Artwork details
- Medium : Bronze With Stand
- Dimensions : Length: 12.6in, Height: 13.8in, Depth: 9.1in
- Edition : All editions sold (6 / 6)
- Artist's proof : 1
About this artwork
Bronze
Series of 6
2025
TENDERNESS is a bronze sculpture depicting a sleeping baby dressed in small pants and an animal-shaped hat. The child rests gently on the back of a fantastical creature, part rodent, part dream-beast, whose face mirrors the animal hat the baby is wearing, dissolving the boundary between imagination and reality.
This piece belongs to the collection Los niños y sus amigos… imaginarios, a body of work that delves into childhood as a space where identity begins to form through symbols, companions and inner worlds.
Tenderness embodies the quiet bond between a child and the imaginary beings that accompany us in our earliest attempts to understand the world, a creature that can be seen as an intimate vision of protection and innocence.
Francesca Dalla Benetta
Italy
Credentials
- International Exposure
- Featured in gallery curations
- Works on commission
« The stories of each character, isolated in an intimate and personal dimension, are reflections on human values, perceptions and emotions. »
Francesca Dalla Benetta is an Italian sculptor based in Mexico. After 10 years working as a makeup artist in the film industry, Dalla Benetta is now a dedicated full-time artist. Her work is characterized by anatomies and mixed forms. Faces and human bodies are combined with different textures, skins and elements, giving rise to hybrid and fantastic beings. Through unusual, strange and surreal bodies, her pieces focus on the problems of transformation, identity, the sense of belonging, self-perception and dreams.