Gabriele Bono, alias Gaudiofasto, was born in Montichiari, a town on the slopes of the Morainic Hills of Lake Garda. In 1985, he obtained his high school diploma in applied arts at the State Art Institute of Guidizzolo - Mantua.After...
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Gabriele Bono, alias Gaudiofasto, was born in
Montichiari, a town on the slopes of the Morainic Hills of Lake Garda.
In 1985, he obtained his high school diploma in
applied arts at the State Art Institute of Guidizzolo - Mantua.
After years in the graphic and design sector,
in 2001 he started working in the restoration of artistic and cultural
heritage.
In that time he worked mainly in the field of ecclesiastical art works and for long was immersed in sacred
facilities of religious rite buildings. There, in the hieratic solemnities that
have their abode, observed by the atonal and detached faces of Saints and
martyrs, overpowered by the opulent and voluptuous forms of the embellishments
and sacred furnishing, he found himself reflecting on the profound underlying contradictions
of religious doctrine that cleanses from sin, and also, on the evident
incongruences in the fundamental precepts at the base of human society.
Gaudiofasto thus discovered his origins amid
the reverberations of the sumptuous gold coating that reflected with divine
light, and in the search of his own elementary, cognitive event, and his
equilibrium in the knowable. It was an aim which, according to the artist,
would have made him acquire an incomparable richness.
