Enrico Benaglia

The green apple

oil pastel on cardboard - cm 30x40  - cod. EB 10

Enrico Benaglia

He was born in Rome in 1938. While still a teenager he attended the French Academy in Rome and the artists' studios of the Roman School. In the sixties and early seventies he came into contact with a cultural world contributing to the definition of his poetic world.

Since the eighties, it ranks in the national art scene thanks to the original and symbolic thematic  linked to the fairy-tale world. Since the nineties successive major exhibitions in Italy and abroad: "The enchanted living room" at the Castle of L'Aquila in 1998, "States of permanent instability" at Villa Letizia in Treviso in 2000, "The Secret Garden" at the Museo del Vittoriano in Rome in 2002, "Geography of emotions" at the Museum of Santa Maria della Scala in Siena in 2004, "Inner Path" at the Civic Art Gallery of Teramo in 2007, "Collages-Paintings" at the Pinacoteca of Città di Castello in 2008, "Benaglia's Circus" at the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome in 2010, "Mediterranean Splendor" at the Chamber of Commerce of Catania in 2011. His works have also been exhibited at picturesque locations such as Airports "Charles de Gaulle "in Paris and New York's JFK, and in prestigious institutes of Italian Culture.