Exhibitions

  • Dates: March 1 – April 6, 2024 Location: Milan Water Central – MM Company Museum "City of Water" is a thought-provoking exhibition that explores the relationship between the city and the natural world. Onorato's work is both beautiful and unsettling, and it

  • 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