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ANDREA BENETTI
Bologna, Emilia Romagna - Italy



Original Artworks (18)

Andrea Benetti; Sinapsi, 2020, Original Painting Other, 70 x 70 inches. Artwork description: 241 olio e ossidi su telaoil and oxides on canvas...
Andrea Benetti
Original Other Painting, 2020
70 x 70 inches (177.8 x 177.8 cm)
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Andrea Benetti; Girandola Magica, 2020, Original Painting Other, 60 x 60 cm. Artwork description: 241 olio e cacao su telaoil and cacao on canvas...
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Original Other Painting, 2020
60 x 60 cm (23.6 x 23.6 inches)
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Andrea Benetti; Amore Ritrovato, 2015, Original Painting Other, 70 x 50 cm. Artwork description: 241 olio e hennA
Andrea Benetti
Original Other Painting, 2015
70 x 50 cm (27.6 x 19.7 inches)
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Andrea Benetti; Mareggiata, 2020, Original Painting Other, 120 x 80 cm. Artwork description: 241 olio e ossidi su tela...
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Original Other Painting, 2020
120 x 80 cm (47.2 x 31.5 inches)
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Andrea Benetti; Il Mio Universo, 2020, Original Painting Other, 80 x 50 cm. Artwork description: 241 olio e hennA
Andrea Benetti
Original Other Painting, 2020
80 x 50 cm (31.5 x 19.7 inches)
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Andrea Benetti; Sentiero Sacro, 2013, Original Painting Other, 90 x 60 cm. Artwork description: 241 olio e curcuma su telaoil and turmeric on canvas...
Andrea Benetti
Original Other Painting, 2013
90 x 60 cm (35.4 x 23.6 inches)
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Andrea Benetti; Cinema, 2020, Original Painting Other, 50 x 80 cm. Artwork description: 241 olio e ossidi su tela...
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Original Other Painting, 2020
50 x 80 cm (19.7 x 31.5 inches)
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Andrea Benetti; Fuga Impossibile, 2015, Original Painting Other, 70 x 70 cm. Artwork description: 241 olio e hennA
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Original Other Painting, 2015
70 x 70 cm (27.6 x 27.6 inches)
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Andrea Benetti; Lune In Cielo, 2015, Original Painting Other, 80 x 60 cm. Artwork description: 241 olio e curcuma e acrilico su telaoil, turmeric and acrylic on canvas...
Andrea Benetti
Original Other Painting, 2015
80 x 60 cm (31.5 x 23.6 inches)
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Andrea Benetti; Cosmo, 2019, Original Painting Other, 70 x 80 cm. Artwork description: 241 olio e hennA
Andrea Benetti
Original Other Painting, 2019
70 x 80 cm (27.6 x 31.5 inches)
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Andrea Benetti; Le Sirene, 2020, Original Painting Other, 100 x 80 cm. Artwork description: 241 olio e ossidi su telaoil and oxides on canvas...
Andrea Benetti
Original Other Painting, 2020
100 x 80 cm (39.4 x 31.5 inches)
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Andrea Benetti; Omaggio A Bologna, 2009, Original Painting Other, 70 x 50 cm. Artwork description: 241 olio e cacao e acrilico su telaoil, cacao and acrylic on canvas...
Andrea Benetti
Original Other Painting, 2009
70 x 50 cm (27.6 x 19.7 inches)
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Andrea Benetti; Chimica Astratta, 2020, Original Painting Other, 50 x 70 cm. Artwork description: 241 olio e ossidi su telaoil and oxides on canvas...
Andrea Benetti
Original Other Painting, 2020
50 x 70 cm (19.7 x 27.6 inches)
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Andrea Benetti; Mulini A Vento, 2009, Original Painting Other, 150 x 100 cm. Artwork description: 241 olio e cacao e acrilico su tela...
Andrea Benetti
Original Other Painting, 2009
150 x 100 cm (59.1 x 39.4 inches)
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Andrea Benetti; Cameo, 2020, Original Painting Other, 50 x 70 cm. Artwork description: 241 olio e ossidi su tela...
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Original Other Painting, 2020
50 x 70 cm (19.7 x 27.6 inches)
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Andrea Benetti; Amori Estivi, 2018, Original Painting Other, 120 x 30 cm. Artwork description: 241 olio e ossidi su tela...
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Original Other Painting, 2018
120 x 30 cm (47.2 x 11.8 inches)
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Andrea Benetti; Sabato Sera, 2019, Original Painting Other, 70 x 60 cm. Artwork description: 241 olio su telaoil on canvas...
Andrea Benetti
Original Other Painting, 2019
70 x 60 cm (27.6 x 23.6 inches)
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Andrea Benetti; Cavallo Con Tori, 2010, Original Painting Other, 50 x 70 cm.
Andrea Benetti
Original Other Painting, 2010
50 x 70 cm (19.7 x 27.6 inches)
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Artist Statement

