Raffaello Benedetti Brà

Born in Verona, where he graduated in Art, he currently lives and works in Milan.
He has been working for ten years as art director for some of the most important international agencies, such as Ted Bates, Spade and Archer, Compton Dupuy, Saatchi & Saatchi. In this period he realized several advertising, some of which selected and published in the Annuals of the Art Directors Club.
Driven by his passion for photography he started a studio in Milan.
Important creative agencies asked him to realize the photographic content of brand campaigns such as Alessi, Barilla, Bulgari, Damiani, Campari, Conte of Florence, Fratelli Branca, J&B, Lacoste, Montblanc, Panerai, and Rolex.
He is specialized in Still life photography, and his artistic background influences his work aiming at reaching a perfect aesthetics. Throughout the years, Raffaello Benedetti Brà transferred such research of beauty from the professional plan to the artistic plan.

Raffaello Benedetti Brà
“What is essential, is invisible to the eyes”

by Vittorio Schieroni and Elena Amodeo

Raffaello Benedetti Brà’s art is a universe to discover with the concentration of a philosopher, the curiosity of an astronomer, and the yearning for discovery of an alchemist. You will see classical sculptures, old-fashioned toys, armillary spheres, tools, and other different objects, arranged in unforeseen juxtapositions in order to create scenes that remind of a theatre stage, as if the artist wanted to narrate a story standing on it. They are works characterized by a strong poetic power and a refined composition.
Silent and still figures stand out in front of an indistinct – almost monochromatic – background, where connections to real space and time are precluded; light sources illuminate them like spotlights, enhancing their shapes and contour. It is a mental dimension where humans are not invited, in order to let thoughts, memory, and dreams flow. These are actual inner landscapes that play with visible and invisible things, light and shadow, reality and ideas, object and symbol.
Raffaello Brà’s works are almost-pictorial compositions for the use of colors; they are shots curated in every detail, as nothing...

He has exhibited his work in galleries in Milan, Rome, Verona, Ascona, Paris.