Enrico Benaglia - Landscape

Landscape has always been a central theme in artistic research, both as a setting, as a backdrop, and as a subject itself. The naturalistic depiction of landscape has been a major aspiration for artists of every era. Each historical period has offered its own interpretation of landscape, contributing to the evolution of its depiction: first with an exploration of space, through Brunelleschi's perspective in the early Renaissance; then with atmospheric rendering in the 16th century; and finally with the depiction of every single vibration of light on objects in Impressionism. Even in his landscapes most closely aligned with sensory reality, artist Enrico Benaglia always reveals a certain surrealist streak.

Enrico Benaglia's surrealism has highly original and recognizable characteristics. The artist has created a fantastical world that certainly resembles a dream, yet possesses more markedly magical and fairy-tale-like traits. The scenes orchestrated by Enrico Benaglia focus more on hermetic and mysterious symbolism than on alienation, and for this reason, they always present a notable complexity, both in the choice of subjects and the construction of the settings. In the case of this landscape, however, we find a more minimalist composition with elements closer to tangible reality. A sense of mystery nonetheless persists in the mode of representation, so essential that this work is assimilated to the current of so-called Magic Realism. Formally, as in the finest surrealist tradition, Benaglia also relies decisively on a figurative language, even if his is not strictly hyperrealism, but rather a language reminiscent of the art of illustration, which perfectly suits the magical atmospheres of his works.

Enrico Benaglia was born in 1938 in Rome, where he lives and works. Beginning in the 1980s, Benaglia firmly established himself on the national art scene thanks to his identification of an original and symbolic iconography, linked to the world of fairy tales and mythology. His great success with the public and critics is confirmed by a succession of major institutional exhibitions in Italy and abroad, starting in the 1990s. Some of his most famous pictorial cycles have been exhibited in atypical and evocative venues such as Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris and John F. Kennedy Airport in New York, as well as in prestigious venues such as the Italian Cultural Institutes in Strasbourg, Madrid, and Vienna, and the Italian Embassy in Tallinn.

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