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Contemporary paintings and artwork by Benini
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Benini’s exhibition career started with a one-man show in Milan, Italy in 1961. During his late teens and early 20’s, Benini painted landscapes and still lifes in a traditional style. By 1965, his painting evolved into large-scale, monochromatic renderings of the human figure. From the mid-1970’s, he alternated large-scale representations of the rose and dream-like paintings with strong symbolist content. During the mid-1980’s, Benini’s work took a sharp turn toward geometry and the mathematical sciences. At present, he is continuing his explorations in this field. In 2003, Benini also began his Courting Kaos Series, with a different application that combines blending backgrounds and selected imagery, and drops of acrylics in highly controlled patterns, that is now evolving into large-scale pieces 10 and 12 feet tall.
In 1999, Benini and his wife Lorraine purchased 140 acres in the Texas Hill Country that have been turned into The Benini Galleries and Sculpture Ranch which includes the residence, guesthouse and a 14000 sq. ft. Studios Building with offices, showroom, studios and fine arts library. In the surrounding hilly, Mediterranean-like landscape, national and international sculptors are placing large-scale contemporary works.
disciplined technique, requiring up to 20 layers of acrylic paint applied by brush, gives a glow to pigments and transforms familiar geometric and organic shapes into lyrical canvases that, stretched over flat aluminum, hanging inches from the wall, complete the feeling of dimension.
