Silvio Benedetto

Silvio Benedetto was born in Buenos Aires, on March 21, 1938, from a family of artists of Italian origin. His grandfather Benito Caldarella was a photographer, portraitist; his mother Adela Caldarella was a painter, ceramist and prose actress; his father Juan Valente Benedetto was an actor and journalist in Buenos Aires, where he founded the first association of journalists.

In 1956, at the age of eighteen, he won the 1st Prize at the 2nd Biennial of Pan-American Sacred Art in Buenos Aires. Between 1957 and 1961 he made several solo exhibitions, including the "Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes" (now Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes Timoteo Navarro) of Tucumán.

In 1961 he moved to Italy and made some personal exhibitions in various galleries, including the "Penelope", the "Zanini", the "New Weight" in Rome, the "Compass" in Turin, the "De 'Foscherari" in Bologna and the "Gianferrari" in Milan). He settled permanently in Rome, collaborated with photographer David Racanelli in the foundation and initial management of the Gallery "Due Mondi".Domenico Guzzi, "L'anello mancante"- Figurazione in Italia negli anni '60 e '70 – Collana "contributi alla storia dell'arte" – Laterza – 2003

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During this period, he traveled and worked in Latin America, collaborating in the creation of the mural "La Marcha de la Humanidad""La Marcha de la Humanidad", considerato il più grande murale del mondo, copre tutte le pareti e il soffitto del "Foro Universal" del Polyforum Cultural Siqueiros (un edificio multi-culturale situato nel complesso del World Trade Center di Città del Messico). Si tratta di una volta di 900 metri quadrati di superficie e 2400 metri quadrati completamente arredati con la pittura murale. L'opera mostra l'evoluzione del genere umano dal passato al presente e una visione del futuro. in the World Trade Center complex in Mexico City. During this period, Marta Traba wrote in the catalog of the Gallery of Modern Art of Colombia: "Silvio Benedetto has recently been the scandalous case of Latin American painting, contender of Guayasamín, protester of Siqueiros, winner in Mexico of an abnormal mural". At the Casino de la Selva,Casino de la Selva è stato un vecchio casino a Cuernavaca nel 1959–1961 ricostruito come hotel dall'architetto messicano spagnolo Félix Candela, famoso per le sue straordinarie coperture a guscio di cemento armato, dalla forma di paraboloidi iperbolici. Le pareti erano coperte di murali da alcuni dei più famosi muralisti messicani. in Cuernavaca, in fact he painted a mural, with a rectangular plan of 30 meters, for 50, entitled "Progreso y Violencia", which was destroyed.Nel 2002 l'indignata protesta dello scrittore colombiano Gabriel García Márquez, insieme ad un gruppo di intellettuali, contro la distruzione del complesso architettonico il Casino de la Selva che conservava anche grandi opere murali firmate da Siqueiros, José Clemente Orozco, Dr. Atl, Mario Orozco Rivera, Jorge González Camarena, José Renau, José Reyes Meza, Jorge Flores, Roberto Cueva del Río, Francisco Icaza, Benito Mesegguer, Pena, Ballester, Gonzales. Seventy of his works remain in Cuernavaca and are gathered in a museum named after him (of note in this extensive collection are the "Dialogues": "Great Deposition with Christ by Mantegna", "The Shooting of Goya in the Studio", "The Flood by Paolo Uccello"). While working in Ecuador he also created one of his murals at the university of Guerrero.

Between the mid-1960s and early 1990s, he made numerous engravings and lithographs at the printing house "Il Torcoliere" and "The Felt" in Rome, and exhibited in several European cities. In the fire of the Palace Hotel in Mondello in 1973 was destroyed his painting "Ratto di Santa Teresa – dialogo con Bernini", on the same theme will remain only a folder of engravings with a preface by Leonardo Sciascia. It introduces the manifesto "Art as action in the urban context" to Palermo,{{Cite web|url=https://www.distampa.com/bar-arte-la-nuova-proposta-di-silvio-benedetto/|title=BAR-ARTE: LA NUOVA PROPOSTA DI SILVIO BENEDETTO|website=Distampa.com|date=July 23, 2019|access-date=November 9, 2021}} in occasion of its installation "Man-Christ" (polyhedral structure of 33 m of height). The installation of December 1974 will be dismantled after a few days by the municipal administration, because "representing a Christ not suitable for Christmas. This will provoke infinite polemics. They will sign the manifesto of Benedict many exponents of culture and art, including: Bruno Zevi, Luigi Nono, Enrico Crispolti, Leonardo Benevolo and Cesare Zavattini.[http://comune.raffadali.ag.it/i_tesori_della_biblioteca_comunale/schede%20singole/benedetto.html] {{dead link|date=November 2021}} He was invited, in 1977, to the X Quadrennial of Rome{{Cite web|url=http://www.quadriennalediroma.org/arbiq_web/index.php?sezione=archivi&id=987&ricerca=|title=La Quadriennale di Roma – Arbiq|website=Quadriennalediroma.org|access-date=9 November 2021}} – Foreign artists working in Italy, where he presented his "Trilogy": "Flood", "Procession" and "Greek Tragedy".Domenico Guzzi, "L'anello mancante"- Figurazione in Italia negli anni '60 e '70 – Collana "contributi alla storia dell'arte" – Laterza – 2003{{Cite web|url=https://www.maremagnum.com/libri-antichi|title=Libri Antichi e Rari – vendita online|website=Maremagnum.com|access-date=9 November 2021}} In Normandy the Museum of Fine Arts of Fécamp set up a personal exhibition.{{Cite web|url=https://www.senzamecenate.it/stories/silvio-benedicto-benedetto|title=Silvio Benedicto Benedetto|website=Senzamecenate.it|date=1 November 2013|access-date=9 November 2021}} In 1992 the Norman Palace in Palermo hosts his first exhibition of sculpture: "The Metaphor of the Mountain".{{Cite web|url=https://www.distampa.com/archeologia-del-presente-lenigmatica-installazione-silvio-benedetto/|title=ARCHEOLOGIA DEL PRESENTE: L'ENIGMATICA INSTALLAZIONE DI SILVIO BENEDETTO|website=Distampa.com|date=March 5, 2018|access-date=November 9, 2021}}

