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Benna Gaean Maris Visual artist

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Benna Gaean Maris also known as Benna G. Maris or Benna.

“Either eclecticism or boredom” - Interdisciplinary arts about everything.

Benna lives and does things between two or more places, simultaneaously.

 

 

Selected biennials

 

Triennale della Fotografia Italiana, 2017 - Venice, Italy

 

The Wrong Biennale - Prosthetics Pavilion + Homeostasis Lab, 2017 - Internet

 

4ª Biennale del Libro d'Artista, 2017 - Naples, Italy

 

VideoFest2K16 - Bienal Internacional de Video y Cine Contemporáneo, 2016 - Mexicali / Tijuana, Mexico

 

7th Artist’s Book Triennial Vilnius, 2015 - Vercelli, Italy / Vilnius, Lithuania

 

03 Videoakt - International Videoart Biennial, 2014 - Barcelona, Spain

 

3éme Biennale Méditerranéenne d’Art Contemporain d'Oran, 2014 - Oran, Algeria

 

2ª Biennale Internazionale del Libro d'Artista, 2013 - Treviso, Italy

 

VIII International Festival of Experimental Art, 2010 - Saint Petersburg - Russia

 

 

Selected solo exhibitions

 

From Garbage to Infinity, 2018 - 16:9 Gallery - Southfield, U.S.A.

 

artists and the caveman, 2017 - Performance - Genoa, Italy

 

nothing happened, 2012 - Centro Sant'Agostino - Cortona, Italy

 

nothing happened, 2011 - Ca' Annelise - Venice, Italy

 

Critical mEss, 2011 - Torre Saracena - Zoagli, Italy

 

 

Selected recent group exhibitions

 

The Pleasure in Books, 2018 - Maschio Angioino - Naples, Italy

 

15th Francesco Pasinetti Video Award, 2018 - Liceo M. Guggenheim - Venice, Italy

 

DIN A4 - Everything Art, 2018 - BBK OSNABRÜCK - Osnabrück, Germany

 

Der Gesang verschwindender Arten, 2018 - Group Global 3000 - Berlin, Germany

 

IN-SONORA 10, 2018 - Casa Encendida Cultural Center - Madrid, Spain

 

BAU 14, 2017 - Sehsaal - Wien, Austria

 

Contemporary Visions - VIDEOART IN LOOP, 2017 - Worldwide

 

nodoCCS - III Festival Video Arte, 2017 - Cerquone Project Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela

 

Bideodromo - International Experimental Film and Video, 2017 - Sarean, BilbaoArte - Bilbao, Spain

 

VITA TUA, VITA MEA, 2017 - CON-TEMPORARY7 - Venice, Italy

 

Künstlerbücher für Alles, 2017 - Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst - Bremen, Germany

 

#PostFuture - 13th Athens Digital Arts Festival, 2017 - 23 Mitropoleos - Athens, Greece

 

Pomezia Light Festival, 2017 - Various sites - Pomezia, Italy

 

Sofia Underground - International Performance Art, 2017 - National Palace of Culture - Sofia, Bulgaria

 

Intermediaciones - III muestra de videoarte & video experimental, 2016 - La Pascasia - Medellín, Colombia

 

ART-MAP - Re-Cognition, 2016 - Ponte de Lima, Portugal

 

Urban Research 2016 - 48 Stunden Neukölln- Berlin, Germany

 

PERCORSI, 2016 - Torre dei Doganieri - Sestri Levante, Italy

 

SNO 119, 2015 - Sydney Non Objective Centre - Sydney, Australia

 

FUTURE AND BEHIND, 2015 - CON-TEMPORARY 5 - Venice, Italy

 

F.I.V.E. - Feelings International Videoart Experience, 2014 - World tour

 

AJATUS, 2014 - Unique gallery - Turin, Italy

 

 

Prizes and awards

 

Videographics Prize - 15th Francesco Pasinetti Video Prize - Venice, Italy, 2018

 

1st Prize + Spazio Performativo Prize + 1st Prize Giovani- S.T.A.R. Bene Contest - Teramo, Italy, 2017

 

Jury commendation - 75 Second Film Awards Amy Johnson Festival - Hull, England, 2016

 

Finalist - XL Premio di Arte Contemporanea Basilio Cascella, Ortona, Italy, 2016

 

Finalist - Veramiglia Contest, Portomaggiore, Italy, 2014

 

Jury mention - 2nd B.I.L.A. Biennale Internazionale del Libro d'Artista, Treviso, Italy, 2013

 

Winner - 6th Golem Videofestival, Turin, Italy, 2006

 


 

the blur

2016

Single-channel video, HD 1:1, colour, silent, 1’ (looping)

 

Synopsis: Deblurring Mark Zuckerberg's grey shirt.

 

Description: A disquieting portrait from the pataphysical future deblurring Mark Zuckerberg's grey shirt. I made this video before the actual charges on Zuckerberg about the resale of Facebook user's data. I believe that the future of Zuckerberg will be in jail, this is why I painted the stripes on his shirt.

 

Critical commentary by Laura Senesi, Art Historian:

«The Blur is a conceptual work of video art. The clip depicts one of the emblematic figures of 21st century: the creator of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg. The billionaire inventor of the most famous among Social Networks, he is represented here in a disquieting guise: a picture of full and eccentric colours, a face with cerulean eyes, staring and focused toward a unspecified point at great distance; the bust of the famous personage is standing frontally and is facing toward the viewers. The colours of the shirt and the background behind him vary in a cycle of two times that constantly return back to start, before to restart again. The picture of the entrepreneur, that generally should be comforting in order to sell a product, seems repelling. Stripped of the typically commercial guise, Zuckerberg is projected here in a context almost provocative. The picture is anything but captivating, on the contrary it is forcing away, defies and impress the viewer getting him involved emotionally almost negatively. Moreover, it induces us to consider with a critical mind the famous people to which images we are passively subjected - and who better than the founder of Facebook would represent the surplus of pictures invading our life? - like Andy Warhol did taking as subjects for his artworks renown personages, famous indeed.

 

If Duchamp with "Fountain" was highlighting how the value of art would be subordinated to pre-established canons, here the author overturns the problem, inviting the observer to search the quality of the artwork in the consumerist world. The Duchampian and irreverent procedure in the artwork is found in its characteristic of being pataphysical, the pseudo-science meant as a parody of the official and academical mind. The video has to be read in terms purely sensory, not rational, as the theory of pataphysics suggests a kind of approach transcending the reasoning, in favour of the immediate impact. The meaning, even supposing its existence, is subjective, this is to say that it changes depending on the concerning, thus we could say that not one, but multiple messages do really exist.»

 

 

Exhibition history:

 

2018 Jury award - Videographics Prize - 15th Francesco Pasinetti VideoPrize

 

2018 15th Francesco Pasinetti VideoPrize - Liceo Guggenheim - Venice, Italy

 

2018 Problem Is Never Small- Sociëteit Sexyland - Amsterdam, Netherlands

 

2017 III FESTIVAL VIDEO ARTE nodoCCS - Cerquone Projects - Caracas, Venezuela

 

2017 Pomezia Light Festival - Pomezia, Italy

 

2017 #PostFuture - 13th Athens Digital Arts Festival- 23 Mitropoleos str - Athens, Greece

 

2016 Out Of The Blue- Greylight Projects - Hoensbroek, Netherlands

 

 

Website: http://aaaabeegimnnnrs.net/



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