Enrico Benaglia (Roma, 1938) - Untitled

Enrico Benaglia (Rome, May 28, 1938)

Beautiful engraving by Enrico Benaglia, known for his poetic settings, enchanted forests, and figures suspended between fairy tale and memory

It is characterized by a dreamlike atmosphere with a spotted zoomorphic figure (reminiscent of a small fantastical horse), a large stylized tree whose crown features a standing eagle within a scroll in the manner of a playing card

Well-pressed etching, with very wide margins

Dating: 1960s-1970s

Signed in the lower right in pencil: Benaglia

Lower left in pencil: Print proof

Plate dimensions at the plate: 25.8 x 21.0 cm

Visible sheet dimensions: about 45.0 x 33.4 cm

Frame dimensions: about 63.5 x 54 cm

With frame, glass and taped passe-partout

In excellent condition (see images)

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Enrico Benaglia (Rome, May 28, 1938) is an Italian painter.

The beginnings and the Sixties
Since adolescence, Benaglia frequented Villa Medici, home of the French Academy in Rome, as well as the studios of some protagonists of Twentieth Century art, in particular those of the Roman School: Pericle Fazzini, Giovanni Omiccioli, Franco Gentilini and Luigi Montanarini. Around the end of the sixties, encouraged by the esteem and friendship of painters and art critics such as Vittorio Guzzi, Domenico Purificato and Giovanni Stradone, Benaglia exhibited at the Rome gallery “La Vetrata” a series of paintings that showed the precocious originality of his aesthetic and poetic research. It was Roberto Lombardi, owner of the gallery, who first sensed the cultural potential of the Roman painter.[1]

The Seventies
Outside the major conceptual art hubs of the sixties and early seventies, thanks to the authenticity of his painting, Benaglia came into contact with a cultural world of poets and actors, such as Luciano Luisi, Renato Civello, Claudio Rendina, Mario Lunetta, Walter Maestosi, Biagio Proietti, Nanni Fabbri, Riccardo Cucciolla, Gabriella Sobrino, Umberto Serafini, Laura Gianoli and Guido Ruggiero, who contributed to the development and further definition of his poetic world. Concurrently, an initial intense exhibition activity began, taking place both in Italy (including Rome and Villa San Giovanni) and abroad (including Osaka, Vienna, Caracas, the countries of the former Yugoslavia and Sweden). In the same period the artist approached lithography and printmaking, which would later become an integral part of his artistic activity. From the mid-seventies onward, he produced a series of graphic suites accompanied by critical texts by Carlo Giacomozzi, Marcello Venturoli, Franco Simongini, Donatella Serafini, Guido Giuffrè, Mario Pomilio, Ferruccio Ulivi, Georges de Canino, Philippe Soupault and Rossana Zampetti. His scenography activity began in 1978 with Lucio Piccolo’s comedy entitled