Chiara Bonato: Selected works, 2021-2023
The urban space, volumes, and landscapes stay etched in my memory and build a formal vocabulary that inspires me. I often start with many drawings, which transition to volumes. In my work, we usually find elements that remind these relations to the world: explicit correlations and plays on tensions or balance. I juggle between cogency and rupture, playing with the rigidity and suppleness of clay.
My ceramics are a meeting of color, texture and volume. The immediate effect of color and material in relation to form induces a wide range of suggestions
I want to appeal to the senses and give the illusion of the light, the heavy, the soft, and the hard while exploiting the potential of the ceramic material. The shades of colors and the different textures supply this reflection around these sensations. The glazes are generally applied as monochrome layers.
When placed in space, the sculptures find their new context in places and, therefore, produce a new meaning. My work leaves room for astonishment. The isolation and juxtaposition of the sculptures in the space create a continuity of formal elements, which are the support of our own projections.
Captions
- Untitled, 2022, stoneware and glaze, H68 x 22 x 49 cm
- Sinue, 2021, stoneware and glaze, H11 x 11 x 90 cm
- Contemporary ceramics show C-14, Paris
- Exhibition Le Grand Tour, Group show, 2021, L’usine, Le Poêt-Laval, Drôme
- Topia, 2022, stoneware and glaze, between 55 and 78 cm
- Osciller, 2023, stoneware and glaze, H25 x 30 x 65 cm
- Defluo, 2023, stoneware and glaze, H96 x 26 x 26 cm
- Contrepoids, 2023, stoneware and glaze, H53 x 40 cm
- Vaciller, 2023, stoneware and glaze, H26 x 57 x 110 cm
- Sinue, 2021, stoneware and glaze, H11 x 11 x 90 cm
- Levant, 2021, stoneware and glaze, H 48 x 30 x 30 cm
- Untitled, 2023, stoneware and glaze, H25 x 40 cm
- Untitled, 2021, stoneware and glaze, H35 x 6 x 35 cm
- Onin 1, Onin 2, Onin 3, 2021, stoneware and glaze, between 35 and 40 cm high
- Onin 1, Onin 3, 2021, stoneware and glaze, H40 x 26 x 26 cm
- Untilted, 2022, stoneware and glaze, H25 x 22 x 43 cm
