Composite Materiality

The necessity of experimenting with materials and techniques plays an important part in “Composite materiality” where the works exhibited lie from traditional techniques such as drawing or painting to the most linked to crafts, sewing and pottering. From the natural environments created inside vitrines by Bianca Bondi, to the processes of modifying the fabrics of Bea Bonafini, these four artists practices inherit a strong influence from the craftsmanship and play with new interpretations of textures, surfaces and materials in order to reinterpret the contemporary through the elements they have chosen for their practices.

As well as we can comprehend, the artists themselves are not anymore intended only as painters or sculptors. However, more often they are seen as multidisciplinary professionals. They develop their body of work by using different techniques and materials or usually due to the need of more freedom for their creative process, providing in this way, a clearer understanding of their thoughts to the viewer.

The use of different materials does not have to be perceived as something dispersive, contrariwise it strengthens the artist’s body of work, which experiences the contemporary through different media and therefore reinterpret it with such variety. The visual experience is unique, as unique is the result of the four artists’ practices in conversation which create therefore a composite materiality used as instrument of multiple narrations.