily) in 1970. A contemporary figurative painter, his oeuvre also covers installations, drawings, sculpture, collage and film.

Biography

After dropping out of both law and film school and collaborating with well-known Italian directors, Manfredi Beninati began working as an artist. He spent some time in Spain and England and, in 2002, when he came back to Italy, he began to make sculptures and figurative paintings that drew directly on real or imaginary childhood memories. Beninati first started studying law and then switched to film courses in the early 1990s while working as an assistant director in the Italian film industry.

In 1994 he moved to London where he started working as a visual artist. In 2005 he was selected as one of four artists to represent his country at the 51 Venice Biennale[1] 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.[2] He currently lives and works in Palermo, Rome and Los Angeles where, together with his wife Milena Muzquiz (of Los Super Elegantes) he has founded an experimental theatre group. He is represented by James Cohan Gallery in New York, Tomio Koyama in Tokyo and Galleria Lorcan O'Neill in Rome.

In 2014 Beninati had a solo show titled Nature is a Theatre at Inside-Out Art Museum in Beijing[3] and in 2016 the Museo Civico in Castelbuono (Italy) has dedicated an anthological retrospective exhibition covering the first fifteen years of Beninati's work.[4]

Beninati is also a patron of Italian cultural heritage, organizing exhibitions, workshops, seminars and producing publications on Italian talents, through a foundation he and his mother set up in the memory of his younger brother Flavio.[5] Recent projects he has curated include a series of talks on Italian design and a workshop on architecture icon Aldo Rossi held by American architect Thomas Tsang[6][7] in Hong Kong and Palermo.

Trivia

  • He has collaborated with Turkish fashion designer Rifat Ozbek on a dress[8] commission by fashion bi-annual Another Magazine in 2007.
  • His work has appeared in a number of feature films such as, recently, Melissa P. and Flashbacks of a Fool.
  • The 2009 album Maboroshi (E. Ishibashi, G. Gebbia and D. Camarda) features two of Beninati's paintings on the front and back covers.

Solo shows

  • 2016 "Manfredi Beninati", Museo Civico di Castelbuono, Italy
  • 2014 "Manfredi Beninati. Nature is a theater", Inside-Out Miniature Museum, Beijing, China
  • 2013 "Manfredi Beninati. Il sei novembre del duemilatrentanove", Galleria Lorcan O'Neill, Rome, Italy
  • 2011 "Manfredi Beninati", Cura Project Space, Rome, Italy
  • 2011 "Manfredi Beninati. Le voci di dentro" FPAC, Palermo, Italy
  • 2010 "Manfredi Beninati. Dicembre 2039", Max Wigram Gallery, London, UK
  • 2009 "Manfredi Beninati. Rearranging the Landscapes around", Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  • 2008 "Manfredi Beninati. La natura morta", Max Wigram Gallery, London, U.K.
  • 2007 "Manfredi Beninati. La lettera "f"", American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy
  • 2007 "Manfredi Beninati. Flavio and Palermo (in the summer) ", James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA
  • 2007 "Manfredi Beninati. A Flavio", Museo Laboratorio, Città Sant'Angelo (PE), Italy
  • 2006 "Manfredi Beninati", Galeria Braga Menendez, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • 2005 "Manfredi Beninati. Rescued works", Galleria Lorcan O’Neill, Rome, Italy
  • 2005 "Manfredi Beninati. Drawing cabinet", FPAC, Palermo, Italy
  • 2005 "Manfredi Beninati. New Paintings", James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA
  • 2003 "Manfredi Beninati", Galleria Lorcan O’Neill, Rome, Italy