Manifesto of Neo Cave Art was presented by Andrea Benetti at the 53rd Venice Biennale in the Natura e sogni “Nature and Dreams” pavilion in the Ca Foscari University, San Giobbe, Cannaregio, Venice, Italy

MANIFESTO DELLARTE NEORUPESTRE
Manifesto of Neo Cave Painting
by Andrea Benetti

Since the dawn of humanity, well before the invention of written language, Man felt the need to communicate, to leave some trace of his passage through this world. This he accomplished through painting.
Early Man had to deal with the sun, the earth, the waters and the sky every day… had to find a way to find his place in the balance of Nature. And even when Nature was unthreatening, he was in awe of Her, treating Her with the respect due a Deity, in full awareness of his own human limitations. Contemporary Man has denied those limits and trampled that respect, placing himself at the center of the universe and giving his own selfish needs absolute priority. In doing so, he has stupidly destroyed the enchantment and desecrated the sanctity of Life and Nature.
So let’s take a step backward.
Let’s start over, with the proper respect for Nature and for human life as our point of departure. Art needs to begin afresh from its earliest form cave painting.
We need to go back to the dawn of Man and his primeval art to reconstruct the world a new world in which respect for Nature and human dignity are finally at the heart of the will of Man. Only in this way will we reaffirm the sacredness of Life which we have sacrificed in favor of an empty, short-sighted lifestyle, one which has been leading us to our own destruction. We need to re-create the necessary conditions to be able to envelop the world in love and peace.
Let’s begin with cave paintings, with which primitive man, being far wiser than we are, decorated his rocky walls to gain favor with the supernatural forces.
This is what Art can do.
We must rediscover within ourselves that primordial, uncontaminated essence, free of the preconceptions which condition modern Man conditions imposed by a global consumption-driven society that is spurring us on to become unstoppable producers and insatiable consumers of an endless stream of goods.
We need to rebalance the relationship between Man and Environment, between production and consumption.
We need to seek the purity of our inner child who has yet to discover the world but instead still interprets it through his imagination, observing it with wonder and curiosity.
We need to live as if the present moment were eternal, regarding the past with a critical, but constructively critical eye. We must cease seeing our lives as merely utilitarian, where every action can be likened to a chess move, aimed at conquering the board.
We must learn to live by listening to our own essence that childlike essence that loves contact with nature, eats healthy food, lives in tune with traditions, the deep-rooted and widely-shared values that have long buoyed humanity. We seek refuge from the advancing cement blocks, from the plastics that have come to envelop everything, from the frantic pace that subconsciously permeates our every deed, pushing us into a headlong rush even when there is effectively no need to hurry.
Let’s take back the course of history and not passively accept the changes forced on us by the powers that be, which, through campaigns of persuasion tactics, have tried to take away our individual personhood and reduce us to mere numbers, weighed down with heavy minds.
A person cannot be reduced to a number, not even in the face of the unprecedented rise in global population.
We need to remember that the human being is, first and foremost, an ethereal essence, beyond his material body, which all too often is obsessed with the pursuit of ephemeral pleasures. This concept seems to have escaped our conscious mind and its flight has had dire consequences. To deny or fail to cultivate the immaterial sphere of our humanity is to deny that which makes us human.
This concept is not rooted in any religion, but is the fruit of a “dualistic” view of the individual which recognizes that human beings develop and grow on both levels. Not allowing the material side of life to outweigh the ethereal is a sign of wisdom and awareness that elevates us above other living creatures. Without this element of mystery, of immaterialism, man has no future and is destined to become extinct. But before extinction, he will have reached the lowest point of his existence, where life itself ceases to be of value, having been sacrificed on the altar of rampant hedonism devoid of any solid content. By the same token, as far as art goes, symbols, lines and colors need to once again be the main features of a painting, recounting in their simplicity and beauty the life they represent. We need to allow the sense of primordial instincts that resides within each of us to be our guide, our key to interpreting the world around us. Even our assimilation and use of the most advanced technologies has to be filtered by this sensitivity.
This sense of mystery, of the unknown, must reign unencumbered in art. There must be an element of doubt because in a “society of certainties,” there is no room for imagination and anything that recalls imagination seems fake, designed in some office to produce a particular effect. We draw distinct boundaries between that which is truly felt, which comes from that “mysterious” part of ourselves, and that which is false and exploitive.
A broken-down washing machine or a rusted bicycle are not art they are simply a broken-down washing machine or a rusted bicycle.
Art is another thing altogether.
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