His inspirations are born from the things of life, but Benaglia seems to overlook the dramatic existential situation of man by immediately facing the solution.
Romantic and sentimental, it transforms places into atmospheres by modifying and building new perspectives with captivating proportions and instinctive, recognizable, seductive depths. Manipulated, kneaded and layered colors: unique. An added value that corroborates his imaginative philosophies with greater pictorial wisdom.
Painter, draftsman, engraver, lithographer, set designer, sculptor.
From painting to sculpture, in the case of Benaglia, the step is incredibly short. Its correspondence in the two arts is so evident that it leaves no doubt about the coincidence in the same author.
His sculptures are essential figures that faithfully reflect the sketches he uses for the paintings. Singular plays of light seem to enrich the forms of a natural movement, always and in any case underlined. Bronze acquires a visual quality closely linked to his canvases from which each character seems to have fled to manifest his three-dimensionality and nothing more, since he extraordinarily maintains the same playful lightness, the same plastic sensation and the same philosophy he had before to get out of its two-dimensionality.
Francesco Zero