---Research per se is never based on final answers but on the formulation of counter-questions,
---pondering and investigating the mechanisms of functional or failed postindustrial social models.
---Along with objects, installations and the scenic layout of space, Benassi's works are like novels
---that analyse the construction of history, the demand for social utopias and their reality.
---These contents represent the groundwork on which to structure tangible works that
---do not offer themselves as immediate images, but simply want to suggest possible scenarios.
---Asking ourselves about the present using the conditional does not aim towards revision,
---but the identification of unfulfilled potential. In this sense, many artists from his generation
---interpret Calvino's premises of lightness to develop the image in terms of intensity and density,
---whereas in perspective they attempt to overcome the impasse of precariousness and fragility
---- factual and otherwise - to which so much of the art of the 1990s remained faithful.
---What we want to emphasize instead is that the removal of weight does not imply a lack of
---proactive force, just as the lack of structure does not mean that the image is not alluring.
---This demonstrates that a certain type of operational and design gravitas has its own specific
---lightness that strives to liberate the work's fantastical potential. Along these lines, the
---experimentation tied to linguistic assumptions gains renewed faith in the object and the ability
---to insert it actively in the space for an exercise in resistance. Benassi's works should be
---considered attempts to redefine the way we think about visual material, in which meanings
---often coincide yet fail to lead to any kind of synthesis. The critical key can be found halfway
---between the various layers and the separate narrations of the work, and these intermediate
---stages are effectively loci with political potential.

---Andrea Bruciati - Director of Galleria Comunale d'Arte Contemporanea Monfalcone----