Title: 4 Biomorphic Landscapes in Bloom – Inner Landscapes/Organic Bas-reliefs
Year of Creation: 2024
Materials or Technique: Collage with plant elements: stabilised moss, reliefs with recycled materials, biophilic design with flowers
Special Prize Winner PRIMOPIANO
The Primopiano project makes me especially happy because we share values that are very important to me: well-executed work with close attention to detail, an almost high-craftsmanship approach that fits perfectly with the new post-craft and organic movements spreading across Europe; the pursuit of well-being through a focus on perceptual phenomena and sensory experience; intelligent sustainability, born of an ecology of thought; and, last but not least, the ability to offer people a personalised, tailor-made project designed specifically for them. This kind of empathy is much needed today, helping and guiding people to express their tastes within their homes, the most important living space.
These are the same values that describe my eco and biophilic design studio, MONAMOUR NATURAL DESIGN the first in Europe to specialise in personalised interior landscapes using preserved natural plants. Our studio’s approach is sustainable not just because we work with organic elements, but more importantly because it is based on a clear business model that treats both nature and the artisans we collaborate with with respect and sensitivity. It’s no coincidence that the first exhibition organised around our work, with the support of the French Embassy and Dimad, was titled Organiques. (for more info: https://monamournaturaldesign.wordpress.com)
I created a dossier that will detail the entire work-in-progress process, where our experimental approach will be clear, alongside the constant research and refinement that characterises us, culminating in the meticulous finishes that are our hallmark, always striving to achieve the best possible results.
The concept of the project, an organic bas-relief divided into four squares representing four themes that are important to Primopiano and inspired by the configuration of their concept Kitchen by you, is to create square, abstract, and diverse universes that lend themselves to different interpretations and compositions: a square composed of four smaller squares, a horizon (a horizontal sequence), or a totem (a vertical sequence), depending on the spatial possibilities available, without compromising the overall harmony. Changing the order of the elements results in a composition that remains sensorially stimulating. When the four squares are arranged within a larger square, they echo the early patterns used to establish spaces: they are protofigures of an original space and allude, without fully revealing it, to the synthesis of a fifth element—a kind of quintessence that transforms the earth (the square) into a star (the sky, the hidden fifth element).
BIO Claudia Bonollo, Architect, artist, and eco & biophilic designer. She combines her research activities with experimentation in all fields of creation, integrating different techniques, materials, languages, and disciplines. She is the Art Director of the first eco & biophilic design studio in Spain and Founder and Director of the Atelier Cromático, an international platform for art, culture, and research, as well as an experimental laboratory for the mindful use of colour.
She has exhibited in London, Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, Madrid, Barcelona, Ibiza, Marbella, Brussels, Taipei, Hong Kong, Rome, Florence, Venice, Bologna, and Milan. Her work is included in numerous public and private collections and has been featured in leading art, design, and architecture magazines.
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MONAMOUR NATURAL DESIGN Monamour Natural Design is a pioneering eco & biophilic design studio operating on an international scale. Monamour Natural Design’s organic installations, where colour study is essential in creating a sensitive space, invite contemplation and activate sensations of well-being, forming atmospheres that are varied and versatile: dreamlike, thematic, and empathetic, but always eco-friendly and respectful of the environment. For a year and a half, they have collaborated with the College of Physicians of Madrid on a project that bridges Art, Nature, and Health.
ARTE LAGUNA PRIZE EXHIBITION: November 16 – December 8 – 2024 ARSENALE NORD VENICE
Special Thanks: Fabio Flora, Riccardo Capodicasa, Denis Broduriès, staff Arte Laguna Prize
| THE WINNER OF PRIMOPIANO CUCINE |
| PRIMOPIANO CUCINE, partner of the 18th Edition has chosen Claudia Bonollo as winner artist who will create a site specific project for the company’s Showrooms. All the winners of the Special Prizes of the 18th edition have been announced and will be officially awarded at the Arsenale Nord of Venice on Saturday November 16, 2024. Congratulations to all the participants! |
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BIOGRAPHY
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 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. Multidisciplinary laboratory for conscious chromatic exploration.
ATELIER CROMATICO – International platform for art, culture, and colour research. Multidisciplinary laboratory for conscious chromatic exploration
Founded 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.
Recently, it has also become a private gallery that opened its doors during the Open House Festival in Madrid. We are thrilled to have been selected for such a prestigious festival in Europe. Sophia Cromatica represents our latest venture in colour research.
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SOPHIA CROMATICA
Also in 2023, Claudia Bonollo realizes a long-imagined dream by creating an artistic alter ego: Sophia Cromatica, who signs all the new colour experiments.
The new Instagram profile @sophiacromatica is attracting the attention of numerous galleries and art-collectors.
Sophia Cromatica’s latest research has been exhibited during Madrid Design Festival, Cruza Carabanchel Festival – Madrid (first Edition), Seminar CREAtividad y SOStenibilidad – Pensar como una montaña (Thinking like a Mountain) at La Casa Encendida (www.lacasaencendida.es) and Open House Madrid in the Atelier Cromatico – International platform for art, culture, and colour research. Multidisciplinary laboratory for conscious chromatic exploration (21st, 22nd, and 24th September 2023).
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Sophia Cromatica is a contemporary ancient soul. From her early artistic beginnings, her compositions have explored the depths of metamorphosis. Her paintings are visual mythologies.
The cross-pollination between various languages and media, with colour as the absolute protagonist, gives rise to total installations where the viewer becomes an integral part of the work, enveloped and engaged in a meta-narrative of colour and light. The arabesque is the common thread of possible timeless crossings.
In her ethereal spaces of colour, one ascends to another dimension, a spiritual body and a celestial land, «in the world but not of the world.”.
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