Group show
Celebration
When
2023
In her artistic production there is a recurrent use of installations, videos, and photography which function as devices to initiate not only strong emotional suggestions, but also to provide a new moral focus in the viewer.
In the background, pressing questions loom on present condition and identity, on their relationships with the past and a push to reconsider it in a new light.
Elisabetta Benassi
The Pure Who Can
2024
Hand-knotted wool carpet
290 x 370 cm
Elisabetta Benassi
Camelopardalis (Testa di Michelangelo)
2024
Bronze
250 × 95 × 95 cm
Site-specific installation for Chiostro di Michelangelo, Terme di Diocleziano, Rome
Elisabetta Benassi
Divine
2024
Frottage on paper
Five elements, each 42 × 30 cm
Elisabetta Benassi
City Lights
2015-2023
15 illuminated signs, 5 steel poles, satellite watch, concrete plinth
1040 × ⌀ 670 cm
Permanent installation at Parco d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan
Elisabetta Benassi
City Lights
2015-2023
15 illuminated signs, 5 steel poles, satellite watch, concrete plinth
1040 × ⌀ 670 cm
Permanent installation at Parco d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan
Elisabetta Benassi
City Lights
2015-2023
15 illuminated signs, 5 steel poles, satellite watch, concrete plinth
1040 × ⌀ 670 cm
Permanent installation at Parco d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan
Elisabetta Benassi
Pietre di Testa [Headstones]
2022
Cloth-bound portfolio of 7 prints on paper (81 × 60 cm each)
Edition Beatrice & Flaminia Bulla
Edition of 19
Elisabetta Benassi
Le ceneri di Gramsci
2022
Artificial palm leaf, book, resin, natural fiber, polypropylene
127 × 16,5 × 24 cm
Elisabetta Benassi
Le ceneri di Gramsci
2022
Artificial palm leaf, book, resin, natural fiber, polypropylene
127 × 16,5 × 24 cm
Elisabetta Benassi
Dealing Cards
2018-2022
Glazed ceramic, 15 elements (44 × 30 × 1.5 cm each)
Elisabetta Benassi
Elisabetta Benassi, Banca Carige
2021
Watercolor on paper
50 x 61 cm
Elisabetta Benassi
Lady and Gentlemen
2021
9 refrigerators (47 × 38 × 44.5 cm each), 9 watercolours on paper, ballpoint pen, site-specific dimensions.
Installation view at Fondazione Pini, Milan 2021
Elisabetta Benassi
Lady and Gentlemen
2021
9 refrigerators (47 × 38 × 44.5 cm each), 9 watercolours on paper, ballpoint pen, site-specific dimensions
Detail. Installation view at Fondazione Pini, Milan 2021
Elisabetta Benassi
Cosciente Solidale
2020
Hand-knotted wool carpet
265 x 380 cm
Elisabetta Benassi
EMPIRE
2018-2019
6000 English hand-made black and purple firebricks (11.5 × 25 × 8 cm each), 1 bronze brick covered with gold leaf (11.5 × 25 × 8 cm), 195 × 1015 × 369 cm
Museo Nazionale Romano, Palazzo Altemps, Rome, 2019
Elisabetta Benassi
EMPIRE
2018-2019
6000 English hand-made black and purple firebricks (11.5 × 25 × 8 cm each), 1 bronze brick covered with gold leaf (11.5 × 25 × 8 cm), 195 × 1015 × 369 cm
Museo Nazionale Romano, Palazzo Altemps, Rome, 2019
Elisabetta Benassi
EMPIRE
2018-2019
6000 English hand-made black and purple firebricks (11.5 × 25 × 8 cm each), 1 bronze brick covered with gold leaf (11.5 × 25 × 8 cm), 195 × 1015 × 369 cm
Museo Nazionale Romano, Palazzo Altemps, Rome, 2019
Elisabetta Benassi
EMPIRE
2018-2021
6000 English hand-made black and purple firebricks (11.5 × 25 × 8 cm each), 1 bronze brick covered with gold leaf (11.5 × 25 × 8 cm), 195 × 1015 × 369 cm
Museo Nazionale Romano, Crypta Balbi, Rome
Elisabetta Benassi
Mimetica
2018
Artificial palm tree, steel, resin, natural fiber, polypropylene
260 × 385 × 380 cm
Elisabetta Benassi
Prosperity
2017
Automated ironing machine, vapour
157 x 100 x 120 cm
Installation view at Collezione Maramotti
Elisabetta Benassi
Zeitnot
2017
Five thousand English firebricks
175 x 500 x 380 cm
Installation view at Collezione Maramotti
Elisabetta Benassi
Shadow work
2017
English firebricks, Eastern carpets
103 x 550 x 435 cm
Installation view at Collezione Maramotti
Elisabetta Benassi
It starts with the firing
2017
Five metal elements, posters, audio track
Dimensions variable
Installation view at Collezione Maramotti
Elisabetta Benassi
Infinity
2017
Bronze, wood wedges, gloves
310 x 40 x 47 cm
Installation view at Collezione Maramotti
Elisabetta Benassi
Unknown Here
2016
Hand-knotted wool carpet
300 x 397 cm
Elisabetta Benassi
Letargo
2016
