Publishings and Press

By Eduardo Albert Santos
Ernesto Benítez’s artistic production has gradually become oriented toward a particularly topical issue. In the present circumstances, the collapse of existence drawn in terms of coherence, stability, confidence in the future, leads to the image of the broken and fragmented human being, dislocated with himself and his environment, doubtful of his own subjectivity, which he fears or in which he is consumed without a pertinent way out.

By Darys J. Vázquez Aguiar
Ernesto Benítez is focused on a constant and deliberate quest to understand the human condition through his art. His main obsession has become a serious ontological exploration, of the mind and the body. Thus, in his most recent project, One and a Thousand Eyes, Benítez seeks to decipher existential and cosmological secrets through an interior monologue. The daily exercise of self-reflection transforms the artist into a monk of his own practice, and his creative method into a ritual.

By Yolanda Wood
Contradictions are essential in the old history of antinomies. A concept that refers us to Greece in the times of the great thinkers and to the logic of understandings and knowledges that ignored the great significance of the counterposed judgements. Ernesto Benítez’ recent work is not unaware of any of these theses; rather than that -age apart– he takes possession of them as a necessary way of transit for the rediscovery of the truth from ourselves…