Jacopo Benassi

 
Jacopo Benassi (born 1970, lives and works in La Spezia, Italy) is one of the most prolific and talented Italian photographers. His work has the camera at its centre but he touches on languages such as performance, video, curating, and sound. He has collaborated for many years with the director Paolo Sorrentino, and has developped many projects with Federico Pepe. He has worked with some of the most legendary international musicians of the international punk and post-punk scene. During his career he has worked, among the others, for Rolling Stone, Purple Magazine, GQ, Vice, Wired, ICON Panorama, Riders, just to name a few.
 
Jacopo Benassi - A Star in the Garden
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
various
Jacopo Benassi brings together in this "private" edition 40 color photographs of the garden of his friends Stella and Pino perched on a ledge between the sea and the sky, in his Liguria land.
Jacopo Benassi - Rozzo (vinyl 45\
2023
Tonini Editore
Live performance of the artists Jacopo Benassi (voice, guitar, dildo and japanese axe), Michele Lombardelli and Luca Scarabelli (guitar and analog devices) at the RetroStudio, Fiorenzuola d'Arda, 11 July 2022. Including a 16-page booklet of photos by Jacopo Benassi.
Jacopo Benassi - Matrice
2022
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Bruno
The catalogue of an exhibition in which painting, photography and sculpture bring about some original strange hybrids: probably Jacopo Benassi's most ambitious and intimate project.
Jacopo Benassi - Autobiography
2022
English edition
Tonini Editore
Autobiography by Jacopo Benassi is a series of self portraits taken during the night, during the lenght of a dream, described by the artist in the first page.
Jacopo Benassi - Once more (vinyl LP)
2021
Xing
currently out of stock
A total musical and visual performance.
Jacopo Benassi - FAGS
2021
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
sold out
A photo book by Jacopo Benassi that brings together images in which the artist portrays and documents his own intimacy over a 25-year period, from the day he announced his homosexuality: a human journey comprising meetings that have left an indelible sign on his personal story as an artist. 
Jacopo Benassi - Coco 7 - Stillleben (box set)
2020
no text
Le Dictateur Press - Artists' books & editions / catalogues
A limited-edition box set documenting the seventh and penultimate episode of COCO, the project that brings together video art and music by artist and designer Federico Pepe and artist and photographer Jacopo Benassi.
Jacopo Benassi - Bologna Portraits
2019
English edition
Damiani - Photography
sold out
One of the most charming and least well-known Italian cities portrayed through the faces of the people who live there today.
Jacopo Benassi - Paris is in Asia
2017
English edition
Bruno
Collection of black & white photographs celebrating Italian actress and filmmaker Asia Argento in Paris. The volume is risograph-printed and enclosed in a silk-screened slipcase. With a quite striking foreword by no-wave priestess Lydia Lunch.
Jacopo Benassi - Morte a Venezia
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Bruno
sold out
The nocturnal strolls of the Italian photographer in the empty streets of Venice
Jacopo Benassi - Slippers (box set)
2014
no text
Le Dictateur Press - Artists' books & editions / catalogues
sold out
Jacopo Benassi's collection of eroticized slippers (artist's edition—10 booklets in a handmade wood box set).
Jacopo Benassi - The Ecology of Image
2008
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Le Dictateur Press - Artists' books & editions / catalogues
sold out
An ambitious (and heavyweight) series of 500 images of ugly and beautiful objects and lives by Italian artist and photographer Jacopo Benassi.
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