Media Articles
Benini Tries to Expand People’s Notion of Reality
by Catherine Enns
Florida Times-Union, Jacksonville, Florida
September 6, 1985
Giant Thornless Black Roses Mingle With Dancers, Beasts In Benini’s Surreal Paintings
Giant Thornless Black Roses Mingle With Dancers, Beasts In Benini’s Surreal Paintings
by Ronald Williamson
The Daily Journal
March 10, 1984
A Visit to Museo Benini in Marble Falls
Texas Hill Country may be known for its German cultural heritage, but what about the Italian guy with his own art museum in Marble Falls? Known simply as Benini, the 79-year-old painter and sculptor established MuseoBenini, a 6,500-square-foot structure housing his life’s work, in 2015. It’s a single-artist “museum” where the artist is not only alive, but actively producing — Benini prefers to paint all through the night…
Surface Treatment: The Cosmos Within
Rich color has poured out of the soul of Benini and onto this gallery of canvases. These powerful visual manifestations link the artist to his inspirational sources, while push-pulling the eyes of the viewer into each abstract work. New Masterworks is currently…
Fredericksburg Art Guide 2022
Growing up, sitting on a hard wooden bench in the dark theater, a small Italian boy watched black-and-white Westerns, fascinated with the adventures of John Wayne and Alan Ladd. The faraway, open spaces and desertic landscapes contrasted with his village of Castello d'Argile in Emilia Romagna, with its narrow streets, espresso cafes and the 18th- century stone palazzo communale where his father, the town's tax official, was granted lodging for the family.
From Ruby City to MONA: How Some Private Museums are Changing the Way We View Art
(See paragraph 14) …In the Texas Hill County, Italian-born artist Benini and his wife Lorraine run Museo Benini, a 35-acre estate where they live, work, and receive visitors wanting to see his life’s work. Just shy of 79, Benini — who chooses to be known only by his last…
Benini’s Controlled Kaos
The thing about the paintings of Benini, the Italian-born artist who helped build Hot Springs’ art scene and now lives in Texas, is that they sometimes require you to befriend the circular and the shaped. That doesn’t come…
Benini : A Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose
Evening Herald , Sanford, FL.
Sam Francis
Sunday, August 2nd, 1981
Benini is Alive and Well and Living in Evinston
Editor- Richardson Campbell
1978 ~ Freeport News