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NEO-CAVE ART
Andrea Benetti is the founder of Neo-Cave Art, a contemporary artistic movement that draws conceptual and visual inspiration from prehistoric cave painting. His work fuses archaic symbolism and primal signs with modern techniques and materials, creating a bridge between the origins of human expression and the language of contemporary art.
Benetti’s artistic style is characterized by essential forms, organic textures, and a deeply symbolic visual vocabulary. He often integrates natural pigments, abstract figures, and textured surfaces to evoke ancestral memory and spiritual resonance. His research is not only aesthetic but also anthropological and philosophical, proposing a reflection on the continuity between past and present in the human need for creative expression.
Andrea Benetti is the founder of Neo-Cave Art, a contemporary artistic movement that draws conceptual and visual inspiration from prehistoric cave painting. His work fuses archaic symbolism and primal signs with modern techniques and materials, creating a bridge between the origins of human expression and the language of contemporary art.
Benetti’s artistic style is characterized by essential forms, organic textures, and a deeply symbolic visual vocabulary. He often integrates natural pigments, abstract figures, and textured surfaces to evoke ancestral memory and spiritual resonance. His research is not only aesthetic but also anthropological and philosophical, proposing a reflection on the continuity between past and present in the human need for creative expression.
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BIOGRAPHY
Andrea Benetti, born in Bologna in 1964, is a multifaceted visual artist whose work encompasses a wide range of expressive languages, including painting, photography, drawing, installations, and video art. His artistic production is distinguished by an original reinterpretation of the profound connection between contemporary art and its ancestral origins, rooted in Prehistory. In 2006, he conceived the Manifesto of Neo-Cave Art, which was officially presented in 2009 at the 53rd Venice Biennale, at Ca’ Foscari University. In this manifesto, Benetti proposes a theoretical and visual reflection that calls for an artistic “rebirth,” ideally starting anew from one of the earliest forms of art—cave painting - reimagined through a contemporary lens with an innovative and original symbolic language.
His works, marked by the evocative use of natural pigments, spices, oxides, and stylized anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figures alongside abstract geometries, form a conceptual bridge between the origins of art and its present-day expressions. In this process, Benetti recovers and carries forward the symbolic language often present in prehistoric art, reinterpreting and reinventing it to bring it into the contemporary world—a world that not only thrives on new forms of symbolism but also transforms them into digital icons, now omnipresent in everyday life, as they are embedded in the very objects and devices governed by digital logic.
This approach has enabled Benetti to develop a distinctive visual poetics, capable of engaging with the collective memory of humanity while simultaneously responding to the aesthetic and conceptual demands of third-millennium art.
Andrea Benetti has exhibited in prestigious international venues, and his works have become part of major institutional and museum collections, including those of the United Nations (New York), the Vatican, the Quirinal Palace, and the Italian Chamber of Deputies. His work has been the subject of academic research and scholarly studies conducted by several Italian universities, such as those of Bologna, Ferrara, Bergamo, and Salento (Lecce), and he has collaborated with other distinguished academic institutions, including the universities of Bari, Roma Tre, Messina, Venice, and the renowned Johns Hopkins University.
The recognition of his artistic stature is further confirmed by the inclusion of his biography in authoritative encyclopedias such as Treccani, De Agostini, and WikiArt, as well as its presence on Wikipedia in forty-five languages—a testament to his firmly established international resonance. In 2020, he was awarded the “Nettuno d’Oro” Prize by the City of Bologna, in tribute to the significance and originality of his contribution to contemporary culture and to his prominent role in today’s artistic landscape.
MUSEUMS AND COLLECTIONS
· United Nations Art Collection ∙ New York, U.S.A.
· Vatican Art Collection ∙ Vatican, Italy
· Virginia Commonwealth University ∙ Richmond, U.S.A.
