This collection of works created to remember, if anything the need arose, that the style of figurative painting, symbolism and, as the author points out the works to follow even abstract art, were conceived by primitive man, in the caves of prehistory, at least in their embryonic stage. Some colored geometric shapes, found in cave paintings, symbols designed and coded by Professor André Leroi Gourhan, are reviewed, transfigured, idealized, dreamed, reinvented in the works of Andrea Benetti, who wants to make a fitting tribute to the true origins of abstract art and those who invented it. This collection of works consists of bas-reliefs with gesso on canvas and then antiqued using natural substances, such as cocoa, turmeric, henna, red sorrel, coffee. Finally, some parts of the works are then painted with oil paints.
Queste opere nascono per ricordare concretamente al mondo dell'arte contemporanea, semmai ve ne fosse bisogno, che gli stilemi pittorici dell'astrattismo, del figurativo, del simbolismo, almeno nella loro fase embrionale, furono concepiti dall'uomo preistorico nelle caverne di buona parte del mondo. Le forme geometriche presenti nelle pitture rupestri, i simboli studiati e codificati da André Leroi Gourhan, sono rivisti, trasfigurati, idealizzati, sognati, inventati nelle opere di Andrea Benetti, per rendere omaggio alle origini dell'astrattismo, grazie alla nuova tecnica, che ha ideato.
“Sinapsi”
“Sentiero Sacro”
“Il crocevia”
“Girandola magica”
“Il mio Universo”
“Il rettile”
