Benny Nicolini

Hi, my name is Benny Nicolini and I'm a Freelance Illustrator , Caricaturist and Painter .

The languages ​​of design are endless. I explore techniques for different purposes, I illustrate illustrious characters, I draw the ideal world, I portray the world in reality. I create imaginary realities. I tell stories, I tell people. I interpret for commission, I draw for passion. I paint. I invent. I take the pencil and in the heart of every stroke that is born, there is me.

The languages ​​of design are endless. I explore techniques for different purposes, I illustrate illustrious characters, I draw the ideal world, I portray the world in reality. I create imaginary realities. I tell stories, I tell people. I interpret for commission, I draw for passion. I paint. I invent. I take the pencil and in the heart of every stroke that is born, there is me.

Here's what they say about me.

Federico BUFFA

Storytellers

"It was, I'm afraid, my sixtieth birthday. I was entering my sixth cornke according to the Chinese. A mutual friend commissioned a portrait from Benny. Mine. I wasn't ready. he had read minds, if I ever had one about it. Highlighting the narrators and not the narrator. He picked 4 impossibly greats in sports history to dominate his work. The ones I would pick. Thank you. Really."

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Gianluca VIALLI

Former Coach, FIGC Manager Captain of Juventus, 1996 European Champion

" Benny is an enlightened observer with a sensitive and talented hand that renders the physical and psychological uniqueness of the faces he portrays in an extraordinary way. His works fill me with admiration and good humor!"

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Jane ALEXANDER

Actress and Presenter

"Benny, in addition to being an outstanding artist, is a sincere friend and I'm really happy to be lucky enough to be able to call him that."


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Ivan ZAZARONI

Director of "Corriere dello Sport" and "Guerin Sportivo"

He always asks me: «Do you want it as an illustration or as a caricature?». Difficult to choose: the caricature is always very centred, the perfect illustration. For Conrad "truth can be crueler than caricature". In Benny's works cruelty is not contemplated: respect and the essence of the character prevail.


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Gavino SANNA

Caricaturist and international advertising guru

"Benny has reached the level of the giants of the past of satire: Galantara Garretto, Sacchetti, Molino. Each of his drawings has the force of an editorial. Modesty, a very rare gift, has allowed him to have many friends and admirers. And I am certainly one of the first."


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Livio BERRUTI

Legend of Italian athletics, World Record holder over 200m, Gold Medal at the ROMA'60 Olympics

"Benny's caricatures are the synthesis of a physical, anthropological and psychological analysis made with intelligent irony and great intellectual honesty."


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Renzo MARTINELLI

Director

“Benny is a great professional. He demonstrates an extraordinary ability to transform the director's indications regarding the single shot of the storyboard into drawings: lens used, angle, sequence of shots."