To Dream, to Collect
Reference
b135f9c0
Year
2017
Medium
Paintings
Size
50 x 50 cm
19.69 x 20 in
Artwork offered by
Glauco Cavaciuti Arte, Milan
Category
Medium: acrylic on canvas and resin.
The work of Florence Di Benedetto is created from a photographic shot and it is printed on paper sheets. Each single sheet reproduces a portion of the photo. The artist then applies the leaves on a white canvas to recompose the image in its entirety. The surface of the canvas is rubbed with a wet cloth so that the inks on the paper move on the fabric of the canvas itself. Following this phase, Di Benedetto removes wet paper, and paints with acrylic and resin the trace of the inks that the paper has released on the canvas.
About the Artist
1975 , Italy
Florence Di Benedetto was born in Bari in 1975 by French mother and Italian father. After graduating in Fine Arts in the United States, he graduated from the Italian Institute of Photography in Milan in 1998. He works as a fashion photographer and "still-life" and at the same time he undertakes a personal research focused on the contamination be...
About the Gallery
Address
Milan, Via Vincenzo Monti, 28
Glauco Cavaciuti inaugurates his Gallery in March 2006, dedicating an exhibition to Cracking Art artistic group. In the following years, the Gallery's expositive activity has gone up and up, containing Riccardo Gusmaroli's (Verona, 1963), Fabrizio Pozzoli's (Milan,1973) and David Reimondo's (Genova,1972) exhibitions. Since the beginning, Cavaciuti's purpose...