GIOVANNI DE BENEDETTO

GIOVANNI DE BENEDETTO | PREMATURE

Giovanni De Benedetto is an Italian klecksography artist who combines painting and photography media at once.
His projects have multiple points of view. The observers are an active part of the creative process, where each artwork has been made to shake the spectator from the inside.

Starting from 2012, he took part in several solos and collective exhibitions with his main project PREMATURE, exhibiting in cities like Venice, Paris, Miami Beach, Berlin, and Bangkok.
In 2019, he was selected for the 4-month artist residency program at coGalleries in Berlin, which culminated with his first solo exhibition in the German capital at the gallery located in Berlin-Mitte.

Furthermore, his artwork PREMATURE #77 was chosen by the fair director Cristina Salmastrelli to be exhibited at the prestigious PULSE Art Fair in Miami Beach during the Miami Art Week as part of the ‘Next Generation’ of artists in the contemporary panorama.

In 2020 he started to work together with Matteo Sormani, CEO of Art-Preview, and Ungalleried, where both platforms offer different artworks from the PREMATURE series.

De Benedetto is also featuring in several art magazines including, Inside Art, Dodho Magazine, among others, and he has been selected to be featured on the cover of the third issue of Al-Tiba9 Magazine with 10 pages-article and an interview of him.

I am a klecksography artist who enhances the aesthetic power of his own original paintings through the mean of photography.

The union between these two different media creates an outcome that highlights certain features that they would otherwise hide, making the photography of the artwork the final piece that stands on its own.

My aim is to broaden the people’s points of view, making them embrace multiple perspectives at the same time to establish a temporary emphasis connection among them for feeling more close as human beings on a deep level.

Given all the psychological and social dynamics involved in the viewing of my work, the artworks gain the attention of such professionals who work with the human mind and subconscious, such as psychotherapists and criminologists, as well as art collectors.

– Giovanni De Benedetto

Read the full article on Art Market Magazine Issue #48