Enzo Benedetto - Cyclists In The Countryside (1922)

oil on canvas
59.5 x 75 cm
signed and dated on the back "Enzo Benedetto - Yol 4-12-XXII".

Enzo Benedetto known as Record was born in Reggio Calabria in 1905 and with time became one of the most important representatives of Futurist poetics in southern Italy. The young man immediately became the spokesman of Calabrian futurism, also taking care of propaganda activities by writing articles in the newspaper 'Il corriere della Calabria', many of which were dedicated to the figure of Umberto Boccioni, a fellow countryman and leading representative of the movement.

In the 1920s, he became so interested in Aeropittura that he was one of the signatories of the Manifesto dell'Aeropittura. 

Cyclists in the Countryside, painted in 1922, represents the beginnings of the painter, who intended to show the dynamism of athletic and mechanical movement, inspired above all by Boccioni.