Florence, Palazzo Vecchio showcases Tiziano Bonanni with a review on identity

Entitled IDENTITY 1,618, the exhibition dedicated to the decades-long work of Florentine artist Tiziano Bonanni (Florence, 1967): the theme of the exhibition, running from Aug. 28 to Sept. 5, 2019 in the Sala d’Arme of Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, is identity as the core value of the individual in relation to his or her time and its historical and social transformations, but also identity as the golden constant 1.618 or “divine proportion” that from theVitruvian Man by Leonardo da Vinci, on the 500th anniversary of his death, stands as the cornerstone between unpredictable human genius and artificial intelligence, between the limits of programmed perfection and the unlimited power of ’intuition that man has genetically possessed since time immemorial.

The exhibition will also be an opportunity to support the Tuscan Cancer Association and promote through contemporary art a message about the importance of its free home cancer care service. In this regard, it will culminate with a symbolic “finissage” ceremony in which one of the works on display, dedicated to Mother Teresa and titled Come sassolini gettati nel mare (2017), will be donated to Dr. Giuseppe Spinelli, president of ATT, and auctioned off. All proceeds will be donated to support the association on the occasion of its 20th anniversary since its founding in 1999.

The Florentine exhibition will present a selection of about 70 works including paintings, sculptures and compositions; the show presents Bonanni’s various creative phases since the 1990s and with them also the evolution of expressive techniques. An artistic production that has always adhered to social and existential issues, which recently the artist has further elaborated. Since the 2000s, painting alone is not enough to express the change that has touched man and society, so the artist relies on the use of different materials layered together to tell new historical paths. This is how the GenS (Generative Stratification Style) series was born, where the figure appears intermingled with residues, stratifications, precisely; forms that look like a proliferation of images triggered by emotion, by memory, on the basis of analogy rather than logic: “a stage of hybridizations,” writes Nicola Nuti in the introduction to the catalog, “on which parade the figures of today, immersed in a dramatic density.”

An uninterrupted narrative represented by a series of works divided into three periods, 1989-1999 / 2000 - 2009 / 2010 - 2019, in which historical memory and personal memory are intertwined in an evocative setting.

Tiziano Bonanni is a painter, sculptor, graphic artist, designer and teacher: he is president and director of RST ART ACADEMY, a school of training and specialization in the arts of drawing and painting based in Scandicci, in the province of Florence, since 1997. He graduated in 1990 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, working later as a teacher and designer in free profession for well-known Italian fashion and craft brands. In 2014 he graduated in Visual Arts and New Expressive Languages of Painting, Two-year Specialty Program, at the same Academy. An athlete and judoka, she has drawn inspiration from martial disciplines merging them with her humanistic roots for the achievement of quality in every activity of life and art as a principle of excellence. Florence is his city with which he lives a deep bond: an honorary member of important historical and cultural institutions of the city of Florence, he was a white-sided footballer for the S. Spirito district in the game of livery soccer.

The exhibition, curated by Nicola Nuti, is illustrated in a catalog(Polistampa).

Hours: 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Free admission.

Pictured: Tiziano Bonanni, Infinite mind, Polycomposite pictorial transition in Gens style, 2017

Source: press release

Florence, Palazzo Vecchio showcases Tiziano Bonanni with a review on identity

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