Simone Benedetto exhibits in our gallery since 2024.
Simone Benedetto was born in 1985 in Turin. He graduated from the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts in Sculpture and Plastic Arts. One of the most versatile sculptors, he experiments with multiple materials, combining plastic techniques with a realistic and visionary language.
After graduating from the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts in Sculpture and Plastic Arts, experiences practiced abroad were fundamental to his artistic and personal training; in fact, the artist undertook and achieved important study courses in the academies of Valencia and Lisbon, continuing in the sculptural sphere both his personal exhibition activities and his work.
Simone Benedetto's works represent an imagery that, starting from the “already said” of contemporary art, constructs an individual and original hierarchical scheme of ideas. The archetypes are apparently simple: play, childhood, war and social upheaval.
Over everything, however, lies the mantle of the macro-topic of technology; that is, how the latter has altered previously established semiotics and interpersonal relationships, particularly from the birth of social networks onward.
Benedetto can be considered one of the most versatile and multifaceted contemporary sculptors: his experimentation with materials (semi-precious stones, bronze, concrete, resins and silicones), his combination of plastic techniques and his mixing of realistic and visionary language allow him to deal with thorny and complex social issues, showing the contradictory nature of everyday life with an intimate and original critical gaze.
Simone Benedetto's metamorphic and fairy-tale-like creatures seem to be taken from a fairy tale, hybrids belonging to another secret and unknown dimension. They could be inhabitants that populate undisturbed the dense bush vegetation or the protagonists of a dystopian near future, possible descendants of the human species, returned to the wild following some environmental catastrophe.
Playful and wild spirits, the Animal Souls seem to reinterpret the contemporary need for a return to Nature, in a renewed communion, and the celebration of that atavistic instinct and purity proper to Childhood, an age free from all the constraints and conditioning that society imposes.
A glimmer of hope inspires a reading rooted in collective myth and the perfect primal adherence between natural state, social condition and cultural formation. The estrangement from the original state of nature is an ancient topic, running through the history of thought and culture from time immemorial. Indeed, J.J. Rousseau, in “Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality among Men,” regards nature, conceived as the original state of savage man, as benign, and life as happy if in direct contact with it, while “our evils are for the most part our own doing, and we would have avoided almost all of them by maintaining the simple, uniform and solitary mode of life which was prescribed to us by nature.”
FAIRS
2023 BOOMING Galleria Ferrero
2022 ART MIAMI LiquidArtSystem
2022 THE OTHERS AD Gallery
2021 ARTE IN NUVOLA AD Gallery
2019 THE OTHERS Galleria Paludetto
2017 ARTEFIERA VERONA Galleria Paludetto
SOLO SHOWS
2024 DISTOPIC, Galleria Gare 82, Brescia
2023 ANIMAL SOUL, Domus Lascaris, Torino
2022 SOLO SHOW SIMONE BENEDETTO Koart Gallery
2021 THINK BIG Artiglieria contemporanea. Cavallerizza Reale Torino
2021 ANIMAL SOUL White lands art Gallery Torino
2020 SOLOSHOW SIMONE BENEDETTO Artiglieria contemporanea. Cavallerizza Reale Torino
2020 SIMONE BENEDETTO SOLOSHOW Galleria Gare 82 , Brescia
2019 TEDDYBEER Palazzo Saluzzo Paesana , Torino
2017 OUT OF CONTROL Galleria Davide Paludetto, Torino
2016 SIMONE BENEDETTO, Galleria Davide Paludetto, Torino
2016 SIMONE BENEDETTO, Galleria Marconi, Cupra Marittima
2015 SIMONE BENEDETTO, Galleria Franz Paludetto, Torino
2014 IDENTITY FOR SALE, palazzo civico comune di Torino
2014 BLACK MIRROR OF SOCIETY, Paratissima, Torino
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS
2024 20 15×15/20×20, Punto sull’Arte, Varese
2022 SOS HUMANITY, Orta San Giulio, Novara
2022 START SALUZZO widespread exhibition Saluzzo
2022 SOS UMANITY Orta lake widespread exhibition
2022 SUMMER EXIBITION Gallerie Ramfjord oslo
2022 COLLECTIVE EXIBITION Basile contemporary Roma
2021 FLANEURS E NAVIGANTI Galleria Gare 82 , Brescia
2021 SENSE OF WONDERS Ko Art Gallery Catania
2021 COLLECTIVE EXIBITION Galleria Ferrero Ivrea
2019 COLLECTIVE EXIBITION Gallerie Montmartre, Paris
2019 CHILDREN AND GAME Gallerie Geraldine Zberro, Paris
2017 MONFORTE CONTEMPORANEA Monforte
2017 COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS Galleria Davide Paludetto Torino
2017 MAUTO Museo MAUTO Torino
2017 SENZA FRONTIERE Parco d'arte Quarelli Roccaverano
2016 TRANSITORY PEOPLE Parco d'arte Quarelli, Roccaverano
2016 GAP Torino esposizioni Galleria Franz Paludetto
2016 MISERERE Chiesa di san Vittore, Vercelli
2015 COFFI FESTIVAL, Berlino
2015 SCULTURE NEL PARCO Venezia isola delle rose fondazione Mazzoleni
2015 TRASMUTAZIONI, chiesa di san Vittore, Vercelli,
2015 USELESS ARMI Torino esposizioni
2015 GAP Torino esposizioni Galleria Franz Paludetto
2014 sCOLPITI DALLA CRISI camera di commercio per l'artigianato e l'industria, Torino
2014 sCOLPITI DALLA CRISI Castello di Rivara, Rivara (Torino),
2014 GAP Torino esposizioni Galleria Franz Paludetto
2013 PARATISSIMA Torino esposizioni
AWARDS
2021 PREMIO ARTE selezionato per il premio arte (premio ancora in corso )
2019 BIENNALE DI GENOVA Premio scultura
2016 PREMIO ORA vincitore del premio ORA
2013 PARATISSIMA Torino, vincitore primo premio
2013 ZOOMAGINARIO
Zoom, Cumiana (Torino), bioparco Zoom di Torino, vincitore del primo premio come miglior artista della nona edizione di Paratissima.