Andrea Benetti

ANDREA BENETTI'S BIOGRAPHY
Andrea Benetti (Bologna, 1964) is an Italian visual artist whose practice encompasses painting, drawing, photography, installations, and video art. In 2006, he conceived the Manifesto of Neo-Cave Art, presented at the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009, a theoretical and artistic project that reinterprets the origins of human creative expression through a contemporary perspective.

Inspired by prehistoric art and the earliest forms of symbolic representation, his research develops a visual language that connects ancestral memory with contemporary sensibility. Through stylized anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figures, archetypal signs, geometric elements, and the use of natural pigments, Benetti creates an ideal bridge between the birth of art and its present-day expressions.

Throughout his career, he has collaborated with numerous Italian and international universities, including Johns Hopkins University and the Universities of Bologna, Ferrara, Bari, Bergamo, Lecce, Messina, and Venice. His artistic practice and theoretical research have been the subject of academic studies, publications, and university projects.

His works are held in significant public and private collections, including those of the United Na...

State Art School - Bologna
Academy of Fine Arts - Bologna

2021
Timeless shapes (pittura) / Bologna · Legislative Assembly of the Emilia Romagna Region - Bologna, Italia
2017
Volti contro la violenza (fotografia) / Palazzo D'Accursio - Bologna, Italia
2017
Pater Luminum (pittura, istallazioni) / Museo Civico di Gallipoli - Gallipoli (LE), Italia
2017
inMovimento - Arte fiera (pittura) / Ex Ospedale dei Bastardini - Bologna, Italia
2016
Muri diversi - (murales) / Ponte della Mascarella - Bologna, Italia
2016
Omaggio alla pittura Rupestre (pittura, disegni, video) / Museo del Castello di San Giorgio - La Spezia, Italia
2016
preHISTORIA CONTEMPORANEA (pittura, disegni, installazioni) / Università di Ferrara – Palazzo Turchi di Bagno - Ferrara, Italia
2016
Signum Crucis - Arte fiera (pittura, installazioni) / Ex Ospedale dei Bastardini - Bologna, Italia
2015
Astrattismo delle origini (pittura, installazione video) / Castello Carlo V - Lecce, Italia
2015
VR60768 – anthropomorphic figure (pittura, disegni, installazione video) / Camera dei Deputati - Roma, Italia
2014
Il colore della luce – opere in bianco (pittura, installazione video) / Ex Ospedale dei Bastardini - Bologna, Italia
2014
Dalla roccia alla tela – Il travertino nella pittura Neorupestre (pittura, disegni) / Palazzo dei Capitani de...