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Loro (Them), 2008

Elisabetta Benassi

In comodato presso

Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea

Descrizione

watercolours on canvas

Dimensioni

15.7inch x 11.8inch

Numero elementi

Categoria

dipinto

Credits

L'artista

Is it important to remember everything that happens? In what way does news become History? What happens if one distances an image from the facts that it should describe? These are only some of the many questions that emerge when one looks at Them (Loro), created in 2010 by Elisabetta Benassi. The work, a group of watercolors on canvas, is part of a broader research project that emerged from investigations the artist carried out beginning in 2008. That year, while she found herself in the United States during the presidential elections and at the height of the economic crisis, Benassi began to assiduously visit libraries and archives for the major newspapers, focusing her research on images published by the press over the course of the twentieth century. [...]

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