GIOVANNI DE BENEDETTO | PREMATURE

GIOVANNI DE BENEDETTO | PREMATURE

Giovanni De Benedetto (b.1989) is a klecksography fine art artist.
During the last thirteen years, De Benedetto invented a specific technique employing action painting, digital photography, and post-production, for which he coined the term Augmented Klecksography Paintings (AKPs).

PREMATURE is a multimedia project that includes all the Augmented Klecksography Paintings, pushing the boundaries of the creative possibility of inkblot art, where the aesthetic power of the artist’s original paintings is enhanced through the mean of digital photography.
The union between klecksography and digital photography creates an outcome that immortalizes the freshness of each original painting and enhances its details, making the digital file of the artwork the definitive piece of art, ready to be wide-printed or minted in the Blockchain.

The genesis of a PREMATURE artwork resides in the silent dialogue established between the artist and the paint, which is shaped under the artist’s fingers, following the path of the matter until the point it can reveal itself before him.
The object of this revelation is the form that constitutes the work of art, depicting creatures never thought nor designed, figures of anthropomorphic beings coming from the subconscious and loaded with such an inherent visual power that they take on a life of their own in front of a viewer’s sight.

De Benedetto’s investigation, which is focused on the revelation rather than the creation, pushes the boundaries of a known-by-few technique as klecksography to obtain a peculiar and a brand new aesthetic based on the imperfection of symmetry and on obsessive research on highlighting the details.

De Benedetto, with his Augmented Klecksography Paintings, wants to point the focus on the discovery of the subconscious through the creative process, where the artist is not in direct control of the formation of the piece. Freeing the chance and the instinct to collaborate, the artist witnesses the materialization of the infinite possibility of the matter in shapes that deal with the subconscious, allowing interpretation.

Giovanni obtained several recognitions in fine art photography, and his PREMATURE artworks have been exhibited in major cities worldwide, from Berlin to New York, Los Angeles, Miami Beach, Paris, and Hangzhou.
In 2022 De Benedetto won the Decentral Art Pavilion contest in Venice, earning the 71st spot in the exhibition, and he has been invited to join Artpoint, a French consultancy agency that creates bespoke digital art installations for companies and high-end real estate.

After the latest exhibition in New York City curated by SeeMe, he has been chosen by Artsy.net curatorial team to be included in the category “Emerging Photographers to Watch.”
In September, Giovanni will exhibit with Art Innovation Gallery in two maxi LEDs at Time Square in New York City during The Armory Show.