Alessandra Bonoli

Alessandra Bonoli

Alessandra Bonoli was born in 1956 in Faenza (Italy), where she lives and works. In 1979 she graduated in Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna. Since 1980, she's been combining painting and sculpture into a single expressive language. "I consider sculpture as a space, a place to enter, a mathematical area where it is possible to live. Mathematical since based on a precise balance of weights and measures. Essential, but not minimalist structures. In my view, essentiality is a rediscovery of the original, archetypal shape, full of symbolic energy.

I've always been fascinated by ancient 'Sacred Geometries', going back to the remote past, in which the strong relation between man and nature gave birth to imaginary dimensions, both magical and imposing, translated in stone. The materials I use include steel, cement, stone, salt, and clay. In my search, the connection with nature is essential. Not only as an anthropological reality, but also because my installations always relate with their surroundings: water mirrors (the sculpture is completed by its reflection), the movements of the stars or the wind (an integral part of the installation, composed by a structure in a delicate equilibrium, oriented according to certain spatial angles), hollows in the ground (structures partly dug into the ground, similar to ancient bothros).... "