// Reviews & Insights
"Petronio Bendito has transformed online images of natural disaster into pools of thoughtful visual reflections" –Michael Crowthers (Curator, Art Museum of Greater Lafayette)
The Natural Disaster Color exhibition has many layers of meaning and provides us with an opportunity to look at Color in a new way. –Kendall S. Smith II (Executive Director, Art Museum of Greater Lafayette)
“Globally concerned, visually alluring, conceptually charged” –Nancy Zastudil (Writer & Curator, Central Features)
“Gorgeous” –Deborah Curtiss (Artist, writer, author of “Introduction to Visual Literacy: A Guide to the Visual Arts and Communication)
"Our vivid memories of those tragic [natural disaster] events have been shaped by the countless photographs and videos that have been posted on the internet by amateur photographers, witnesses and survivors alike. (...) Petrônio Bendito recovers them, and engages in a dialogue with this new imagery of death, doing for online social media what Warhol had done in the 1960s for mass media." –Catherine Dossin (Art Historian, Purdue University)
Bendito’s compositions literally “bend” the visual field, and sometimes create 3D optical effects (…) a “soft edge” through manipulated curved lines; a bending of the aesthetic to produce a new chromatic experience. –Elizabeth Mix (Art Historian, Butler University)
“Within numerous images of the aftermath of disasters that show misery, anguish, and destruction, the artist has concentrated on matching many of the colors within these images. (…) These well-organized compositions begin to visually ebb and flow as well as create a sense of depth. Bendito has added by creative study and manipulation the human light of hope and emergence” –Tom Shafer (Journal and Courier)
"Bendito examines the symbiotic relationship between nature and humans while bringing awareness to issues related to climate change, preparedness, resilience, psychological effects … with a focus on the notion of transcending pain. The series also examines the role of digital printmaking in contemporary art processes." (Alibi)
"Perhaps one of the greatest virtues is the alchemy of turning darkness into light, pain into lucid moments of reflections, loss into new findings and meanings, horror into color! -- Petronio Bendito (Natural Disaster Color artist)
The Natural Disaster Color exhibition has many layers of meaning and provides us with an opportunity to look at Color in a new way. –Kendall S. Smith II (Executive Director, Art Museum of Greater Lafayette)
“Globally concerned, visually alluring, conceptually charged” –Nancy Zastudil (Writer & Curator, Central Features)
“Gorgeous” –Deborah Curtiss (Artist, writer, author of “Introduction to Visual Literacy: A Guide to the Visual Arts and Communication)
"Our vivid memories of those tragic [natural disaster] events have been shaped by the countless photographs and videos that have been posted on the internet by amateur photographers, witnesses and survivors alike. (...) Petrônio Bendito recovers them, and engages in a dialogue with this new imagery of death, doing for online social media what Warhol had done in the 1960s for mass media." –Catherine Dossin (Art Historian, Purdue University)
Bendito’s compositions literally “bend” the visual field, and sometimes create 3D optical effects (…) a “soft edge” through manipulated curved lines; a bending of the aesthetic to produce a new chromatic experience. –Elizabeth Mix (Art Historian, Butler University)
“Within numerous images of the aftermath of disasters that show misery, anguish, and destruction, the artist has concentrated on matching many of the colors within these images. (…) These well-organized compositions begin to visually ebb and flow as well as create a sense of depth. Bendito has added by creative study and manipulation the human light of hope and emergence” –Tom Shafer (Journal and Courier)
"Bendito examines the symbiotic relationship between nature and humans while bringing awareness to issues related to climate change, preparedness, resilience, psychological effects … with a focus on the notion of transcending pain. The series also examines the role of digital printmaking in contemporary art processes." (Alibi)
"Perhaps one of the greatest virtues is the alchemy of turning darkness into light, pain into lucid moments of reflections, loss into new findings and meanings, horror into color! -- Petronio Bendito (Natural Disaster Color artist)
