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last sanctuary of imperfections Installation

Paula Benvegnu

Installation, Mixed Media on Other

Size: 118.1 W x 39.4 H x 118.1 D in

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About The Artwork

ACID STAINED CONCRETE CARPET This project was commissioned by Smart car who asked Tristan Cochrane and Paula Benvegnu to answer visually a question set by photographer Todd Selby. Todd asked "how will the home of the future provide sanctuary?" and we answered: We see a world moving ever more towards a high standard of functionality, perfection, cleanliness, hi technology and convenience. Our home will be our private haven where we can build our own versions of ‘perfection’, by building with what might currently be seen as the ‘imperfections’. We will take sanctuary and delight in the less functional, tarnished and irrational and we will personalise our homes with our own individual perceptions of beauty. We chose to work in concrete as it is the building block and fundamental icon of all large cities around the world. Each tile was separately stained with acid and we built a tiled carpet with entirely unique characteristics. The acid staining process is an excellent medium to express the deterioration, tarnishing, oxidization, destruction and the natural processes we are fighting so hard to eradicate from our modern daily lives. But in our vision of the future when everything is required to be ‘perfect’, only in our home will these ‘stains’ be viewed as a rare and pleasant beauty. The home will be the last sanctuary of imperfections. full answer and pictures: http://www.smart-urban-stage.com/blog/future-of-the-city/new-ways-of-sanctuary/ [

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Installation:Mixed Media on Other

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:118.1 W x 39.4 H x 118.1 D in

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Buenos Aires, Argentina 1981 With a degree in Advertising and Social Communication from the Universidad del Salvador in Buenos Aires, Argentina, I have worked as an Advertising Art Director at various advertising agencies continuously from 2004 to the end of 2009. During this time, I developed advertising campaigns for Leo Burnett Argentina and was honored with various local and international awards. My interest in the return to analogical systems as a form of expression led me to study film, writing, photography and art direction, becoming a multidisciplinary professional trying to transmit a message, concept or story through any type of format. In my spare time, I am dedicated to photography, writing, making short films and other projects as a freelancer. I won in 2010 a scholarship for the Master of European Design Labs in the IED Madrid and attended to workshops with prestigious european designers as Sigga Heimis, Doshi Levien, Julia Lohmann & Gero Grundman, Pedrita Studio, Luis Urculo and Gala Fernandez. In 2011 I was a staff member in the summer workshops in the domaine of Boisbuchet, run by the Vitra Design Museum and the centre George Pompidou. I had lived in Barcelona for a year and a half where I worked for VICE magazine and opened a design/art studio in November with partner Tristan Cochrane., we exhibited and sold our projects in Milan, London, Berlin, Madrid, Barcelona and Lisbon. At the moment I´m living in London after a short term in Wales, where I was focused in screen printing process, showcasing my work in Bristol, Leeds, Cardiff and London. I was also a guest lecturer and tutor in Advertising degree in the Swansea Metropolitan, University of Wales Trinity St David.

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