Ford Escort, bronze, soil
Two elements, each 20 x 40 x 60 cm
Installation view at Magazzino
Elisabetta Benassi
Letargo
2016
Ford Escort, bronze, soil
Environmental dimensions
Installation view at Magazzino
Elisabetta Benassi
Autoritratto a lavoro (Self-Portrait at Work)
2016
Motor Hoe (Meccanica Benassi)
105 x 70 x 140 cm
Installation view at Magazzino
Elisabetta Benassi
Salamandra ZAF
2016
Steel and car emblems
171 x 350 cm
Installation view at Magazzino
Elisabetta Benassi
That’s Me In The Picture (post-card)
2016
Double-sided inkjet print on rice paper, walnut wood
210 x 110 cm
Elisabetta Benassi
That’s Me In The Picture (post-card)
2016
Double-sided inkjet print on rice paper, walnut wood
210 x 110 cm
Elisabetta Benassi
Road Rage
2016
Found truck tyre, gilded bronze
105 x 105 x 30 cm
Elisabetta Benassi
M’FUMU
2015
Cast ceramic plaster, ink, steel
Installation view at Belgian Pavilion, 56th Biennale di Venezia
Elisabetta Benassi
GGGSSSPPPPPPTTTRRRRRRGGGNNN
2014
Bronze
Variable dimensions, h 45 cm (each)
Elisabetta Benassi
Corsaro
2014
Performance, Maxxi, Rome
Elisabetta Benassi
Pausa lavoro (Mensa in fabbrica)
2013
Metal, laminated wood, motor, electronic switch, electric wires
76 × 600 × 90 cm
Installation view at Fondazione Merz, Turin, 2013
Elisabetta Benassi
Mareo Merz
2013
Wooden fishing vessel, car (Audi A4 Avant 1.8T) owned by Mario Merz, fishing net, steel
900 × 1200 × 300 cm
Installation view MAXXI, Rome
Elisabetta Benassi
Mareo Merz
2013
Wooden fishing vessel, car (Audi A4 Avant 1.8T) owned by Mario Merz, fishing net, steel
900 × 1200 × 300 cm
Installation view MAXXI, Rome
Elisabetta Benassi
Passato e presente
2013
Book, wrought iron nail
18,5 x 11,5 x 9 cm
Elisabetta Benassi
The Dry Salvages
2013
10.000 hand-made bricks, sand and 1 book
Site-specific installation at Italian Pavilion, 55th Biennale di Venezia
Elisabetta Benassi
The Dry Salvages
2013
10.000 hand-made bricks, sand and 1 book
Detail. Site-specific installation at Italian Pavilion, 55th Biennale di Venezia
Elisabetta Benassi
The Dry Salvages
2013
10.000 hand-made bricks, sand and 1 book
Detail. Site-specific installation at Italian Pavilion, 55th Biennale di Venezia
Elisabetta Benassi
Finalmente solo, finalmente tutti
2013
2 morse lamps, 2 tripods, electromagnets, electronic control unit, wood and electrical wires
Dimensions variable
Installation view at Fondazione Merz, Turin, 2013
Elisabetta Benassi
Picasso
2012
Watercolor and pencil on paper
42 x 35 cm
Elisabetta Benassi
The Bullet-Proof Angela Davis
2011
Steel and plexiglass structure, tape recorder, electric wire, watercolour on paper (30 x 29 cm)
240 x 200 x 140 cm
Elisabetta Benassi
The Innocents Abroad
2011
9 automated microfiche readers, microfiches, 9 steel tables, neon lights, electronic control unit, electrical cables, each element 140 × 80 × 80 cm, site-specific dimensions
Installation view at 54th Biennale di Venezia: ILLUMInations, curated by Bice Curiger, Corderie dell’Arsenale, Venice
Elisabetta Benassi
Stalin
2010
Watercolor and pencil on paper
40 x 33 cm
Elisabetta Benassi
Feltrinelli
2010
Watercolor, pencil and marker pen on paper
36,5 x 30,5 cm
Collection Castello di Rivoli, Turin
Elisabetta Benassi
Telegram from Buckminster Fuller to Isamu Noguchi Explaining Einstein’s Theory of Relativity
2009
Hand-knotted wool rug
500 × 618 cm
Installation view at ArtUnlimited, Basel 2009
Elisabetta Benassi
Telegram from Buckminster Fuller to Isamu Noguchi Explaining Einstein’s Theory of Relativity
2009
Hand-knotted wool rug
500 × 618 cm
Installation view at Castello di Rivoli, Turin
Elisabetta Benassi
Alfa Romeo GT Veloce 1975-2007
2007
Automobile with side lights, headlights and main beams on, transformer, electric cables
150 x 160 x 430 cm
Courtesy of Unicredit Group Collection – on long-term loan to MAXXI, Rome
Installation view of Luce di pietra, Palazzo Farnese, Rome
Elisabetta Benassi
459 metri di campo arato
2005
Inkjet print on cotton paper
80 × 113 cm
Elisabetta Benassi
Io non ho mani che mi accarezzino il volto
2004
Videotape DV-CAM PAL colour sound transferred on DVD
1'31''
Elisabetta Benassi
Timecode
2000
Videotape Beta SP, PAL Colour Sound, 3’ 40”
With: Elisabetta Benassi, Davide Leonardi
Camera: Jacqueline Zünd
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2023
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