Simple Wonders
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
City of Water
Dates: March 1 – April 6, 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 Suspended World
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
Invasions
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
5th Biennial of Schio
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
Handmade
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
4th Biennial of Schio
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
In the depth of the surface
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
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
Sea of paper
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
True stories
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
Clandestine Tick
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
Padua Fair
.. 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
Fabbrica Orobia 2012
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
Mirabilius Mundus – Lecce 2011
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
Fabbrica Orobia 2010
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