Lara Favaretto

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

Lara Favaretto
Born1973 (age 46–47)
Known forSculpture, installation, painting
Home townTurin, Italy

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

Exhibitions
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]

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.[10]

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.[11] 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.[12]

Awards

In 2011 she received the Querini Stampalia Prize for Young Italian Artists. In 2005 she was awarded the Venice Biennale Young Italian Art Prize.[13][14]

Collections

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[15] and the Collezione Maramotti.[9]

References
  1. Phaidon Editors (2019). Great women artists. Phaidon Press. p. 135. ISBN 0714878774.
  2. ""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 (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. ArtFacts. "Lara Favaretto | Artist". ArtFacts. Retrieved 2019-12-11.
  10. "Lara Favaretto Sculpture in Münster Raises $31,400 for People Facing Deportation – ARTnews.com". www.artnews.com. Retrieved 2019-12-11.
  11. "In Miami for Art Basel? Eight shows to see outside the fair".
  12. "Art Lost and Found". 2019-02-19.
  13. "Survey comprising works by Lara Favaretto from the past 15 years on view at Sharjah Art Foundation".
  14. "People - Sharjah Art Foundation".
  15. "Good Luck. Lara Favaretto". 2012-01-06.
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