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Giovanna Benzi

Giovanna Benzi was born in Milan, she lives and works in Cesena since the early 90s. She graduates of the Brera Academy of Fine Arts and has taught art education in secondary schools. For the Studio ‘Alchimia’, she collaborated in the organization of design exhibitions in Bologna ‘Stanza da Manuale’, 1979, ‘Zona Alchimia’, 1983; in Milan ‘Salone del mobile’, ‘Bauhaus Collection’, 1979, ‘Oggetti senza tempo’, 1983; at the Venice Biennial Architecture section ‘L’oggetto banale’, 1979, and ‘Stanza banale’, 1980 curated by Alessandro Mendini, with Franco Raggi, Daniela Puppa, Paola Navone; in Linz Austria ‘Forum design’, 1981; again in Venice she collaborated in 1982 in ‘Records e Paradiso’, exhibition with the architect Andrea Branzi. She also has important experiences in graphics and design fields. She worked in Milan with the architects Alessandro Mendini, Michele De Lucchi, Ettore Sottsass in the ‘Alchimia’ studio and has several editorial collaborations. She worked on the anatomical and scientific drawing for publishing firms: Fratelli Fabbri Editori, Edifarm, Corriere della Sera and Domenica del Corriere, Salute, Medico e Paziente, Medico e Bambino and at the present Quaderni ACP.

She resumed painting after 10 years, watercolors and oils participating to many important group exhibitions in Bagno di Romagna, Castelgandolfo, Cervia, Cesena, Cuggiono, Forlì, Velletri, Oporto (Portogallo), Castrocaro Terme, Terra del Sole, Cagliari. She held solo exhibitions in art galleries, public and private institutions and museums in in Cagliari, Cesenatico, Imola, Milan, Ischia, Naples, Spoleto, Vibo Valentia. Many writings and tidings on her activity are published in art magazines. Texts written by Ermenegildo Frioni, Francesco Gallo Mazzeo, Graziella Melania Geraci, Pasquale Lettieri, Marcello Palminteri, Orlando Piraccini, Gabriele Simongini.