(Reggio Emilia 1925–2011 Pavia)
Arabesco, c. 1968, white lacquered metal with kinetic semi-circular cuttings, wood, brass, neon light, 200 x 50 x 99 cm

Provenance:
Private Collection, Italy

Born in Reggio Emilia in 1925 and raised in France, Giacomo Benevelli is an important representative of the abstract sculpture movement. He lived and worked in Milan for over fifty years, and in the course of his artistic endeavours was able to come to know the great masters of Italian and international art, such as Moore, Huelsenbeck, Kokoschka, and Arp intimately. He was also able to develop his own formal style, which is recognised by the leading academics in the field of modern art. He broke into the Italian and international art scene from the end of the 1950s, with numerous exhibitions and public commissions, among which number Teleios, a bronze dating from the 1990s located in Piazzale Loreto in Milan, and Edificante, a vertical bronze in the atrium of the civil engineering offices in Milan.
Over the years, Benevelli has explored the potential of form in its multiple functions. Since the 1960s he has moved closer to the application of creative plastic solutions in design, such as his light / lamp sculptures, Arabesque and Roto, produced by Gaetano Missaglia.