Riccardo Benassi
"The interest of the Italian artist Riccardo Benassi lies in the
interaction between sound and objects.
The objects, taken
from daily life, acquire an identity of their own through sound.
The work of Riccardo Benassi often gets him to establish
interactive performances with the audience. In this way, the
interactive operation is based on a collective conditioning.
The persons, the objects, the artist himself, result to be the
protagonists of one and the same action, collectively searching
for an alternative mode of conceptualising their mutual relations.
When the objects themselves become protagonists, they are
manipulated and forced to retell their own identity through the
execution of a normal gesture.
This is, for instance, the case
in the concert for ventilators: these normal household appliances
are invited by the artist to play a keyboard, and to transform the
noise they make into a simple but important musical note."
(Courtesy Galerie Davide Gallo, Berlin)
Riccardo Benassi (1982, Cremona) lives between Cremona and Bologna.
"I Don't Like Machines, But Machines Like Me", 2005.
Mixed Media Installation, 121 x 121 cm.
GROUP EXIBITIONS
2005
Preview Art Fair Berlin, Galerie Davide Gallo.
"Non ci sei solo tu", Galleria Comunale Castel S.Pietro (bo), curated by Fabiola Naldi.
"In Corso d'Opera", Fabbrica del Vapore, Milano curated by gruppo Curator9.
AUDIO/VISUAL PERFORMANCES
with the group "Daily Desiderio", which is co-founded by the artist:
_11/05 at galleria "Neon campobase" in Bologna inside the "split/screen" revue curated by Elvira Vannini and Francesca Pagliuca.
_19/05 at "Raum", Xing, inside the Phonorama revue, Bologna.
_04/06 at Dipartimento Musica e Spettacolo, DAMS, Manifattura delle Arti, Università di Bologna.
_12/06 during the final gala of the Dams Prize, Teatro Manzoni, Bologna.
"Decline Decadenza Tour", 2005.
performance.
SOLO EXIBITIONS
2005
Villa Serena, Bologna curated by Francesca Pagliuca.
"Tracce di un seminario" Corso Superiore di Arte Visiva 2004 Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Careof/Via Farini, Milano, curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio and Roberto Pinto.
"Decline Decadenza Tour. Visita all'Ex-zona archeologica Ex-Feltrinelli", Crac (Centro di Ricerca per l'Arte Contemporanea) Cremona, curated by Francesca Pagliuca.
2004
"Piece for 20 Hands", performance during the "Hackmeeting" (Genova) and during "Homework Festival", electronic music festival (Bologna) [included into the DVD catalogue IXEM (Italian Experimental Electronic Music)].
"Premio Dams", curated by Renato Barilli, at Villa delle Rose, Gam di Bologna (already selected in 2002 and 2003).
"Surely we will be confused", curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio and Roberto Pinto, Como, area Ex-Ticosa, Fondazione Ratti.
2003
video/cd-rom "madreterra_padrecemento" during the first edition of the Pescara Elettronic Artist Meeting (Peam01).
Artist's Web Site: www.365loops.com
Courtesy 
, Berlin.