Biography
Raffaella Benetti born in 1961 in Rovigo, where she still lives. The artist’s interests look to the philosophical and literary tradition with particular interests in some topos of western culture as the theme of Vanitas, often addressed looking for a contemporary declination. She attended the European Centre of Venice for the Conservation of Architectural Patrimony, also in Venice at the A+A Gallery Slovenian Public Exhibition Center the Course in Curatorial Practices and Contemporary Arts. After she attended the course on Architecture and Art for Liturgy at the Pontifical Atheneum of St. Anselm in Rome. These areas of study allows the opening to different languages: painting, sculpture and photography. A research aimed at defining a unique poetics coherent over time even if characterized by a ductile writing and in continuous translation.
Exhibitions
2019 – Salone del Mobile – Milano – Gardeco new design Gallery
2019 – Raffaella Benetti – Rondò – a project curated by Andrea Tinterri – Galleria Arkè – Venezia
2019 – M&O – Parigi – Gardeco Gallery
2018 – London Design Festival – Syon Park – Gardeco gallery
2018 – Frigoriferi Milanesi – Milano – Asta Finarte
2018 – Sculptures – a cura di Sonja Cravits , ICFF – New York- Gardeco gallery
2018 – partecipazione al Salone del Mobile – Milano – Gardeco gallery
2018 – M&O – Paris –Gardeco gallery
2017 – London Design Festival – Syon Park – Gardeco gallery
2017 – Incontri notturni, la notte giunge al termine, il giorno nasce sui ciliegi (omaggio a Bashò) – a cura di Sergio Garbato – Antico Coghetto – Rovigo
2017 – WOPART – Lugano – BAG gallery
2017 – MIA Fhoto Fair – Milano – BAG gallery
2017 – M&O Paris – Gardeco gallery
2016 – Messe Frankfurt – Germany – Gardeco gallery
2016 – WOPART – Lugano – Bag gallery
2016 – VANITAS – Elisa Montessori, Raffaella Benetti – a cura di A. Tinterri – Parma – BAG Gallery
2015 – Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Center – Singapore – Gardeco gallery
2015 – M&O Americas in Miami Beach – Gardeco gallery
2015 – SOTTOSOPRA – Palazzo di Lorenzo – Galatina – Lecce
2015 – Sculptures –Gardeco gallery -Parc des expositions – Paris
2014 – A che punto è la notte? – a cura di Stefano Leopizzi – Palazzo Vescovile Cenate – Nardò- Lecce
2014 – Tracce – a cura di Tiziana Leopizzi – Museo Costurero – Merida- Spagna
2014 – THE RED SIGN – Galleria Linea d’arte Elle A – Bari
2014 – Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Center – Singapore – Gardeco gallery
2014 – Messe Franfurt – Germany – Gardeco gallery
2014 – Artour-o il Must – a cura di Tiziana Leopizzi- Chiostro di Santa Maria Novella – Firenze
2013 – T’amo – a cura Giovanni Morgese – Civica Galleria di Arte Contemporanea Torrione Angioino – Bitonto
2013 – Paesaggio italiano. Artisti italiani nel loro habitat – a cura Massimo Romani e Fabrizio Molinario – Museo Municipale di Bucarest; Museo d’Arte, Poiesti (Romania) – Museo del basso Danubio, Calarasi (Romania) – Galleria d’Arte Moderna e contemporanea, Silistra (Bulgaria)
2013 – Artour-o il Must – Montecarlo, a cura di Tiziana Leopizzi – Ambasciata d’Italia
2013 – La Grande Onda. Omaggio ad Hokusai – a cura di Adelinda Allegretti – MU.MA Galata Museo del Mare.
2013 – NY Now – JKJ Convention Center, New York – USA – Gardeco gallery
2013 – Messe Frankfurt – Germany – Gardeco gallery
2012 – A Red carpet for Italian Interiors – a cura di Tiziana leopizzi – Ventique – Londra
2012 – Sesta Triennale d’Arte Sacra Contemporanea, Premio Paolo VI – Lecce- a cura di Toti Carpentieri
2011 – Messe Frankfurt – Germany – Gardeco gallery
2011 – Gardeco bvba – Brussels Expo – Belgio
2011 – Percettivo Imperfetto – Galleria A plus A – Centro Espositivo Sloveno – Venezia
2010 – Colori di Luce – a cura di Saverio Simi De Burgis – Galleria la Bottega – Gorizia
2009 – Omaggio a Papa Giovanni Paolo II – Basilica di Santa Maria in Aracoeli – Roma
2009 – Sculture – a cura di Giovanna Ascanelli – Convento dei Cappuccini – Castel San Pietro (Bologna)
2007 – Pensiero – Palazzo Nagliati Braghini Rossetti – Ferrara
2006 – Sculture – Castello Estense – Mesola – Ferrara
2005 – Sculture – Villa Badoer – Fratta Polesine – Rovigo