My First Quantum Room – Claudia Bonollo
QUANTUM ROOMS
“The chromatic rooms and holograms are the result of a creative process inspired by an incessant exploration of emotions: colour-emotion transforms into space, into a path constructed from within. It is both narration and contemplation, a tool to project and build our meta-interior architectures. These visions arise and are transformed by colour, and colour, in turn, stimulates and transforms us. The chromatic space are a mythic narrative, a sensitive and vibrant environment, virtual and ever-changing, as fleeting as thoughts… Chromatic narratives become personal and intimate landscapes, mirrors of the soul, essential cartographies of our consciousness.”
Claudia Bonollo
Colour interests Claudia Bonollo not only as a cultural tool but also, and above all, as an element that generates inner transformations. Chromatic worlds encompass material, spatial, emotional, spiritual potentialities and become authentic places of the soul, metonymic paradigms between internal and external vision. “Total installations” are sensitive spaces where colour becomes an experience.
In this direction, different versions of contemplative rooms were developed, the most elaborate being “LA HABITACIÓN CUÁNTICA,” exhibited in the “CRUCES Y CONVERGENCIAS” show at the La Neomudejar Museum in Madrid. She also organized a roundtable discussion with psychologists, artists, and architects analyzing various aspects of these rooms. The experimentation continues with ephemeral installations in Cantercel (Montpellier, France) and the Fundación NMAC for contemporary art (Vejer de la Frontera, Spain), always accompanied by conferences and workshops.
The Quantum Room is a video installation with transfigured images (both biological and abstract) that explores the close relationship between colour and emotions. At the entrance, there will be a list of the projection sessions with a brief description of their characteristics and this short film takes part of the selection.
A new quantum room with new content and with a new container, was presented at the last edition of the Proyector Festival (Madrid 11-22 September 2024).
SHORT FILMS
Seventh day, the unseen Sabbath.
Nanni Cagnone, poet
Nothing more unveiled, a misty expanse.
Yet she summons, an azure spread here, A road’s trailing course, things appear.
In Claudia/Sophia’s call, colours adhere.
So, to her, those concealed from sight,
Shall inquire for insight and light,
In her touch vibrant, they ignite.
The video is also part of another parallel investigation that uses colour as a tool for constructing space. The videos and projections are self-sufficient works; however, the artist uses them as tools to create sensitive spaces (environments that combine real and virtual elements) where different levels of well-being can be experienced and where large-scale chromatic narratives can be interacted with, erasing the distance between the viewer and the artwork, and transforming the perception of colour into a personalised experience.
At the very beginning, the scientific iconography was a source of inspiration. Some short films in which some scientific starting images are elaborated, have been awarded in the Ciencia y Sugerencia competition. The interest in the mystical visions of Sufism and in the studies on active imagination illustrated masterfully by Henri Corbin, push me to attend the intense annual meetings of philosophy, theology and history of religions, organized by the CEEC (Centro Estudios Espirituales Comparados) in Arena de San Pedro (Ávila-Spain). “My transdisciplinary research awakens the interest of professionals from distinct fields of knowledge: art and architecture critics, philosophers, anthropologists, doctors and therapists, biologists, neurobiologists, mathematicians, physicists, psychoanalysts, psychologists and theologians. The artistic and theoretical work is selected by Bernard Légé, Head of Research Projects and Delegate of “Image et Science”, an emanation of the CNRS in Paris and by the Director of CAMERA (Conseil Mondial pour les Études et le Réalisations sur l’Art) in France.
In 2008, it was my first cellular space (sensitive installation with projections and music) in the Patio of the Italian Cultural Institute in Madrid with the Patronage of the Embassy of Italy followed by several meta-projects and installations in Paris, Cantercel (France), Madrid (Múseo La Neomudejar) and Fundación NMAC – Montenmedio Arte Contemporáneo.
“I have created a series of installations, cellular spaces where a more active participation of the spectator is intended, which is an integral part of the work.” (Claudia Bonollo).
Remember, no colour is neutral.
Good vision!
THE INNER COLOUR – 4 ELEMENTS
HEART WRENCHING BLUE
HEART WRENCHING BLUE is a chromatic narrative that lasts the length of a song (I Bet on Losing Dogs), just a few minutes during which colour becomes emotion and feeling, tools with which we create our inner landscapes. These are fluid, ever-changing architectures, like clouds where strange figures can be glimpsed.
The short video I am presenting was inspired by my latest artistic research project, THE ROUTE OF the FORSAKEN)
INNER LANDSCAPES
METABIOLOGIES: THE IMAGINED BODY
The Route of the Forsaken, my last research (the Imagined Body), will be a PERMANENT EXHIBITION at The Ilustre Colegio De Los Médicos De Madrid (The Illustrious College Of Physicians Of Madrid).
It was available for viewing with guided tours during the open days (26-29 September 2024) as part of Open House Madrid, which has selected this artistic project.
ATELIER CROMATICO
Claudia Bonollo is a multifaceted artist. She has always integrated her artistic crossing with research on the creative act in all its possible forms, with a particular emphasis on colour and eco-friendly,biophilic and empathetic design, alternating between research and experimentation in every field of creation.
Founder and Director of Atelier Cromatico, International platform for art, culture, and colour research, experimental laboratory for conscious chromatic exploration.
One of her video art works, LA CELLULA CITTÀ, was selected for the exhibition “SOCIAL CITIES – Self Identities, Common Places” and the programming of the international performance and independent cinema festival during the 71st Venice Film Festival.
ATELIER CROMATICO – International platform for art, culture, and colour research. Experimental lab for conscious chromatic explorationFounded in Madrid in 2002 and led by the Italian architect and artist Claudia Bonollo, Atelier Cromatico is an international organization and a cultural platform for research. It is a hub for cultural promotion, originally established as a laboratory for a new artistic landscape, and has since become a meeting point for artists, architects, art lovers, historians, philosophers, psychologists, and more. The activities are structured around workshops, themed dinners, creative nights, masterclasses, seminars, exhibitions, video screenings, all guided by two fundamental criteria: the belief that research should be approached in a multidisciplinary manner, and the importance placed on experimentation, transforming each participant in our initiatives—whether a teacher, student, or visitor—into a researcher. It has also become a private gallery that opened its doors during the Madrid Design Festival, Open House and Cruza Carabanchel (2024).
CLAUDIA BONOLLO ATELIER 