Manfredi Beninati portfolio

Manfredi Beninati

Palermo (Italy)

11 January 1970

SOLO SHOWS

2015 – “Manfredi Beninati”, Hic sunt Leones, Athens, Greece

2014 – “Manfredi Beninati”, Joyce, Hong Kong

2014 - "Manfredi Beninati. Nature is a Theater", 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, UK

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 - "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

2013 - "Artisti nello spazio - Da Lucio Fontana a oggi: gli ambienti nell'arte italiana", Fondazione Rocco

Guglielmo, Catanzaro, Italy

2013 - "Outrageous Fortune", Touring Exhibition, Hayward Gallery, UK

2013 - "Party with us. Ten years after", FPAC, Palermo, Italy

2012 - "9th Shanghai Biennale", Shanghai, China

2012 - "Double Take", 2nd Mardin Bienali, Mardin, Turkey

2011 - "3rd Thessaloniki Biennale", Thessaloniki, Greece

2011 - "When in Rome", ICI Los Angeles and Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA

2011 - "Outrageous Fortune", Touring Exhibition, Focal Point Gallery, UK

2011 - "Vanitas!", UCLA, Los Angeles, USA

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, UK

2010 - "Memento", La Giarina Arte Contemporanea, Verona, Italy

2010 - "I can't feel my face", Royal T art space, Los Angeles, USA

2009- "Heaven", 2nd Athens Biennale 2009, Athens, Greece

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 Biennial, Prague, Czech Republic

2009 - "Escaping the dead ends", Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul, Turkey

2009 - "Obsession: Contemporary art from the Lodeveans collection", University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

2009 - "Atsushi Fukui, Gert&Uwe Tobias, Manfredi Beninati, Masaya Yoshimura", TKG Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan

2008 - "Made Up", Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK

2008- "Sand", Parrish Museum, Southampton (NY), USA

2008 - "15th Rome Quadriennale", Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy

2008 - "Imaginary Realities ...", Max Wigram Gallery, London,UK

2008 - "Dream Therapy", Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York, USA

2008 - "Passed as present", York Art Gallery, York, UK

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

AWARDS

2013 - Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing

2010 - Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship

2006 - Rome Prize , American Academy in Rome

2005 - Audience award - Italian pavilion, 51 Venice biennale

2004 - Darc Prize for young Italian art

Pencil on Fabriano paper on board, 2001


Pencil and acrylic gesso on paper on wood, 81x125cm, 2001

Pencil, charcoal and acrylic gesso on paper on canvas, approx. 150x180cm, 2001

Pencil and gesso on paper on wood, 2001

Pencil, gesso and coffee on paper on board, 2001

Oil on board, 2001

Oil on board, approx. 15x18cm, 2001

Pencil, gesso and ink on paper on board, 2001/2002

Pencil and gesso on paper on canvas, 2001/2004

Pencil and watercolor on Fabriano paper on board, 2001

Pencil, gesso and ink on Fabriano paper on board, 45x58cm, 2001


Pencil on Fabriano paper on board, 60x70cm, 2002

Pencil and ink on Fabriano paper on board, 45x58cm, 2002




Oil on board, 2001

Oil on board, 2001

Oil on board, 2002

Oil on board, 2002/2005

Oil on board, approx. 50x50cm, 2002 (I version)

Oil on canvas, 103.5x103.5cm, 2002 (II version)


Oil on canvas, approx. 100x100cm, 2002 (II version)

Oil on board, 2003

Oil on canvas, 2003

Oil on canvas, 2003

Oil on canvas, 2003

Pencil on Fabriano paper on board, 2002/2003

Oil on canvas, 2003

Oil on canvas, 2003

Oil on canvas, 2002/2003

Oil on canvas, 2003

Oil on canvas, 190x190 cm, 2002/2003 (III version)


Oil on canvas,98x98cm, 2003


Oil on canvas, 2003

Oil on canvas, 2003

Oil on board, 2003

Oil on canvas, 2003

Oil on board, 2003

Oil on paper on canvas, 2003

Oil on board, 2003

Oil on board, 2004

Oil on canvas, approx. 130x150cm, 2004

Oil on canvas, 105x105cm, 2003

Oil on board, 2004

Oil on board, 2004


Oil on canvas, approx. 70x70cm, 2004 (II vers.)










Pencil and coffee on paper on board, 60x80cm, 2004

Tarot cards from a deck of 90 pieces

Pencil and ink on Fabriano paper, 2001/2004

Pencil and ink on Fabriano paper, 2001/2004 (From a deck of 90 card

Pva vinavil glue on papier-mâché on wood, 114x114x88cm, 2005

Ink on paper, 44.5x34.5cm, 2005







"Taking notes for a dream that begins in the afternoon and continues through the night (and is not

canceled out on awakening) or "Waking up on a beach in the scorching sun"

"Prendere appunti per un sogno da iniziare di pomeriggio e continuare la notte (e che non si

cancella al risveglio)" ovvero "Sveglliarsi su una spiaggia sotto il sole cocente"

