Exhibitions, Italy, Bologna, 14 November 2017
KEEP EYES
On November 25, 1960 - the date of the assassination of the three Sisters Mirabal, political activists of the Dominican Republic, killed on the orders of the Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo - has become an important event worldwide, namely the International Day against Violence against Women, sanctioned by a UN resolution in 1999. An important date that many women but also many men celebrate annually not to forget not only the extreme form of death, but many other forms of subtle violence, from physical to psychological ones and discriminating, which are still perpetuated today against women in every part of the world.
Violence against women is a violation of their right to life, security, happiness and freedom. It is a exploitation of a woman's weakness to defend itself as a result of her physical incompetence or her economic dependence on men. For women of some ethnicities, it is still a bitter reminder of the renunciation of an egalitarian world based on freedom, independence and equality. But changing the mindset is not easy, it is not enough for resolutions, laws, or celebratory celebrations: it is necessary to watch, be careful, to keep an eye on an ever wider plague than from non-Western societies today, even in Western societies, among all the social classes and age groups. Girls, teenagers, women, and even the elderly have become victims of ever-weird and violent actions. There are so many international awareness-raising initiatives that are not indifferent to this problem: from the slogan "Do not close your eyes to violence," the first UNDP national campaign against violence in society in Bosnia-Herzegovina, false black eyes "made with the trick offered on Facebook by the Turkish Huni Project to stop violence against women, to many others in all the nations of the world who use their eyes as an emblem of this need for attention and desire to look to the future without fear and hoping for a change.
Andrea Benetti for the occasion of this exhibition used the same symbol, his eyes, to approach an unusual theme for his artistic journey: the scarce and synthetic painting is replaced by realistically documentary photographs that without any digital mediation they are opening up to provide us a split of expressions and feminine situations of all ages and provide us with a panorama of faces, or rather addressed, about the reality of being a woman today. Embarrassing and perhaps even uncomfortable with so many ways of looking at the world, turning to the other by themselves with consistency, pride, and sometimes with a blatant challenge to an increasingly pressing problem that needs to be remedied. Blow up these looks of anonymous women, but not for this least present and conscious of their identity and power, act as silent watchers inviting viewers to keep their eyes open so that they can undo the hateful and frightening tendency of violence on the genre female.
Silvia Grandi
On November 25, 1960 - the date of the assassination of the three Sisters Mirabal, political activists of the Dominican Republic, killed on the orders of the Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo - has become an important event worldwide, namely the International Day against Violence against Women, sanctioned by a UN resolution in 1999. An important date that many women but also many men celebrate annually not to forget not only the extreme form of death, but many other forms of subtle violence, from physical to psychological ones and discriminating, which are still perpetuated today against women in every part of the world.
Violence against women is a violation of their right to life, security, happiness and freedom. It is a exploitation of a woman's weakness to defend itself as a result of her physical incompetence or her economic dependence on men. For women of some ethnicities, it is still a bitter reminder of the renunciation of an egalitarian world based on freedom, independence and equality. But changing the mindset is not easy, it is not enough for resolutions, laws, or celebratory celebrations: it is necessary to watch, be careful, to keep an eye on an ever wider plague than from non-Western societies today, even in Western societies, among all the social classes and age groups. Girls, teenagers, women, and even the elderly have become victims of ever-weird and violent actions. There are so many international awareness-raising initiatives that are not indifferent to this problem: from the slogan "Do not close your eyes to violence," the first UNDP national campaign against violence in society in Bosnia-Herzegovina, false black eyes "made with the trick offered on Facebook by the Turkish Huni Project to stop violence against women, to many others in all the nations of the world who use their eyes as an emblem of this need for attention and desire to look to the future without fear and hoping for a change.
Andrea Benetti for the occasion of this exhibition used the same symbol, his eyes, to approach an unusual theme for his artistic journey: the scarce and synthetic painting is replaced by realistically documentary photographs that without any digital mediation they are opening up to provide us a split of expressions and feminine situations of all ages and provide us with a panorama of faces, or rather addressed, about the reality of being a woman today. Embarrassing and perhaps even uncomfortable with so many ways of looking at the world, turning to the other by themselves with consistency, pride, and sometimes with a blatant challenge to an increasingly pressing problem that needs to be remedied. Blow up these looks of anonymous women, but not for this least present and conscious of their identity and power, act as silent watchers inviting viewers to keep their eyes open so that they can undo the hateful and frightening tendency of violence on the genre female.
Silvia Grandi
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