He began in Campobello di Licata the design, together with Olga Macaluso, of the Valley of the Painted Stones (110 polychrome boulders, in travertine of two meters by three, painted in several sides) on the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri. Invited to the exhibition "Raum!" at the Vienna Künstlerhaus, he exhibited in 1998 his installation "Via Scialoja 6 at the Künstlerhaus" and presented a performance inspired by Goethe's Faust.Benedetto è anche regista teatrale. A partire dal 1996 lavorò sulla regia del Faust realizzando tre diversi spettacoli: “Lo specchio di Mefistofele” (presentato a Roma), “Faust opera ultimo” (al teatro di Rovigo) e il “Faust” al festival di Radicondoli (a Siena) edizione del 2000. Since 1999 the National Park of the Cinque Terre has engaged the artist in the realization of the project "The artistic itineraries in the National Park of the Cinque Terre". Silvio Benedetto, in fact, created and realized large mural paintings in the five railway stations of the municipalities of the Park: Riomaggiore, Manarola, Corniglia, Vernazza and Monterosso uniting them through a single thread, by style and theme, thus creating a tourist-cultural "path".{{Cite web|url=https://www.cinqueterregateway.com/turismo/arte-e-cultura/|title=Arte e Cultura | Hospitality and Best Logistic|website=Cinqueterregateway.com|access-date=November 9, 2021}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.gazzettadellaspezia.it/cultura/item/85553-il-mare-del-mito-silvio-benedetto-a-riomaggiore|title="Il mare del mito": Silvio Benedetto a Riomaggiore|website=Gazzettadellaspezia.it|access-date=November 9, 2021}} He also designs and realizes the decoration of Piazza Capellini in Manarola, with the collaboration of Silvia Lotti in the realization of the terracotta tiles and the collaboration of his daughter Flavia Benedetto in the creation of the circular decoration in the center of the square. Inauguration, also in Manarola, of the monument to Fabrizio De André. Along the entire wall (157 meters) of the pedestrian tunnel of Riomaggiore (leading from the station to the center of the country) he creates "The Sequence of Memory": a multi-material mosaic with shaped tiles, glazed majolica, polished, and with the use of various materials such as stones, pebbles, marble (including red and green Levanto), crystals, mirrors, shells, pottery, the mosaic depicts the coast of the Cinque Terre. In 2000 he realizes at the Arsenale Marittimo Militare{{Cite web|url=https://www.gazzettadellaspezia.it/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=85920|title=Un mare di favole al Cantiere della Memoria|website=Gazzettadellaspezia.it|access-date=November 9, 2021}} of La Spezia, the mural "Tradizione Tecnologia Arte" and several sculptures-assemblage as well as a performance within the Smart. In 2001 he starts "L'Iliade in terra e fuoco", a ceramic mural of meters 7,30 for 3,10, composed by majolica of different shapes, with figurative subjects on the theme of the Iliad.{{Cite web|url=http://www.diegogulizia.it/manifestazioni%20e%20mostre/Iliade%20di%20Silvio%20Benedetto/index_benedetto_iliade.html|title=Documento senza titolo|website=Diegogulizia.it|access-date=November 9, 2021}} Of the Iliad by Silvio Benedetto there is also a graphic work (realized in the same year).l'intera opera grafica è stata pubblicata nel 2006 da Kalòs come: “L'Iliade di Silvio Benedetto”

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• David A. Siqueiros, “Como se pinta un mural” – Città del Mexico – 1951
• Giorgio Di Genova, Calabria-Guccione-Quattrucci-Verrusio/ Maria Luisa Eustachio e Antonio Borrelli/ Gianfranco Ferroni/ Silvio Benedetto/ Carroll – Roma, Libreria terzo mondo – 1964
• Leonardo Benevolo, Mario De Micheli, Giorgio Di Genova, Emilio Garroni, “Silvio Benedetto” Ed. Il Tucano – 1966
• Emilio Garroni, “Silvio Benedetto o Il grado zero del realismo” – Galleria Due Mondi −1967
• Serie Arte Contemporanea – Ed. UNEDI – 1979
• “Roma contemporanea” – Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Roma – 1995
• “Gli Itinerari artistici” Ed. Parco Nazionale delle Cinque Terre – 2002
• Domenico Guzzi, "L'anello mancante"- Figurazione in Italia negli anni '60 e '70 – Collana "contributi alla storia dell'arte" – Laterza – 2003
• “L'Iliade di Silvio Benedetto” Ed. Kalòs – 2006
• ”Itinerari Artistici del Parco Nazionale delle Cinque Terre – Opere di Silvio Benedetto”, Confidenziale Gruppi 07 del Parco Nazionale delle Cinque Terre – 2007

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• {{Cite web|title=Intervista di Silvio Benedetto per Trashic Magazine|website = YouTube|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRExGaFe10U&feature=feedu/}}

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