Fairies Fairies Fatal

The Giovanni Bonelli gallery in Pietrasanta (LU) is pleased to present the personal exhibition of Corrado Bonomi (Novara, 1956), "Fatina Fatata Fatale". In the vaguely surreal and more than picturesque stage of Pietrasanta Corrado Bonomi exhibits a selection of new and unpublished works of what is one of the most profitable and long-lived cycles of his artistic production: the fairies, fairies, fatal. The work, first presented around the mid-nineties, could approach a complex and organic pamphlet on the condition of women in Italy from the post-war period to today. The "fairies", sometimes erotic in skimpy clothes, or imaginative in bright ruffles, embody, each in its own measure, a facet, a layer, a fragment of a certain feminine condition.

Servile, monastic, dreamy, playful, sexual, these small and pocket-sized women recall our fantasy in scenes, often buried, of our childhood, in which we saw a grandmother or a mother ironing the underpants of the man of the house, cooking for him, washing the kitchen. These little ladies make that type of woman an icon, often a little enclosed and locked in a condition from which she would like to free herself, but not too much, so as not to lose a certain comfort of security, or to not break too tenacious social patterns. From the first fairies, all busy in household chores, entangled in micro-worlds that put them at the center, but reduce them dramatically, Bonomi, begins to escape.

Here come more dreamy and surrealist representations, from the fairy who hands her man's calculation, right in the balance on the parrot overflowing with urine, to the one that crushes her husband's underpants, almost to destroy his virility, or to escape from his duties as perfect housewife, to get to the one who sees tears gushing out of her eyes a crocodile, in a scene that tastes a lot of South American magical realism. In these fairies, the game and the inspiration go further away, they go under the skin, leaving the viewer to understand the meaning of a gesture, slightly poised between teasing and subtle, sarcastic styled. To enter the world of the Fairies, therefore, we must not make any further effort: each of us has had at least one mother, a grandmother, an ancient aunt, a lover. Thus, through these we will see them again, and perhaps vice versa.

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