- Bea Bonafini
Ogni Pensiero Vola
Renata Fabbri is glad to present Ogni Pensiero Vola, Bea Bonafini’s first solo show in Italy.
Rooted in the compositional and iconographic research that defines the artist’s background as painter, Bea Bonafini’s work articulates transversally, moving across heterogeneous media, languages and physicalities. Relying on materials that are intrinsically related to the body and the subject’s intimate sphere, the artist shifts her pictorial register to an environmental level, combining immersive installations with a fauna of chameleonic objects and sculptural configurations.
In her recent productions, she emphasizes the use of textiles, tapestries and other materials able to project the viewer into a comfortable space. A place incarnating the sacrality and the familiarity of the domestic dimension, therefore instigating an encounter with the artwork that is both bodily and spiritual. On the occasion of her first exhibition at the gallery, Bea Bonafini not only investigates the compenetration of art and intimate spaces, it also looks into the movement of elevation and metamorphosis that goes with such intersection. As suggested in the title – which is in turn taken from an inscription found in the famous Gardens of Bomarzo – the project explores the idea of flying as a phenomenon relating to magic, spirituality as well as to the animal world. The artist floods the gallery with colourful figures; intertwined silhouttes on majestic carpets sit next to a multitude of divers, birds and other subjects peeking out of the walls.
In Ogni Pensiero Vola Bea Bonafini opens up the core of her research, bringing forward an osmotic system of symbols and forms which fluidly transform as they circulate from one work to the other. The artist further extends such personal lexicon, gathering personal and collective imaginaries, fantastic and historical narratives within the same explosive visual constellation.
Renata Fabbri is glad to present Ogni Pensiero Vola, Bea Bonafini’s first solo show in Italy.
Rooted in the compositional and iconographic research that defines the artist’s background as painter, Bea Bonafini’s work articulates transversally, moving across heterogeneous media, languages and physicalities. Relying on materials that are intrinsically related to the body and the subject’s intimate sphere, the artist shifts her pictorial register to an environmental level, combining immersive installations with a fauna of chameleonic objects and sculptural configurations.
In her recent productions, she emphasizes the use of textiles, tapestries and other materials able to project the viewer into a comfortable space. A place incarnating the sacrality and the familiarity of the domestic dimension, therefore instigating an encounter with the artwork that is both bodily and spiritual. On the occasion of her first exhibition at the gallery, Bea Bonafini not only investigates the compenetration of art and intimate spaces, it also looks into the movement of elevation and metamorphosis that goes with such intersection. As suggested in the title – which is in turn taken from an inscription found in the famous Gardens of Bomarzo – the project explores the idea of flying as a phenomenon relating to magic, spirituality as well as to the animal world. The artist floods the gallery with colourful figures; intertwined silhouttes on majestic carpets sit next to a multitude of divers, birds and other subjects peeking out of the walls.
In Ogni Pensiero Vola Bea Bonafini opens up the core of her research, bringing forward an osmotic system of symbols and forms which fluidly transform as they circulate from one work to the other. The artist further extends such personal lexicon, gathering personal and collective imaginaries, fantastic and historical narratives within the same explosive visual constellation.
- Bea Bonafini, Il Trionfo, 2018Pastels on mixed carpet inlay, 480×265 cm
- Bea Bonafini, Tomb Diver I, 2018Pastels on mixed carpet inlay, wood, 250×60 cm
- Bea Bonafini, Let It All Out, 2018Pastels on mixed carpet inlay, 200×265 cm
- Bea Bonafini, Tomb Diver II, 2018Pastel on mixed carpet inlay, wood, 210x70 cm
- Bea Bonafini, Tomb Diver III, 2018Pastel on mixed carpet inlay, wood, 250x70 cm
- Bea Bonafini, Tomb Diver III, 2018Pastel on mixed carpet inlay, wood, 250x70 cm
- Bea Bonafini, Tomb Diver IV, 2018Pastels on mixed carpet inlay, wood, 200×100 cm
- Bea Bonafini, Tomb Diver IV, 2018Pastels on mixed carpet inlay, wood, 200×100 cm
- Bea Bonafini, Floating Corpse, 2018Pastel on mixed carpet inlay, wood, 140x35 cm
- Bea Bonafini, Bodyless, 2018Pastels on mixed carpet inlay, wood, 55×45 cm
- Bea Bonafini, Bodyless, 2018Pastels on mixed carpet inlay, wood, 55×45 cm
- Bea Bonafini, Sinking Sleeper II, 2018Pastel on mixed carpet inlay, wood, 50x40 cm
- Bea Bonafini, Sinking Sleeper, 2018Pastels on mixed carpet inlay, wood, 55×45 cm

- Bea Bonafini


- Bea Bonafini
ALA Art Prize 23 goes to Bea Bonafini with the project “Acque Amare”

- Bea Bonafini,
- Andrea Martinucci,
- Serena Vestrucci
Oct 14 – 16, 2022
Main Section
Pav. 12 – Booth H7

- Bea Bonafini
Feb 1-4, 2019
Main Section
Pav. 25 – Booth A57

Renata Fabbri is delighted to announce that the artist has been chosen to create a project for the Croatian pavilion at the Sixtieth Venice Biennale, to take place April 20 to November 24, 2024.