Luis Benedit (1937)

Aliases: Luis Fernando Benedit

Professions: Painter; Sculptor; Installation Artist

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  Luis Fernando Benedit (Argentinian, b. 1937)

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  LUIS FERNANDO BENEDIT (B. 1937)

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  Luis Fernando Benedit (Argentinian B. 1937)

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  Luis Fernando Benedit (Argentinian B. 1937)

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(b Buenos Aires, 12 July 1937). Argentine sculptor, painter and architect. As an artist he was self-taught. Making reference to biological and chemical experiments to construct metaphors of the relationships between science and art, he began in 1968 to analyse the role of the individual in society through his first Animal Habitat , consisting of glass objects with water and fish, and Microzoos of ants, lizards, fish, tortoises, vegetables and honeycombs. At the Venice Biennale in 1970 he showed The Biotron (see Glusberg, p. 142), a cage for bees containing an artificial meadowland with 24 flowers that supplied a sugary solution; the bees could choose between the artificial device and the gardens that surrounded the Biennale. In later works he designed mazes for rats, ants, cockroaches and fish, as well as contraptions displaying the behaviour of plants (e.g. Fitotron , 1972, see Glusberg, p. 141), not to encourage scientific observation but to suggest to the spectator possible applications of the experiment.

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