Inside the large Fabbrica Orobia hangar, Claudio Onorato presents “Apparitions and magical disappearances”, a mazy path one has to discover step after step, in which the visitor is invited to explore environments with different features, get through traps and unexpected

Onorato is certainly a storyteller of fantastic stories, sometimes born of his daily life, sometimes daughters of humanity. All the works on show are made on colored cardboard sheets cut out with a cutter. In this way the artist manages to build his

The content and form of these stories is inevitably linked to the medium that Onorato chooses for his works: paper. The artist draws on it, engraves it and cuts it out, letting the void obtained from this procedure allow the emergence

.. I met Claudio on several occasions, first at the Padua Fair, then at the stand of the Anfiteatro Arte Gallery, in Milan, on the night of the opening of the exhibition “Zecca clandestina” (Clandestine Mint). I liked the exhibition

The Anfiteatro show season opens with a story, which is exciting and rich in nuances. Poised between meticulous patience and love for work, dedication to art and attention to detail, this is the irony of someone who wants to change

Claudio Onorato draws his large works by cutting directly into black cardboard, as if the cutter was a substitute for the pencil. In his recent production, in fact, he has developed a very peculiar technique for the elaboration of his

Themes as heavy as a boulder, in the works of Onorato, are depicted with a sort of sensory lightness. In Claudio Onorato’s silhouette world, one can spot out the criticism to our contemporary geopolitical structure, economics and its fetishes . Every barrier

His world made of stories, tales, characters, animals, places and objects that meet and intertwine, is certainly admirable, wonderful and strange: falling into this out of time universe means, in fact, to plunge into a dimension in which past and

Alain Biltereyst, Michael Bevilacqua, Marco Bongiorni, Andrea Carpita, Nyan Isabel Cornish, Michele Gabriele, Corinna Gosmaro, Mirak Jamal, Pesce Khete, Andrea Kvas, Asger Dybvad Larsen, Tiziano Martini, Claudio Onorato, Alice Ronchi, Josh Reames, Joe Reihsen, Gabriele de Santis, Santiaco Taccetti, Graham

Alain Biltereyst, Michael Bevilacqua, Marco Bongiorni, Andrea Carpita, Nyan Isabel Cornish, Michele Gabriele, Corinna Gosmaro, Mirak Jamal, Pesce Khete, Andrea Kvas, Asger Dybvad Larsen, Tiziano Martini, Claudio Onorato, Alice Ronchi, Josh Reames, Joe Reihsen, Gabriele de Santis, Santiaco Taccetti, Graham