Davide Benati. Encantadas

After the exhibitions at the Civic Museums (1992) and Palazzo Magnani (2003), Davide Benati returns to exhibit in his hometown, presenting his entire artistic career, through historical and unpublished works.

The exhibition opens up with the production of the early eighties, which gave Benati notoriety: huge watercolours on rice paper of refined sensitivity, ethereal images that unite East and West, dream and reality.

The exhibition also presents a selection of works created between the nineties and the beginning of the new millennium: big canvases with which the artist also presented himself at the Venice Biennial. The tour, which is made up of about fifty works from public and private collections and from the artist's studio, ends up with a series of large unpublished triptychs, which testify to the continuity of Benati's inspiration and his extraordinary use of light and colour. The exhibition is completed by paper compositions and travel notebooks: private notes that turn into studies for the large paintings on display.