Sabe Foundation for Art, common objects become still life in works by Benvenuto, Cattaneo and Modorati

The Sabe Foundation for Art presents from Jan. 20 to April 7, 2024 the exhibition In suspensus by Carlo Benvenuto, Enrico Cattaneo and Elena Modorati, curated by Angela Madesani, under the patronage of the Municipality of Ravenna and the Department of Cultural Heritage of the University of Bologna - Ravenna Campus and realized in collaboration with the Ravenna Academy of Fine Arts. The space thus opens up to photography, exploring its relations with plastic research, landscape and space, physical and mental.

The exhibition alludes to the sense of suspension from time, space and everyday relationships that transform the common objects that are the protagonists of the works on display. The exhibition project presents the works of three artists, from two different generations, who express themselves with different languages: Elena Modorati (1969), Carlo Benvenuto (1966) and Enrico Cattaneo (1933-2019). The theme is still life in the proper meaning of the term.

In the exhibition, the concept of sculpture from an installation point of view is placed in relation with photographic works. Elena Modorati’s work activates a shift in the relationship between pre-existing, found object and produced element. A relationship that generates a perceptual short-circuit, whereby it becomes impossible to determine which of the two poles establishes the greater level of ambiguity and allusiveness. For Carlo Benvenuto, photography is an index, a trace of the real proposed from time to time on a 1:1 scale, and his glass sculptures representing objects of reality should also be read in this sense. Enrico Cattaneo’s works from the Morandiane series, worked by the artist at the printing stage with a compositional and poetic reference to Giorgio Morandi, in which the suspension of time is evident, are on display.

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Image: Carlo Benvenuto, Untitled (2016; c-print, 68 x 68 cm).

Sabe Foundation for Art, common objects become still life in works by Benvenuto, Cattaneo and Modorati

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