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Lara Favaretto

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Lara Favaretto
Born1973 (age 50–51)
Treviso, Veneto, Italy
Known forSculpture, installation, painting

Lara Favaretto (born 1973 in Treviso) is an Italian artist.[1][2] Favaretto lives and works in Turin, Italy.[3]

Favaretto is known for her paintings, installations and research based sculptural works.[4] She has staged interventions that she calls "momentary monuments", drawing attention to the futility and impermanence of monuments and libraries .[5]

Exhibitions

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Momentary Monument (Wall), a public artwork by Lara Favaretto surrounding Trento, Italy's Monument to Dante statue.

Favaretto presented the installation work plotone in the Biennale of Sydney in 2008.[6]

In 2009, with the support of the Galleria Civica foundation, she presented Momentary Monument (Wall), composed of a wall of 4000 sacs of sand around the Monument to Dante in Trento, Italy.[7]

In 2012, MoMA PS1 presented a 15-year survey of her work titled Just knocked out.[2] Favaretto participated in the 53rd Venice Biennale,[8] the 58th Venice Biennale[9] and the dOCUMENTA13 in the same year.[10]

In 2017 she presented The Stone at Skulptur Projekte Münster[9] The work, a large stone sculpture, included a slot for accepted donations for those facing deportation. During the course of the exhibition €26,600 was raised.[11]

Her 2019 solo exhibition at the Bass Museum, Momentary Monument—The Library, was composed of 2000 books that were recovered from the Miami dump and altered by the artist.[12] The same year, she presented Coppie simplici/Simple Couples, an outdoor installation of large used car-wash brushes at the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara.[13]

Awards

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In 2011 she received the Querini Stampalia Prize for Young Italian Artists. In 2005 she was awarded the Venice Biennale Young Italian Art Prize.,[14][15] she won the 40th GNMH AWARD.

Collections

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Her work is in the collections of the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León,[9] the Metropolitan Art Society (MAS),[9] the Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo in Rome, Italy[16] and the Collezione Maramotti.[9]

References

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  1. ^ Great Women Artists. Phaidon Press. 2019. p. 135. ISBN 0714878774.
  2. ^ a b ""Lara Favaretto: Just Knocked Out" at MoMA PS1, New York". Mousse Magazine (in Italian). 2012-05-10. Retrieved 2019-12-11.
  3. ^ "Lara Favaretto: The End of Motion". MAP Magazine. 2008-11-01. Retrieved 2019-12-11.
  4. ^ "Here Are 18 Horizon-Expanding Museum Shows to See During Art Basel Miami Beach 2019". 2019-12-03.
  5. ^ Morton, Tom. "Letting Go". Frieze. No. 126. ISSN 0962-0672. Retrieved 2019-12-11.
  6. ^ "Lara favaretto at the biennale of sydney 2008". 2008-08-20.
  7. ^ "Arte e sabbia: l'Installazione attorno al Monumento di Dante a Trento". 2019-08-19.
  8. ^ "Lara Favaretto MAXXI / Rome |". Flash Art. 2015-09-16. Retrieved 2019-12-11.
  9. ^ a b c d e ArtFacts. "Lara Favaretto | Artist". ArtFacts. Retrieved 2019-12-11.
  10. ^ "Detailed CV of her Gallery" (PDF). Franconero.com.
  11. ^ "Lara Favaretto Sculpture in Münster Raises $31,400 for People Facing Deportation – ARTnews.com". www.artnews.com. Retrieved 2019-12-11.
  12. ^ "In Miami for Art Basel? Eight shows to see outside the fair".
  13. ^ "Art Lost and Found". 2019-02-19.
  14. ^ "Survey comprising works by Lara Favaretto from the past 15 years on view at Sharjah Art Foundation".
  15. ^ "People - Sharjah Art Foundation".
  16. ^ "Good Luck. Lara Favaretto". 2012-01-06.
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