THE VILLAGE VOICE
“BEST IN SHOW: MANFREDI BENINATI”
By R.C. Baker
Look through a glass door to a living room where a sandcastle has colonized a tabletop—this complex of crenellated walls, turrets, and curving staircases is so large that it continues onto a plywood sheet cantilevered over a chair. The ghostly frames of missing pictures mark the striped wallpaper, though a bucolic lake scene, an oceanscape, and some old-fashioned photographic portraits have been left hanging. The floor is strewn with sand and discarded cigarettes, wine bottles, coffee cups, and take-out food containers, as if some adult has tried to re-create the memory of a wondrous day at the beach in the midst of this curtained, melancholy room.
R.C. Baker, The Village Voice, New York, 2007
Copyright © 2007 R.C. Baker / The Village Voice
