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It is easy to fixate on the material aspects of Beatrice Bonino’s work: silicone, plastics, paper, and cardboard, packaging boxes and silks that conceal or frame other artificial materials, found and made objects— such as ribbons, bows, and garments—or less resistant matter such as roses, lipstick, or foil-wrapped chocolate.
Bonino drops clues about what these assemblages might be, where they come from, in her titles that are unhesitating as they are mystifying, perfect even, but we will never know to our satisfaction what is going on.
One of her recurring registers is memory, another is value. A sentence in the text written for her solo exhibition Cosetta at MMXX in Milan is a compendious description of what she performs on objects: “The materials chosen from so many seemingly similar ones, now look the rarest to us.”
She will say that what she does mostly is to subtract. And that th…
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It is easy to fixate on the material aspects of Beatrice Bonino’s work: silicone, plastics, paper, and cardboard, packaging boxes and silks that conceal or frame other artificial materials, found and made objects— such as ribbons, bows, and garments—or less resistant matter such as roses, lipstick, or foil-wrapped chocolate.
Bonino drops clues about what these assemblages might be, where they come from, in her titles that are unhesitating as they are mystifying, perfect even, but we will never know to our satisfaction what is going on.
One of her recurring registers is memory, another is value. A sentence in the text written for her solo exhibition Cosetta at MMXX in Milan is a compendious description of what she performs on objects: “The materials chosen from so many seemingly similar ones, now look the rarest to us.”
She will say that what she does mostly is to subtract. And that th…
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