Marino Benigna, Defenceless, oil on canvas, 70x100 cm, 2014

Oil on canvas realised by the contemporary artist Marino Benigna, that represents the portrait of a body rich of contortions. The face is hollowed and colours are typically gloomy and dramatic. The subjects proposed by the artist are tragic and deformed, often characterized by gutted mouths and troubled eyes, that show the anguish and the pain of humans. In Benigna's artworks is visible an influence by Schiele and by artists belonged to Vienna Secession, but also an other influence from the classic world in nubby and painful articulations of Matthias Grünewald's crucifixion. The work is signed by the artist.