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Mauro Bendinelli was born in 1947 in Livorno (Leghorn), on the Tuscan coast, where he still lives. He has grown as a self-taught artist and has formed himself during the years thanks to his great sensitive soul. Since he was a child he loved drawing and using colours, and when he was 15 years old he begun to paint with oil colours. Then he lived for 10 years in Piemonte (North Italy) where he learnt a lot while painting from life. During this period he took part to several exhibitions of extemporary and contemporary painting in Italy and in Europe, obtaining many important recognitions. Nel 1978 he was invited to an important collective show in an Art Gallery in Florence, together with some other well-known artists such as Annigoni, Gottuso, etc. Since he was a young man he has tried to understand from the great masters of time important notions joining researches, and has studied mixing the whole with a striking spontaneity. He loves to underline that “a painting must convey sensations; if this touches the observer then the artist has reached his aim”. He refuses both any kind of classical-type art and motifs of easy colouristic effect, founding his work on elements both of clearness and of compositive construction and therefore obtain a real, true result. Observing his works we can read with extreme clearness the message that he wants to transmit. During his career many journalists and art critics have written about his paintings which perfectly represent the Tuscan landscapes (full of sunflowers, poppies, fields of wheat, rows of cypresses and vineyards). When you look at any of his paintings, you can feel the heat of a typical summer day in the Tuscan countryside. The colour is skilfully spread, it is warm, bright, clean and follows firm lines. “I am fond of simplicity in every sense; in the poetry which nature gives us ….my great aim is to transmit on the paintings the truths and sensations that surround me”. He is fond of the hills that encircle us, and he has always reproduced them with great passion transport and delight. In the traditional painting there is the search of the colour, of the air, of the delicacy.  The ones who have the pleasure of his acquaintance will surely be touched by his works, but most of all by his simplicity and mostly by the deep respect for the others, essential quality in order for a man to be considered a pure artist.
Partecipation to Arte Expo of: Firenze, Bruxelles, Padova, Palermo, Montichiari, Pietrasanta, ecc.
Artistic criticism: Corgonati, Pistono, Taulino, Bonetti, Domenici, ecc…
His works appear in public collections in Italy and in foreign countries and shows on year-books and catalogues of modern art.