Mariano Benavente

Curriculum Vitae

 

Mariano Benavente was born in Buenos Aires in 1968, where he currently lives and works.

Between 2002 and 2015 he has participated in several workshops and clinics of artwork analysis, with teachers such as Tulio de Sagastizábal, Leila Tschopp, Augusto Zanela, Silvia Gurfein among others.

He has had solo and group exhibitions:

Solo:

"La inteligencia de las flores", Centro Cultural San Martín, Buenos Aires 2023;

"Equidistancia", Palatina Gallery, Buenos Aires 2022;

"Oh, make me a mask", Casa Bolivar, Buenos Aires, 2021;

"El ramo imposible", Casa Matienzo, Buenos Aires, 2019;

"Walking in Silence," Palatina Gallery, Buenos Aires 2019;

"De Otra Naturaleza," Arturo Ragonese Botanical Garden, INTA, 2013;

"El Grito", Espacio de arte Herminia, 2011.

Group:

"Blend#2", Varela Varelita Bar, Buenos Aires 2022;

"Adorable and fantasized", Estación Guerrero, Buenos Aires, 2022;

"Todo está escondido en la memoria", Pasaje 17 Gallery, 2020;

"Mucha Pintura," Casa Matienzo, 2018;

He has been selected in National Calls, Awards and Salons, such as:

·Salón Provincial de Artes Visuales, Museo Pettorutti (2024)

·UADE Visual Arts Award (2023) – Awarded with a Jury Mention

·Centro Cultural San Martín (2022)

·Felix Amador Painting Award (2022),

·UADE Visual Arts Award (2021),

·Central Bank of Argentina Painting Award (2020),

·XXII Klemm Visual Arts Award (2018);

·XI National Painting Award Bancor 2018;

·Fernán Félix de Amador Painting Salon, Museum of Fine Arts of Luján,

Province of Buenos Aires (2010-2009);

·National Visual Arts Salon, Painting Category,

Palais de Glace, Buenos Aires (2009-2008);

·3rd National Painting Contest UADE, Metropolitan Museum, Buenos Aires (2008-2008) Metropolitan Museum, Buenos Aires (2008)

 

In 2018 he received a Grant for Creation awarded by the National Fund for the Arts through the Municipal Funds for the Arts Program.

Since 2017 he has been part of the audiovisual project TBF - The Black Future Project, together with Amadeo Azar and Nicolás Vazquez. It is a group that presents live music and video performances. The musical pieces are born through improvisation and electronic sessions that connect images with incidental music from different documentaries, visual collages and retro-futuristic videos. They took part in live performances at: National Museum Of Fine Arts (2022), Ruth Benzacar Gallery (2018), Museum of the Book and Language (2018),HACHE Galería (2018), FASE9, Casa Nacional del Bicentenario(2017), ATOM Bar (2017), andFACA Feria de Arte Contemporaneo Argentino (2017), among many others.