But conceptually, he has decanted yet more, forcing the process of creating the image beyond the threshold of all discerning, turning a time for action into a sort of spasmodic concentration (of a “white, silent orgasm” as Calvesi put it) in which the subjectivity of the artist loses its memory and is lost – as Bendini himself writes – in a “state of manifest grace”. While Emilio Villa was able to write for him in 1980 about an “other nature invented through painterly initiative”, in more recent times Bendini has placed himself in a condition that is extreme, and to a certain extent definitive.
Se nel 1980 Emilio Villa aveva potuto scrivere per lui di “altra natura inventata dalla iniziativa pittorica”, in questo tempo recentissimo Bendini si è posto in condizione estrema, per certi versi definitiva.