Group shows

  • 2017 "Fragments from nowherland", Kunsthochschule, Kassel, Germany
  • 2016 "Anni Zero. 2016", Gallery of Art - Temple University, Rome, Italy
  • 2016 "La torre di Babele", Pecci Museum, Prato, Italy
  • 2016 "Contemporary Curated - The Erdem Moralioglu's choise", Sotheby's, London, UK
  • 2016 "Dall'oggi al domani. 24 ore nell'arte contemporanea", MACRO, Rome, Italy [9]
  • 2015 "LOGO: Manfredi Beninati, Enzo Cucchi, Laboratorio Saccardi", Galleria Poggiali e Forconi, Florence, Italy
  • 2013 "Outrageous Fortune", Touring Exhibition, Focal Point Gallery, Southend on Sea/ Hayward Gallery, London, UK
  • 2013 "Artisti nello spazio - Da Lucio Fontana a oggi: gli ambienti nell'arte italiana", Fondazione Rocco Guglielmo, Catanzaro, Italy
  • 2012 "Reactivation", 9th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China
  • 2012 "Double Take", 2nd Mardin Bienali, Mardin, Turkey [10]
  • 2011 "A rock and a hard place", 3rd Thessaloniki Biennale, Thessaloniki, Greece [11]
  • 2011 "When in Rome", IIC Los Angeles and Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
  • 2011 "Outrageous Fortune", Touring Exhibition, Focal Point Gallery/ Hayward Gallery, U.K.
  • 2011 "Vanitas!", UCLA, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
  • 2011 "Archive Fever", Open Care, Milano, Italy
  • 2011 "Premio Maretti", Museo Pecci, Prato, Italy
  • 2011 "Accademia. Stanze. Persone.", American Academy in Rome, Italy
  • 2010 "PPS", Riso - Museo Arte Contemporanea di Sicilia, Palermo, Italy
  • 2010 "Argianas, Beninati, Bradley, Buchler, Hugonnier, Hulusi, White", Max Wigram Gallery, London, U.K.
  • 2010 "Memento", La Giarina Arte Contemporanea, Verona, Italy
  • 2010 "I can't feel my face", Royal T art space, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
  • 2009 "Heaven", 2nd Athens Biennale 2009, Athens, Greece [12]
  • 2009 "Collaudi", Italian Pavilion, 53 Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
  • 2009 "The Tree", James Cohan Gallery, Shanghai, China
  • 2009 "No more than a point of view", Prague Biennale, Prague, Czech Republic
  • 2009 "Escaping the dead ends", Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul, Turkey
  • 2009 "Obsession: Contemporary art from the Lodeveans collection", University of Leeds, Leeds, U.K.
  • 2009 "Collections, December; Atsushi Fukui, Gert&Uwe Tobias, Manfredi Beninati, Masaya Yoshimura", TKG Editions Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
  • 2008 "Made Up", Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, U.K.[13]
  • 2008 "Sand: Memory, Meaning and Metaphor", Parrish Museum, Southampton (NY), U.S.A.
  • 2008 "15th Rome Quadriennale", Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
  • 2008 "Imaginary Realities ...", Max Wigram Gallery, London,U.K.
  • 2008 "Dream Therapy", Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York, U.S.A.
  • 2008 "Passed as present", York Art Gallery, York, U.K.
  • 2007 "Summer Show", James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA
  • 2007 "Arte italiana 1968-2007. Pittura", Palazzo Reale, Milano, Italy
  • 2007 "The end begins", The Hospital, London, UK
  • 2007 "Detour", The Art Directors Club, New York, USA
  • 2007 "Open Studios", American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy
  • 2006 "Negotiating reality", Victoria H. Myhren Gallery, University of Denver, Denver, USA
  • 2006 "C’era una volta un re...", Arcos Museo, Benevento, Italy
  • 2006 "Figuring the landscape", Contemporary Art Galleries, Storrs (Ct), USA
  • 2005 "Altmejd, Beninati, Everberg et Margolis", Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France
  • 2005 "12 painters", Galleria In Arco, AB+, Turin, Italy
  • 2005 Padiglione Venezia at Giardini, 51 Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
  • 2004 "Between the lines", James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA
  • 2004 "Expander", Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
  • 2004 "Summer show", Galleria Lorcan O’Neill, Rome, Italy
  • 2004 "Wall Paper", GAMeC, Bergamo, Italy
  • 2003 "Dirty pictures", The Approach Gallery, London, UK
  • 2003 "Quadriennale di Roma-Anteprima", Palazzo Reale, Naples, Italy
  • 2003 "Roma 2003", Galleria Pack, Milan, Italy
  • 2003 "Le collezioni – Recenti acquisizioni", MAXXI – Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo, Rome, Italy[14]
  • 2002 "Www.plot@rt", Rome, Italy

Collections

  • Zabludowicz Collection, Sarvisalo, London, New York[15]
  • Logan Collection, Denver
  • Lodeveans Collection, London[16]
  • MAXXI - Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome[17]
  • UBS Art Collection

Awards and residencies

  • IOAM - Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing, 2013
  • Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship, 2010 [18]
  • Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome, 2006
  • Audience award – Italian pavilion, 51 Venice biennale, 2005
  • Darc Prize for young Italian art, 2004

Writings

References

  1. ↑ Italian ministry of culture website (in Italian)
  2. ↑ List of fellows 1990–2010. American Academy in Rome website
  3. ↑ Inside-Out Museum's official website
  4. ↑ Museo Civico's official website
  5. ↑ Associazione Flavio Beninati homepage (in Italian)
  6. ↑ Artribune (in Italian)
  7. ↑ Associazione Flavio Beninati website (in Italian)
  8. ↑ "All sizes | Another Magazine | Flickr - Photo Sharing!". Flickr. Retrieved 2012-06-28.
  9. ↑ MACRO Museum's official website
  10. ↑ 2nd Mardin Bienali page in Mardin Bienali official website
  11. ↑ Thessaloniki Biennale official website
  12. ↑ The 2nd Athens Biennale 2009 HEAVEN in Biennial Foundation website
  13. ↑ Manfredi Beninati's page on Liverpool Biennial official website Archived 2011-07-07 at the Wayback Machine
  14. ↑ Manfredi Beninati's page on MAXXI Museum official website Archived 2013-12-02 at the Wayback Machine
  15. ↑ List of artists featured in the Zabludowicz Collection (official website) Archived 2013-11-04 at the Wayback Machine
  16. ↑ Lodeveans Collection official website Archived 2013-12-24 at the Wayback Machine
  17. ↑ Beninati's page on MAXXI official website Archived 2013-12-02 at the Wayback Machine
  18. ↑ Manfredi Beninati page in Civitella Ranieri Foundation's official website
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