Mirabilis Mundus

Mirabilis Mundus

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 future seem almost to coincide, in which the becoming is pure and without measure, in which reality merges with fantasy, history is as real as imagined, smile and reflection alternate.These, for Claudio Onorato, are the modes of the contemporary world, in which paradox risks becoming an established sort of reality of which one is never surprised. This is why, continuity, which is also in the title, has for the artist an extremely precise meaning : to make sure that the nature of one’s gaze keeps dissolving ambiguity, to show reality and its paradox even by making them extreme, but one must never lose sight of irony. This way the facts of our time enter his works not only as wonderful worlds, but also as wonderful stories for the world.