"How many times has Benedetto revealed his plastic sensibility to be able to go straight to the heart of the stone and his unquestioned ability to keep up a continuos dialogue between immagination and constructive freedom, to convert matter into space and light, still keeping a dynamic and privileged meditational view of his own sculpture (Giorgio Segato). An opinion that is a commonly shared experience in a purely abstract context without limits, like a never ending expression in a formal game. In his work every meditation is symbolic in Benedettos absolute confidence to simplify the sculptural forms as we see in the Avant-Guard of the 1900s. He has always been radically close to certain esthetic valves of this period but we should never neglect his background or the deep roots that anchor him firmly in the archaic world of his far away origins in Basilicata.

[..] It is then perfectly evident to see the mythological origins of these forms that he has so obsessively formulated, compounded and bent to his will in an effort to reduce to the absolute simplification. He has developed his "living" geometry of a mobile archetype to bring them to the light in their full chromatic musicality. In an age that has always been tradgic since the breakdown of the language of babel, Benedetto has formulated and brought forth a sintax of the absolute elementary language of sculpture that helps us to percieve immediately, happily and without stress. At the same time keeping his dual perception of how to delimit a sacred space asking to the valves of remote civilization and share with us the secrets of cosmic harmony that is all around us.

G. Cordoni