Artist Piera Benetti shows us how the lines the separate the subjects of representation – subject, background, paper – evolve and change their relationship and meaning. Colour is her expressive media of choice, and in her Strati (lit. ‘layers’), Benetti brings to a radical outcome the neutrality of the colour white, the aestheticization of artmaking, the supposed unitarity of the subject. Her language acknowledges the plurality of the ways we look at reality. The unusual juxtaposition of colours, her choice of waxed canvas, the cutout profiles on curved, broken lines show a kind dissonance that is typical of her art: a different kind of showing beauty, forging harmony, to subvert extant relationships, even within a single painting.
