Titled “Abstraction of the Origins”, the exhibition features twenty-five works by Andrea Benetti. Curated by Toti Carpentieri, the show will be inaugurated at 6:30 PM at the Carlo V Castle in Lecce and presents a cycle of recent works that reveal an ancestral lexicon intrinsically connected—at the same time—to the visual languages of the 20th-century European abstract avant-gardes.
Hyperactive within the Italian artistic landscape, Benetti arrives in Lecce also presenting a video work, created in close collaboration with Audrey Coianiz, Frank Nemola, and Saul Saguatti. By blending signs and sounds, Benetti seeks to celebrate those forms of communication that “our ancestors discovered for the first time.” In doing so, he establishes an interaction with the paintings on display, engaging in a reinterpreted revival of the graphic symbols of our forebears.