Lara Favaretto

Lara Favaretto
Lara Favaretto
Born	1973 (age 50–51)
Known for	Sculpture, installation, painting

Lara Favaretto (born 1973 in Treviso) is an Italian artist.^[1]^[2] Favaretto lives and works in Turin, Italy.^[3]

Favaretto is known for her paintings, installations and research based sculptural works.^[4] She has staged interventions that she calls "momentary monuments", drawing attention to the futility and impermanence of monuments and libraries .^[5]

Exhibitions

*Momentary Monument (Wall)*, a public artwork by Lara Favaretto surrounding Trento, Italy's *Monument to Dante* statue.

Favaretto presented the installation work plotone in the Biennale of Sydney in 2008.^[6]

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.^[7]

In 2012, MoMA PS1 presented a 15-year survey of her work titled Just knocked out.^[2] Favaretto participated in the 53rd Venice Biennale,^[8] the 58th Venice Biennale^[9] and the dOCUMENTA13 in the same year.^[10]

In 2017 she presented The Stone at Skulptur Projekte Münster^[9] 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.^[11]

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.^[12] 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.^[13]

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.,^[14]^[15] she won the 40th GNMH AWARD.