SAMANTHA BONANNO
EXIBITIONS AND COLLABORATIONS
 Biennale Bacoli.jpg |  Biennale Procida.jpg |  "Con la Natura,con le Mani"Vigevano, june 2021 |
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 "Le mani Raccontano" |  ExibArt Page2019 |  Exibit "Arte in Vigevano"2017 @Cavallerizza del Castello di Vigevano (PV) |
 Christmas Workshop for Starbucks Italia2019 |  Book Art Catalog cover |  "Book Art"Exibit @ GrapGroup Pordenone 2016 |
 Book art Workshop during "Book Art" exib@Grabgroup Pordenone 2016 |  Paper Art conferencePalazzo della Provincia di Pordenone 2016 |  "I Am" at "Book Art" exibPordenone 2016 |
 Metamorphosis in Wunderkammer@Sala dell'Affresco Castello di Vigevano (PV) 2018 |  Paper Installation for "Sedara"Director: Valerio Incerto @Locali del Museo Leonardiana 2018 |  Hope @ Castello di Belgioioso"Arte in Movimento " Exib 2016 |
 Dedicated to the most shinig dance star , italian Arts and Colture ambassador.Beauty generates Beauty. Made for order,1018 |  Me and Myself @ Cavallerizza"Arte in Vigevano " exib 2016 |  "Era perduto,ed è stato ritrovato" exib@Museo del Tesoro del Duomo di Vigevano (PV) 2016 |
 "Era perduto, ed è stato ritrovato" exib tith little sweetie@Museo del Tesoro del Duomo di Vigevano 2016 |  Collaboration with italian Artist Giuseppe Farruggello"Personali al Mezzabarba"exib @Palazzo Mezzabarba , Borgarello (PV) 2017 |  Light installation @Caffe' NovecentoFaenza , 2018 |
 Outside as Inside @ Astrolabio VigevanoConversation about Paper Art ,for Evuz Art 2019 |  "Milano" installation at Brainstorming@Ral Art and Craft 2013 |  Installation @Villa Mazzuchelli2013 Mazzano (Brescia) |
 "From these deep wounds"for IL VAGLIO cover , 2015 |  A room in V-Room@FuoriSalone via Tortona Milano 2011 |  ReflectionAltereted Book 2013. Made for order. |
 collaboration with brand "Heidi Couture" |  Heidi Couture fashion show in Wien2015 |  from these deep wounds @ Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Broletto di Pavia"Mostra collettiva d'Arte Contemporanea exib,2015 |
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FORMA MENTIS
Forma Mentis is an endless journey where paper meets other materials, like fabric or wire
and became something else.
Is art to wear , to experience and carried around with all its meaning.
It is a latin term that indicates a person’s mindset , a person’s set of attitude, or ,
more simply,the mental structure.
It also interesting how these two words alone precisely indicate artistic work: continuos
reflection and study which are expressed through shapes.
Paper, pearls and gold foil brooche
BIOGRAPHY
After graduating from The Marangoni Fashion School in 2000, the artist worked for many years as a pattern maker, while going through a deep change in her personal life she decided to dedicate herself to another great passion and learn the different methods of paper processing. Book sculpture, Cut Out and Origami are some of the techniques she has perfected and she overlaps these in her creations. If up until then she was able to turn stylists ideas into three dimensional creations she has now managed through her intriguing personality to construct her own excellent designs.
This new beginning of her artistic experience lead her to create various designs, each one different to show her technique, nature and purpose. The young artist/designer still collaborates in fashion and works on commission when she’s free to use her creativity, she makes incredible accessories, but above all she creates artistic pieces imbued with value and significance. Each piece has a different inspiration: a song, a meeting, a journey and those books that, after many hours of developing, modelling, glueing and precise cutting, take the fragile, elegant forms that mirror her sincere personality; each single piece has a unique value, it’s own life, a clear sign or a hidden element amongst the folded pages.
