Exhibitions

Dates: March 15 – May 24, 2024 Location: ON House Milan Like an illusionist of the past century, Claudio Onorato transforms ordinary sheets of black cardboard into rich and intricate cutouts which, when crossed by air and light, reveal the bewitching and

Dates: March 1 – October 5, 2024 Location: Milan Water Central – MM Company Museum We have learned from Science, for some time now, that 70% of the Earth's surface is covered with water, including in this calculation the oceans, polar ice

The personal view of a skilled demiurge capable of absorbing the different poetics of our time, reinterpreting it in an ironic and amused way, making concrete and visible what usually eludes us.Matter seems to lose consistency and specificity, acquiring the

Contemporary and Baroque style, faith and disillusion, discomfort and lightness, are the themes in Claudio Onorato’s research which are hosted in the 17th century Baptistery of Velate at the foot of Sacro Monte, Varese. Huge hand cut paper sheets invite visitors

The 5th International Biennale of Paper Art Works is a reflection on human fragility, in the complex and, at the same time, uncertain period of the pandemic. Claudio Onorato presents three finely cut out paper works (among which I Lost

Animal totemThis work, made of cut cardboard worked with scissors, scalpels, Swiss army knife, painted in black, red, white, yellow acrylic color, seems to never end, it is like a mountain. Such impudence towards the laws governing statics, the balance

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

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

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

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

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

.. 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 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

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

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