Lara Favaretto

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Lara Favaretto
Born1973 (age 4950)
Known forSculpture, installation, painting

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

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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

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

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

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]

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