Installation at 51 Venice Biennale, 2005

Mixed media: wood, glass, fabric, …

Collage on board,70x50cm, 2005/2006

Collage on board,70x50cm, 2005/2006

Collage on board, 122x100cm, 2005

Collage on board,122x100cm, 2005

Collage on board,122x100cm, 2005

Collage on board, 2005



Oil on canvas, 100x100cm, 2004/2005

Oil on board 27x40cm, , 2005

Oil on canvas,175x170cm, 2005


Pencil on paper, 100x70cm, 2005










Oil on canvas, 2006


Oil on canvas,150x130cm, 2006/2007

Bronze, 12x17x22cm, 2006

“12 mins of self-inflicted exile” – Installation at Arcos Museum, 2006

Mixed media

Pencil, gesso and coffee on paper on board, 52x64,5cm, 2006

Framed drawing (Pencil on Fabriano paper 40x52cm) behind an opaqued glass, 50x64cm, 2006/2007

Mixed media, glass-box and wooden table, 74x74x167cm, 2007

Collage on canvas, 160x200cm, 2006


Collage on canvas, approx 180x220cm, 2006



Oil on board, 60x60cm, 2006




Collage on paper, approx. 40x30cm, 2006/2007




Raw clay on plywood, 2007

Photograph, 2007

“Fruits from an ocean nearby” - Installation at James Cohan Gallery, N.Y., 2007

Mixed media: wood, plasterboard, carpet, curtains, furniture, books, glass, sand, etc

Moleskine Detour

Mixed media, 2007 (Moleskine notebook)

Fabric, ink, acrylic gesso, tic-tacs, plastic, cotton thread, 2007













Pencil collage and graphite on paper, 100x70cm, 2007

“Something to build on” - Installation at Ravello Festival, 2008

Mixed media: Replica of the study in Antonello da Messina’s Saint Jerome made in wood, MDF, glass,

books, stuffed birds, spotlights, etc

Pencil and ink on paper on wood, approx. 35x50cm, 2008

"Svolgimento: ipotesi 1: tracciare la traiettoria dell’orbita del sole attorno alla terra attraverso il

riallineamento di tutti i punti della ellisse della terra attorno al sole"

Installation at Quadriennale di Roma, 2008

Mixed media: furniture, upholstery, plants, glass, rubbles, scaffoldings, cyclorama film studio lights


Oil on board, 60x60cm, 2008








“To think of something” – Mixed media - Installation at Liverpool Biennial, 2008

Ceramite gesso and wood, approx. 80x80x80cm, 2008

Collage on paper, 83x60cm, 2008

Collage on paper, 83x60cm, 2008

“Rearranging the landscapes around” – Mixed media - Installation at Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, 2009

Fresco # 1

Tempera on mortar on a wooden structure, 180x195cm, 2009

Fresco # 2

Tempera on mortar on a wooden structure, 180x195cm, 2009

Collage on paper, approx. 40x30cm, 2009

Collage on paper, approx. 30x40cm, 2009

Photograph of paper origamis and china porcelain, 2009

“Triangles in squares made out of circles” - Installation at Athens Biennale, 2009

Mixed media: bricks, concrete, wood, furniture, plants, etc

Pencil on Fabriano paper on panels, 250x300cm, 2003/2004





Gesso and wood, approx. 50x70x30cm, 2010

Gesso and wood, 2010

Gesso and wood, 2010

Spray paint on acrilic, life-size, 2011

Mixed media: plywood, plastic, glass, human dummies, etc, - Installation at Thessaloniki Biennale, 2011

Mixed media: podium, furniture, curtains, paper, mirrors, plywood landscape silhouette, painted

sunset/dawn - Installation, 2011

Mixed media: podium, furniture, curtains, paper, mirrors, plywood landscape silhouette, painted

sunset/dawn - Installation, 2011

Light-box, variable size, 2011 (edition of 10)

Plaster, 31x34x138cm, 2011

Resin, 25x20.5x30cm, 2011

Oil on canvas, approx. 100x80cm, 2009/2011

Oil on canvas, 160x200cm, 2011 (II version)


Oil on canvas, approx. 70x70cm, 2011 (II version)

Mixed media: furniture, metal dishes, photocopies – Installation at Mardin Biennale – Turkey 2012

Framed photograph installed at Archivio Flavio Beninati, 2013

Mixed media: furniture, paper plates, painting – Installation at Galleria Lorcan O’Neill, 2013







Oil on wood, 30x21cm, 2013 (II version)

Oil on wood, approx. 20x38cm, 2013

Oil on wood, approx. 28x34cm, 2013 (II version)


Oil on wood, 21x30cm, 2013

Oil on wood, 21x30cm, 2013 (III version)

Oil on wood, 21x30cm, 2013

Oil on wood, 21x 30cm, 2013

Oil on wood, 30x21cm, 2013 (II version)

Oil on canvas, 120x150cm, 2013 (I version)


Oil on canvas, 200x160cm, 2013 (III version)

Oil on canvas, 150x120cm, 2013 (painted with two kids)

Oil on canvas, 200x160cm, 2013 (IV version)







Terracotta, 2008/2014

Terracotta, 2014

Pencil on paper, 2013/2014 (Series of 24)

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Manfredi Beninati portfolio