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BENINI
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.
To date, he has had 150 one-man exhibitions, primarily in universities,
public institutions and museums.
In 1999, Benini and his wife Lorraine purchased
140 acres in the Texas Hill Country that have been turned into The Benini Foundation 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.
In his studio, at night, Benini creates paintings that appear
three-dimensional. His highly
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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.
These paintings, related to Italian Baroque and
Rococo art, as well as the simple elegance of Islamic pattern art, have
evolved into space age imagery.
Through the years, Benini has also produced a number of assemblages, that he
calls divertimenti. Varying in size from a few inches to 15 feet,
these divertimenti are built with different materials: wood, steel, stone and
more recently, granite.
This facility is open by appointment to art
lovers and student tours, please call first.
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