Within Diego Benéitez's pictorial research, landscape occupies a central place, even when his references to the natural world seem relegated to the background. The horizon, the extensions of color, and the variations of light constitute fundamental elements of his composition. Through them a territory is built whose geographic particularities have gradually dissolved. Thus, landscape progressively abandons its descriptive function and acquires a decisive role in the drifts toward the broad possibilities of his painting.
In works such as "El alma dormida" (2026), "Lo que se apaga" (2026), and "Ocaso" (2026), the horizon line establishes an elemental division between sky and earth. However, this separation loses part of its geographic function. The chromatic surfaces extend, the spatial references are reduced, and the gradations of light construct places that are difficult to locate outside the painting.