Lectures, Italy, Siena, 15 October 2013
An artist is someone who can (re)invent things and get masterful results through unwavering commitment and wide-ranging curiosity, and a constant dialogue with the works and ideas of other artists, writers, thinkers from the past and present. In talking about his work at “StARTers”, visual artist Jacopo Benci will deal with its being informed by, and in a dialogue with, other works by Luigi Ghirri, Giulio Paolini, Andrei Tarkovsky, Michelangelo Antonioni, Georges Perec, Michel de Certeau.
The talk will illustrate how an artist's work relates with a broader cultural context, which in Benci's case is both Italian and international.
Jacopo Benci is a visual artist who lives and works in Rome. His work encompasses photography, video & film, installation, performance, and has been shown in Italy, Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, The Netherlands, Russia, Thailand, USA.
His most recent solo exhibitions to date are “Il mistero del parco – The mystery of the park”, Ecos Gallery, Rome; “A tour of the monuments of Magliana”, 26cc, Rome, 2012. Recent group shows include “Viaggio in Italia – Italienische Reise”, Werkschauhalle, Spinnerei, Leipzig, and AtelierFrankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 2012-13; “Doc.arte”, Cineclub Detour, Rome; “Il Mercato degli Spiriti”, L’Aquila, 2013.
In 2007 a monograph on his work, “Jacopo Benci. Faraway and luminous”, was published by The British School at Rome, London.
Since 2003, Benci has lectured and published on the work of Michelangelo Antonioni (“Michelangelo’s Rome: towards an iconology of L’Eclisse”, in R. Wrigley (ed), “Cinematic Rome”, Leicester: Troubador, 2008; “Identification of a city: Antonioni and Rome, 1940-1962”, in J.D. Rhodes, L. Rascaroli (eds), “Antonioni: Centenary Essays”, London: BFI/Palgrave, 2011) and Pier Paolo Pasolini (“‘An extraordinary proliferation of layers’: Pasolini’s Rome(s)”, in D. Caldwell, L. Caldwell (eds), “Rome: Continuing Encounters between Past and Present”, Farnham (UK): Ashgate, 2011) and is currently involved in a 2-year British Academy funded research project on Luigi Ghirri.
6 PM - FREE ENTRANCE
The talk will illustrate how an artist's work relates with a broader cultural context, which in Benci's case is both Italian and international.
Jacopo Benci is a visual artist who lives and works in Rome. His work encompasses photography, video & film, installation, performance, and has been shown in Italy, Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, The Netherlands, Russia, Thailand, USA.
His most recent solo exhibitions to date are “Il mistero del parco – The mystery of the park”, Ecos Gallery, Rome; “A tour of the monuments of Magliana”, 26cc, Rome, 2012. Recent group shows include “Viaggio in Italia – Italienische Reise”, Werkschauhalle, Spinnerei, Leipzig, and AtelierFrankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 2012-13; “Doc.arte”, Cineclub Detour, Rome; “Il Mercato degli Spiriti”, L’Aquila, 2013.
In 2007 a monograph on his work, “Jacopo Benci. Faraway and luminous”, was published by The British School at Rome, London.
Since 2003, Benci has lectured and published on the work of Michelangelo Antonioni (“Michelangelo’s Rome: towards an iconology of L’Eclisse”, in R. Wrigley (ed), “Cinematic Rome”, Leicester: Troubador, 2008; “Identification of a city: Antonioni and Rome, 1940-1962”, in J.D. Rhodes, L. Rascaroli (eds), “Antonioni: Centenary Essays”, London: BFI/Palgrave, 2011) and Pier Paolo Pasolini (“‘An extraordinary proliferation of layers’: Pasolini’s Rome(s)”, in D. Caldwell, L. Caldwell (eds), “Rome: Continuing Encounters between Past and Present”, Farnham (UK): Ashgate, 2011) and is currently involved in a 2-year British Academy funded research project on Luigi Ghirri.
6 PM - FREE ENTRANCE
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