Galerie de Andrea Benetti

Biographie de Andrea Benetti

Andrea Benetti was born in Bologna in 1964. He is a painter, photographer and designer. In 2006, he drew up the Manifesto of Neo-Cave Art, presented in 2009 at the 53rd Venice Biennale, at the Ca' Foscari University. The Manifesto is inspired by the birth of art, by the cave painting of Prehistory. Andrea Benetti's artistic poetics transfigures, quotes, reinvents and plays with ideas and forms of cave painting, creating an imaginary bridge, between contemporaneity and the origin of art. For over ten years, the Bolognese artist has been carrying out projects in collaboration with various Italian and foreign universities, including Johns Hopkins University, the universities of Bologna, Ferrara, Bari, Roma Tre, Lecce and Bergamo. Over the years, some universities have included Andrea Benetti's Neo-Cave Art in the research program. His works have been acquired by museums and various institutional collections around the world, including that of the United Nations, the Quirinale (seat of the Presidency of the Italian Republic), the Italian Chamber of Deputies, the Vatican and some Italian Embassies around the world. In the last decade, Andrea Benetti has been received at the Quirinale, the Chamber of Deputies and the Vatican. He met Pope Benedict XVI in 2012 and Pope Francis in 2014. Many university professors and important art critics wrote about his painting, actively participating in the projects conceived by the Emilian artist. Since 2015, the voice "Andrea Benetti" is present in the Treccani encyclopedia (one of the most important encyclopedias in the world) and on Wikipedia the voice is translated into 30 languages. In 2020, Andrea Benetti was awarded the 49th “Nettuno d'Oro” prize, the longest-running and most prestigious artistic prize in the city of Bologna.

MUSEUMS AND COLLECTIONS
United Nations Art Collection ∙ New York, U.S.A.
Vatican Art Collection ∙ Vatican, Italy
Virginia Commonwealth University ∙ Richmond, U.S.A.
MACIA ∙ Italian Contemporary Art Museum in America ∙ San Jose, Costa Rica
Argentine Ministry of Justice and Human Rights ∙ Buenos Aires, Argentina
Rinaldi-Paladino Art Museum Foundation ∙ Lugano, Switzerland
Copelouzos Family Art Museum Collection ∙ Athens, Greece
Italian Embassy in China ∙ Beijing, China
Italian Embassy in New Zealand ∙ Wellington, New Zealand

Quirinale Art Collection ∙ Italian Presidency of the Republic ∙ Roma, Italy
Montecitorio Palace ∙ Italian Parliament ∙ Chamber Of Deputies ∙ Roma, Italy
Mambo ∙ Museum of Modern Art Bologna ∙ Bologna, Italy
Museion ∙ Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Bolzano ∙ Bolzano, Italy
CAMeC ∙ Center of Modern and Contemporary Art ∙ La Spezia, Italy
Osvaldo Licini Contemporary Art Museum ∙ Ascoli Piceno, Italy
University of Ferrara Art Collection ∙ Ferrara, Italy
University of Bari Art Collection ∙ Bari, Italy
MuMi ∙ Michetti Museum ∙ Francavilla al Mare, Italy
U.N.E.S.C.O. Art Collection ∙ Bologna, Italy
Municipality of Lecce Art Collection ∙ Lecce, Italy
Amedeo Modigliani Museum ∙ Follonica, Italy
ARTinGENIO Museum ∙ Pisa, Italia
Silvestro Lega Museum ∙ Modigliana, Italy
Speleological Museum "Franco Anelli" ∙ Grotte di Castellana, Italy
Contemporary Art Museum ∙ Logudoro Meilogu Foundation ∙ Banari, Italy
Facchini Collection ∙ La Fenice et des Artistes ∙ Venice, Italy