Manfredi beninati biography sample

Italian artist

Manfredi Beninati is an Italian artist born in Palermo (Sicily) in 1970. A contemporary figurative painter, his oeuvre also covers installations, drawings, sculpture, collage and film.

Biography

After dropping out of both law and film school and collaborating with well-known Italian directors, Manfredi Beninati began working as an artist.

He spent some time in Spain and England and, in 2002, when he came back to Italy, he began to make sculptures and figurative paintings that drew directly on real or imaginary childhood memories.

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Beninati first started studying law and then switched to film courses in the early 1990s while working as an assistant director in the Italian film industry.

In 1994 he moved to London where he started working as a visual artist. In 2005 he was selected as one of four artists to represent his country at the 51 Venice Biennale^[1] where he received the audience award for the Italian pavilion.

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