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