Bonomo Faita, a Multifaceted Artist
THE EXHIBITION OF HIS VARIOUS WORKS WILL BE INAUGURATED ON MONDAY 16 SEPTEMBER AT 6PM IN THE BOCCONI RESTAURANT HALLFaita is one of the leading artists of the Portofranco movement, a group (or rather non-group, an atmosphere) that has gathered around the Franco Toselli gallery since the 1990s.
As can be seen by his work, Bonomo is not just one artist, but many. His style is not having a style, never repeating himself.
“Or rather”, said Elena Pontiggia, “his style is the slight vertigo of a reality that proves to be almost unreal and that, as Licini said, goes flying off on its own flights of fantasy”.
Bonomo’s flights are based on everyday things, where a newspaper becomes the desert of the Tartars, a gas kitchen flame looks like the Genie coming out of Aladdin’s lamp and a wildflower looks at itself in the mirror of the piece, because it’s looking at us (and not the other way around).
His art also features little cars driven by a toy bear and the most adventurous of the seven dwarves, who go wherever your dreams take you; mountains that come out of the sea during moonlit nights and then emigrate by boat.
There are also roast chickens that looks like Etruscan livers awaiting the haruspex; animals that have to do with the soul; negligible objects that become essential.
And more than anything, there are things that don’t make sense. Because the ones that do are of little importance. What really matters slips away.
In short, Bonomo Faita presents us with the mystery of everyday life. What we think we know so well and instead is the most foreign land that exists.
Free entrance, Monday-Saturday 9am-12pm
by Susanna Della Vedova
