Senza titolo (dalla serie Gesto e materia), 1958

“Stability of the unstable”: these are the words Vasco Bendini uses when referring to the meaning of his work as an artist. Characterized by various phases, his career has been marked by unbound experimentation, characterized by a rejection of rigid stylistic identity and a courageous autonomy from schools or groups, staking out a position that has been called “anarchic.” The historical category Art Informel relates to one important aspect of his work, but it does not include other expressive forms and the invention of personal and original languages. In the early 1950s the artist’s works interrogated the very characteristics of painting. His introspective capacity and his personal form of spirituality led him to investigate the theme of the human face. [...]