Corrado Bonomi at “Siamo Fiori”
15/10/2021
An amble life
27/04/2022
From today it is possible to see the latest installation created by Corrado Bonomi at the Camporelli biscuit factory in Novara. The artist’s Castles in the air now welcome the customer and frame the products of the rich selection of sweets. The work, which has been part of Bonomi’s corpus of works since 2002, has been enriched with new details, now the castles give way as protagonists to the biscuit symbol of Novara, a certainly innovative and interesting way to present the product.
Bonomi’s castles arise from a reflection on the theme of lightness, on which he had already found himself experimenting in the past, giving shape to a cliché or saying known by all and used to indicate a dream, a project or an unrealizable ideal but that takes shape in our mind. Bonomi deconstructs this aspect by giving physical and material form to something that, instead, was born to be intangible and ethereal.
Bonomi, often linked to works with a strong critical content, sometimes satirical or even sardonic, puts this vein aside to devote himself to the creation of a “light”, “soft”, one could also say “sweet” project, marrying perfectly with the environment in which it was hosted.
It is interesting to underline the closeness of an artist from Novara to the reality of the territory in her products and in her historical places. In fact, the biscuit factory has maintained its historic headquarters, in Vicolo Monte Ariolo 3, consisting of a laboratory and sales point, since 1852, when the Camporelli family resumed the tradition of the holiday dessert historically packaged by nuns from the mid-1500s.
From today, Novara residents will be able to follow not only the scent of biscuits but also Bonomi’s clouds to reach this iconic place in the history of Novara.
