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Biography
Lara Favaretto (born 1973 in Treviso) is an Italian artist. Favaretto lives and works in Turin, Italy.
Favaretto is known for her paintings, installations and sculptural works. She has staged interventions that she calls "momentary monuments", drawing attention to the futility and impermanence of monuments.
Exhibitions
Favaretto presented the installation work plotone in the Biennale of Sydney in 2008.
In 2009, with the support of the Galleria Civica foundation, she presented Momentary Monument (Wall), composed of a wall of 4000 sacs of sand around the Monument to Dante in Trento, Italy.
In 2012, MoMA PS1 presented a 15-year survey of her work titled Just knocked out. Favaretto participated in the 53rd Venice Biennale, the 58th Venice Biennale
In 2017 she presented The Stone at Skulptur Projekte Münster The work, a large stone 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 Miami 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.
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.