“During the last few years here in Texas I have been working on the Faces of God series. The God I was portraying had nothing to do with religious icons or established beliefs - identities man has created from the beginning of man time. It was more a quest for an abstract essence: universal in spirit. I used color, my lifetime ally,  with all its powers and varieties."  
Benini

“In this latest body of work, the artist has combined his preoccupations with science and metaphysics to create viscerally evocative pieces that reflect a transcendental quality achieved by only a handful of abstract masters. Unlike the often flat pieces created by the gesturalists of previous generations, Benini’s paintings combine a refined control with a command of chaos that yields an intriguing dimensionality as the background emerges into the drip-flattened foreground. The ovoid centers reveal a virtual embryonic personification, while the richly combined colors create a gestalt that, in combination with the compositions; invoke the cataclysmic creation of the Universe itself. It is no coincidence that this groundbreaking series of paintings by a mature master is entitled, "The Face of God."
Joseph Bravo, Former Executive Director,

International Museum of Arts and Sciences, McAllen, Texas 2014