Eros Bonamini

Italy, 1942

Eros Bonamini was born in Italy in 1942. Self taught he first exhibits in 1969.

In 1974, Giorgio Cortenova outlines his painting peculiar features: the concept of the “Effective time of making”, which corresponds to the empirical moment of the work’s creation and the introducing of the art work as “map, recording of traces left on canvasses by instruments, materials and different signs.

In the early 70s Bonamini leaves the oil pigment and realizes the cement series: he applies a layer of bright grey cement and engraves it with a sequence of lines, becoming different as the time dries the material.

In the same period develops something more neutral and light: slices of clothes imbued in peroxide, immersed at different spreads in an ink bath and shown one near each other, to outline the creative process.

In the early 80s, Bonamini taps into an expressive dimension which is more articulated, more baroque, with signs, colors and gestures are superimposed and drawn colse to each other. The “Chronotopographies” (literally space and time scripts) of these years show elementary motifs sequences – dots, lines, signs, greek, labyrinths, spirals, spots, fill the space as a texture. In the 90s, the chronotopographies note a settling of this sign and chromatic exuberance. The recent works show a further rarefaction of the elements’ sensuality with a recourse to minimal signs, to whites, deep greys and blacks, to the use of mirroring surfaces involving in the transforming process that time operates on objects.