He is the son of art , his father was one of the famous Tuscan Painter Natale Bencini (postmacchiaiolo and post impressionist),who use to attend in Florence the Cafè Giubbe Rosse together with his friends Painters such as: Annigoni, Carrà, Conti, Viani and the poet Mario Luzzi.

The young (Bencio) was very cultural and pictorial, receiving his first art lessons from these teachers.

Continuing in painting he begun his exhibitions in some of the major galleries.

He was invited by the European Community, Universal Cultural Community of Artists,

He has exhibited in New York Gallery in Union Carbide Park Avenue, Munich.

Artists in the World, is a memro academic.

One of the most famous Italian and foreign critics have written about him and about his painting.

Gino Gentile (one of the biggest Italian critics and The owner of the Academy of Rome ) writes about him:


Gianfranco Bencini is a whimsical painter who can give you a fantastic and easy sense to some common elements, such as :

flowers, fruits, landscapes, objects.

Almost anchored to an experience "fauve" postimpressionist, especially in colour, composition; l

ed to a free interpretative choice ,

he seems to refuse every academic gather to build a ¿personal painting¿ of those natural elements, giving a reinvention, a transfiguration alive and brilliant , certainly original.

The love of the things painted are so strong in him itself, so sincere that it succeeds to have the artistic courage to overcome the lesson in a way for a form purely unconventional.

Those fruits, those flowers, those landscapes have a new physical dimension in his paintings: a quite unreal structure, metaphysics and at the same time a shiny body, strange, as if the author would have tried to find in those "things" ¿a symbolism¿, there is a mysterious connection with his own character, a mixture of passion and irony; obviously an creative intense full of fun to free from any type brain complications, to offer us a fascinating material, an expression try that We can accept and We can make it Our own spiritually. And this is in the bottom end of the art: knowing how to arouse admiration with great simplicity, avoiding intellectual diaphragms.

The works are displayed permanently at Florence Art Gallery www.firenzeart.it, at Cromona www.imagineart.it, spaderina di piacenza and in other galleries.

Because of his strength of colour and composition of his paintings he has been described as a ¿Caravaggio Moderno¿.

He has also expressed successfully in modern art , awakening the admiration and the sensation, always in his personal way to give the color as few, a strength and harmony of extreme beauty. These colours can give you at first sight a Amazement, and flesh and blood in depth, so that you get used and it seems necessary.
He is master in making lithographs in which one part is left blank and repainted with oil and that¿s why every lithograph is different for the colours and shape for that blank part repainted with oil.

The art of Gianfranco Bencini is for everyone because it is understandable and beautiful.