In the year of the centenary of Vasco Bendini 's birth, celebrated by a large retrospective underway at GNAM - National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome and after a long absence in the lagoon city, Galleria d'Arte Maggiore gam in collaboration with ACP - Art Capital Partners Palazzo Franchetti brings Bendini's art back to Venice, after its last appearance at the 1972 Biennale, curated by Renato Barilli and Francesco Arcangeli. An opportunity to rediscover the multifaceted production of an artist who is tireless in perpetuating an eclectic expressive research with the most diversified means of expression, but always fueled by the desire to deepen the cognitive dimension of his own being. Bendini is a forerunner of trends, forerunner of the Informal and initiator of Arte Povera .

The exhibition through a selection of works that starts from the fifties, the informal period, passing through the sixties, follows the evolution of Bendini's research that comes to touch the art of performing in order not to stop in front of the challenge of polymateriality in the following decades .

Vasco Bendini (Bologna 1922 - Rome 2015) is the protagonist of an artistic path that often sees him as a precursor. It is an itinerary that hides its coherence, going from time to time to investigate the presence of images that are revealed through a tireless and pioneering renewal of techniques and languages.