As if we don’t have enough….

Title: Mimetica, 2016

Artist: Elisabetta Benassi

Nationality: Italian

Gallery: Magazzino

Type: Sculpture
Materials Used: Artificial Palm Tree, steel, resin, natural fiber, polypropylene

Fair: Art Basel 2017 [Miami Beach Convention Center]

310.0 × 290.0 × 610.0 Size (cm)

122.0 × 114.2 × 240.2 Size (in)

"Mimetica" is a large-scale sculpture by Italian contemporary artist Elizabetta Benassi depicting an artificial palm tree. Magazzino explains it is like one of those used to camouflage mobile phone masts within urban and natural landscapes. This camouflage uses natural elements to give a feeling of a real tree, like the fiber for the trunk, while being contrasty mixed with obvious fake plant like materials for the leaves and branches, to give ambiguous feel.