On which fields of knowledge are you focused? Visual art in general, secular mysticism. What is the object of your research? Imperfection, traces of memory, the visual environment as a mean of intuition of other than oneself. Could you identify some constants in your work? The use of traces of memory left over time on objects, the assembly or the juxtaposition of pieces or images

19.06_26.08.1945, book, published by Danilo Montanari Editore, Ravenna 2014 At the end of the Second World War, the artist’s grandfather, Primo Benedetti, comes home after two years of imprisonment as an Italian Military Internee in the German labor camps. He carries a small journal upon which he takes note of all the cities passed along his journey. About seventy years later, Andrea Botto retraces this itinerary within an artist’s book, published in

Arraicas (Roots), photographic work, in progress Nowadays a kind of 'normality' is disappearing, the normality of a peasant, archaic, ancestral world, for which our twentieth-century ‘poet of meat' Pier Paolo Pasolini fought, anyway it’s still surviving, despite the violent tides of the unsettling present time. The photographic project Arraicas aims to tell human abilities shown within this context. Chosen land: Sardinia’s rugged and wild backcountry, depicted through women faces and bodies, whi

Warburgs AUTO CINEMA, project proposal During his residency in the German Academy Villa Massimo, Erik Göngrich wandered around the city taking picures and drawings now collected in the publication Atlas of Sculptural Situations, published by eeclectic, and worked on the Pigneto area, where urban planning coexist and sometimes blends in with spontaneous architecture, seamlessly from the 50s on, focussing on a small two-storeys concrete structure in via del Pigneto. The house frame

LVNATICA (Research project. July 2020) LVNATICA is a short draft of a book that I started to write few months ago. Its object of research is the interpretation of the “V” gesture in paintings realized by illustrious artist of Manerism in the territories of La Serenissima in the 16th century.The iconographic apparatus stems form and then builds upon the text by Mauro Zanchi, Sotto il Segno di Diana. Tiziano, Palma il Vecchio e i mi