Benito Cerna || Painter
Benito Cerna || Painter
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Benito Cerna brings classical discipline and contemporary vitality into direct conversation. His equestrian paintings are animated by movement, yet grounded in structure, clarity, and technical control.
Working in oil on canvas, Cerna approaches equestrian sport through a language of expressive realism. His compositions often center on slender horses, poised riders, and moments of concentrated motion, balancing elegant draftsmanship with energetic surface and vibrant color.
The horse in Cerna’s work is both lived subject and symbolic form. His paintings engage the arena not simply as spectacle, but as a place where discipline, partnership, and force become visible. This gives the work both visual immediacy and conceptual depth.
What distinguishes Cerna is the foundation beneath the expression. His background in art restoration informs a refined understanding of light, pigment, composition, and tonal structure, allowing even his most dynamic paintings to retain compositional restraint.
Medium - Painting || Materials - Oil on Canvas
Dimensions - Mid-scale to large-scale canvases suitable for statement placement
Cerna works primarily in oil on canvas, drawing on a restoration-trained sensitivity to surface, structure, and color balance. His process allows fluid brushwork and contemporary energy to emerge from a disciplined technical base, ensuring that motion never comes at the expense of form.
These paintings are best experienced at scale, where their rhythm and compositional tension become fully apparent. In person, the balance between brushwork, anatomy, and color unfolds gradually. They reward collectors who respond both to movement and to control.
Self-taught painter with a technical foundation shaped by art restoration
Strong engagement with equestrian sport as both lived experience and symbolic archetype
Expanding recognition beyond Peru within contemporary equine art circles
Integrates seamlessly into both traditional and modern interiors
Appeals to collectors seeking movement without sacrificing structural integrity
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