Title: Lost civilization of vessels
2009
video, DVD stream MPEG2 PAL 4:3 Stereo, 5' 10''.
This short movie has been realized with homonymous photographic series, consisting of 675 elaborations 24x32 cm, in order to create an additional narration that serves to better comprehend the meaning project.
As a file of mysterious and alien origins, the artwork displays the finds of what seem a civilization suddenly disappeared.
Of this civilization, incomprehensible to the eyes of exotic archaeologists, remain nothing but but debris of toxic substances and rubbish, which lay under an invisible dust into a still atmosphere, crystallized, with muffled reverberations, where the nature slowly returns to its archaic equilibriums.
From these poisonous debris, lost on calm moor, one tries to deduce with logic the fate fell on this “civilization of the vessels” that it has vanished leaving no other traces.
These debris are the only clues of the past existence of a certain form of almost intelligent life, that however has gone lost or has been corrupted up to the self-destruction.
The echo of a foolish tumult from a distant planet extinguishes itself in a final dull roar.
Perhaps attracted by this roar, the travellers came in this stone lost in the cosmos just to ascertain the end of that tumult.
An introduction
The artistic expression of Benna is characterized by the coexistence of two fundamental elements:
a firm conceptual substratum and a unsettled aesthetic appearance.
Benna takes advantage of sundry disciplines and techniques: painting, photography, graphics,
cinematography, sculpture, as well literature and music. Therefore eclecticism is the most suitable
word to define his production which is constituted by graphic, photographic and synthetic artworks,
short films, acrylic or oil paintings, poems, assembled objects and more.
This eclecticism does not have a merely experimental intent, since it is the result of a planning in
the choice of the expression form, or the language, that is best suited for the manifestation of a
concept.
The significances are a constant presence in his artworks, which always take origin from a
conceptual research. This research becomes accomplished through the technical expression, or
even merely aesthetic, but always showing an interest for universal, social or humane
metaphysical topics, faced sometimes in a grieve manner and sometimes with irony.
A short resume
2009 - Con Andy Warhol, collective exposition, Capri (Naples) - Italy
participation with photographic and computer graphics artworks
2008 - Artintown, collective exposition - Turin - Italy
participation with video art installations, painting and photography
2007 - Sperimenta 2007, cinematographic parade - Dodes'ka-den - Chiavari - Italy
premiere of some short movies
2007 - Dedalo, collective exposition - Villa Grimaldi - Lavagna - Italy
participation with painting, photography and audio
2006 - "short movie #1" winner of the Golem Videofestival - Turin - Italy
2006 - Sperimenta 2006, cinematographic parade - Dodes'ka-den - Chiavari - Italy
premiere of some short movies
2006 - Essere Visual, visual arts happening - Prato - Italy
premiere of some short movies
2006 - La faccia omessa, collective exposition - Jizaino Arts - Genoa - Italy
participation with painting and photography
2005 - Sperimenta 2005, cinematographic parade - Dodes'ka-den - Chiavari - Italy
premiere of some short movies
2005 - Bela Lugosi is not dead, collective exposition - Agheiro - Lavagna - Italy
participation with visual art installation
Bio
Benna was born in the second half of the XX century, in summertime. He lives on the surface of the
planet Earth, preferring the sea shore. He sojourns in Italy, between Liguria and Tuscany, lands
that arouse those poetic meditations from which his artworks have originated.
Creativity and devotion for the visual arts have characterized him since childhood. He
decides to be an artist at the age of thirteen, but he is misled by art schools, just for a while,
therefore he intensely devotes himself to autodidactic studies in a variety of fields
Curator: Pietro Franesi
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