· MACIA ∙ Italian Contemporary Art Museum in America ∙ San Jose, Costa Rica
· Argentine Ministry of Justice and Human Rights ∙ Buenos Aires, Argentina
· Rinaldi-Paladino Art Museum Foundation ∙ Lugano, Switzerland
· Copelouzos Family Art Museum Collection ∙ Athens, Greece
· Italian Embassy in China ∙ Beijing, China
· Italian Embassy in New Zealand ∙ Wellington, New Zealand
· Quirinale Art Collection ∙ Italian Presidency of the Republic ∙ Roma, Italy
· Montecitorio Palace ∙ Italian Parliament ∙ Chamber Of Deputies ∙ Roma, Italy
· Mambo ∙ Museum of Modern Art Bologna ∙ Bologna, Italy
· Museion ∙ Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Bolzano ∙ Bolzano, Italy
· CAMeC ∙ Center of Modern and Contemporary Art ∙ La Spezia, Italy
· Osvaldo Licini Contemporary Art Museum ∙ Ascoli Piceno, Italy
· University of Ferrara Art Collection ∙ Ferrara, Italy
· University of Bari Art Collection ∙ Bari, Italy
· Giacomo Casanova Foundation Art Collection ∙ Venice, Italy
· MuMi ∙ Michetti Museum ∙ Francavilla al Mare, Italy
· U.N.E.S.C.O. Art Collection ∙ Bologna, Italy
· Municipality of Lecce Art Collection ∙ Lecce, Italy
· Amedeo Modigliani Museum ∙ Follonica, Italy
· ARTinGENIO Museum ∙ Pisa, Italy
· Silvestro Lega Museum ∙ Modigliana, Italy
· Speleological Museum "Franco Anelli" ∙ Grotte di Castellana, Italy
· Contemporary Art Museum ∙ Logudoro Meilogu Foundation ∙ Banari, Italy
Andrea Benetti, born in Bologna in 1964, is a multifaceted visual artist whose work encompasses a wide range of expressive languages, including painting, photography, drawing, installations, and video art. His artistic production is distinguished by an original reinterpretation of the profound connection between contemporary art and its ancestral origins, rooted in Prehistory. In 2006, he conceived the Manifesto of Neo-Cave Art, which was officially presented in 2009 at the 53rd Venice Biennale, at Ca’ Foscari University. In this manifesto, Benetti proposes a theoretical and visual reflection that calls for an artistic “rebirth,” ideally starting anew from one of the earliest forms of art—cave painting - reimagined through a contemporary lens with an innovative and original symbolic language.
His works, marked by the evocative use of natural pigments, spices, oxides, and stylized anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figures alongside abstract geometries, form a conceptual bridge between the origins of art and its present-day expressions. In this process, Benetti recovers and carries forward the symbolic language often present in prehistoric art, reinterpreting and reinventing it to bring it into the contemporary world—a world that not only thrives on new forms of symbolism but also transforms them into digital icons, now omnipresent in everyday life, as they are embedded in the very objects and devices governed by digital logic.
This approach has enabled Benetti to develop a distinctive visual poetics, capable of engaging with the collective memory of humanity while simultaneously responding to the aesthetic and conceptual demands of third-millennium art.
Andrea Benetti has exhibited in prestigious international venues, and his works have become part of major institutional and museum collections, including those of the United Nations (New York), the Vatican, the Quirinal Palace, and the Italian Chamber of Deputies. His work has been the subject of academic research and scholarly studies conducted by several Italian universities, such as those of Bologna, Ferrara, Bergamo, and Salento (Lecce), and he has collaborated with other distinguished academic institutions, including the universities of Bari, Roma Tre, Messina, Venice, and the renowned Johns Hopkins University.
The recognition of his artistic stature is further confirmed by the inclusion of his biography in authoritative encyclopedias such as Treccani, De Agostini, and WikiArt, as well as its presence on Wikipedia in forty-five languages—a testament to his firmly established international resonance. In 2020, he was awarded the “Nettuno d’Oro” Prize by the City of Bologna, in tribute to the significance and originality of his contribution to contemporary culture and to his prominent role in today’s artistic landscape.
MUSEUMS AND COLLECTIONS
· United Nations Art Collection ∙ New York, U.S.A.
· Vatican Art Collection ∙ Vatican, Italy
· Virginia Commonwealth University ∙ Richmond, U.S.A.
· MACIA ∙ Italian Contemporary Art Museum in America ∙ San Jose, Costa Rica
· Argentine Ministry of Justice and Human Rights ∙ Buenos Aires, Argentina
· Rinaldi-Paladino Art Museum Foundation ∙ Lugano, Switzerland
· Copelouzos Family Art Museum Collection ∙ Athens, Greece
· Italian Embassy in China ∙ Beijing, China
· Italian Embassy in New Zealand ∙ Wellington, New Zealand
· Quirinale Art Collection ∙ Italian Presidency of the Republic ∙ Roma, Italy
· Montecitorio Palace ∙ Italian Parliament ∙ Chamber Of Deputies ∙ Roma, Italy
· Mambo ∙ Museum of Modern Art Bologna ∙ Bologna, Italy
· Museion ∙ Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Bolzano ∙ Bolzano, Italy
· CAMeC ∙ Center of Modern and Contemporary Art ∙ La Spezia, Italy
· Osvaldo Licini Contemporary Art Museum ∙ Ascoli Piceno, Italy
· University of Ferrara Art Collection ∙ Ferrara, Italy
· University of Bari Art Collection ∙ Bari, Italy
· Giacomo Casanova Foundation Art Collection ∙ Venice, Italy
· MuMi ∙ Michetti Museum ∙ Francavilla al Mare, Italy
· U.N.E.S.C.O. Art Collection ∙ Bologna, Italy
· Municipality of Lecce Art Collection ∙ Lecce, Italy
· Amedeo Modigliani Museum ∙ Follonica, Italy
· ARTinGENIO Museum ∙ Pisa, Italy
· Silvestro Lega Museum ∙ Modigliana, Italy
· Speleological Museum "Franco Anelli" ∙ Grotte di Castellana, Italy
· Contemporary Art Museum ∙ Logudoro Meilogu Foundation ∙ Banari, Italy
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