Lara Favaretto (born 1973 in

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artist. Favaretto lives and works in

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. Favaretto is known for her

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, installations and research based sculptural works. She has staged interventions that she calls "momentary monuments", drawing attention to the futility and impermanence of monuments and

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Exhibitions

Favaretto presented the installation work ''plotone'' in the

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in 2008. In 2009, with the support of the Galleria Civica foundation, she presented ''Momentary Monument (Wall)'', composed of a

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of 4000 sacs of

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around the Monument to Dante in

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. In 2012,

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presented a 15-year

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of her work titled ''Just knocked out''. Favaretto participated in the 53rd Venice Biennale, the 58th Venice Biennale and the dOCUMENTA13 in the same

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. In 2017 she presented ''The Stone'' at

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The work, a large

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sculpture, included a slot for accepted donations for those facing deportation. During the course of the exhibition €26,600 was raised. Her 2019 solo exhibition at the Bass Museum, ''Momentary Monument—The Library'', was composed of 2000 books that were recovered from the

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dump and altered by the artist. The same year, she presented ''Coppie simplici/Simple Couples'', an outdoor installation of large used car-wash brushes at the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara.

Awards

In 2011 she received the Querini Stampalia Prize for Young Italian Artists. In 2005 she was awarded the Venice Biennale Young Italian Art Prize. , she won the 40th GNMH AWARD.

Collections

Her work is in the collections of the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, the Metropolitan Art Society (MAS), the Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo in Rome, Italy and the Collezione Maramotti.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Favaretto, Lara 1973 births Living people 20th-century Italian women artists 21st-century Italian women artists People from Treviso Brera Academy alumni Italian contemporary artists