The awareness of returning to oneself begins with the unconditional acceptance of the existence of a spiritual path. This is the foundational condition for all those who intend to operate at a "higher level." The alchemical tradition teaches us that there can be no transformation of matter unless there has first been an inner mutation or evolution. The dull coexistence with the mere dimension of the accidental represents a cruel mutilation of the cognitive possibilities of our "human journey," and the transitoriness that connects us to other dimensions risks being just a missed opportunity. Matter and colour are co-relatives of the same "mother frequency." Matter and colour are the didactic supports that Claudia Bonollo/Sophia Cromatica uses to invite us to explore the "mother frequency" through the pretext of art.
I argue that this artist's work is based on the continuous overlapping of neural, vegetal, and cosmic suggestions in an attempt to materialise a single dynamic visual map. Here, each work becomes a "psychic garden"; a fertile place, perpetually pregnant, where the maturation of the fruit is achieved through its synthesis, defined by the artist as chromatic metabiologies.
These complex representations decisively point us to a very clear principle: there is no physical body separate from an astral body; there is one body. A body in continuous mutation, and like any recognised body, efforts are made to understand its functions, structure, and operational possibilities.
It is a delicate, sometimes surgical, never redundant work that is structured on the anatomical study of ancestral connections. We are facing a polyphonic experiment that uses visual urbanisation to optimise and make the future journey auspicious.
Any artistic work that involves profound conceptual elaboration is, in fact, a semantic compression; a bridge that connects what has already happened with the continuous becoming. It is a welding that becomes clear every time we compare seemingly different works, such as suspended gardens and digital painting visions. The union between these worlds can only be the artist, who, through her inner architectures, invites us to inhabit arboreal worlds where the purest fairy-tale sense of childhood suspends us in anticipation of a new, deeper breath.
It is the consecration to the domestic habit of "being," waiting to be ready for the grammar of her chromatic cartographies. In the history of humanity, the feminine has always been a protagonist in practices aimed at the therapy of the soul, and Claudia Bonollo/Sophia Cromatica reminds us of this with her own grace and the invincible strength of poetry.
Fabrizio Loschi, Artist and Curator
Dimensions: (100 x 200 x 210 cm) x 3
Expo at ATELIER CROMATICO- OPEN HOUSE-MADRID: https://creativeinsomnia.wordpress.com/espacios-sensiblescromaticos/sophia-cromatica/
In 2023, Claudia Bonollo realizes a long-imagined dream by creating an artistic alter ego: Sophia Cromatica, who signs all the new colour experiments.
The new Instagram profile @sophiacromatica is attracting the attention of numerous galleries and creative collectives. Sophia Cromatica's latest research has been exhibited during Open House Madrid in the Atelier Cromatico space (21st, 22nd, and 24th September 2023).
CV Sophia Cromatica
Born in Rome and adopted by Venice, a contemporary ancient soul, since her early artistic beginnings, her compositions have explored the depths of metamorphosis. Her paintings are visual mythologies. In her early artistic production, the influence of mosaic with its chromatic potential led to a repetition of the square in its sublime expressive power. Small and large paper tapestries transform into angelic figures, manifestations of the sacred, cosmogonies inspired by the four elements.
Thanks to her studies in architecture and cinema, she collaborates with musicians, actors, designers, and choreographers, creating scenographic sculptures and video installations. She is the only artist selected to design and create the attire for the ceremonies of the Zen Master of the Buddhist Temple of Fidenza.
The cross-pollination of various languages and media, in which color takes center stage, gives rise to total installations in which the viewer becomes an integral part of the work, enveloped and involved in a meta-narrative of color and light. The arabesque is the common thread of possible atemporal crossings.
In her ethereal spaces of color, one ascends to another dimension, a spiritual body and a celestial land, 'in the world but not of the world.
In 2023, Claudia Bonollo realizes a long-imagined dream by creating an artistic alter ego: Sophia Cromatica, who signs all the new colour experiments.
The new Instagram profile @sophiacromatica is attracting the attention of numerous galleries and creative collectives. Sophia Cromatica's latest research has been exhibited during Open House Madrid in the Atelier Cromatico - International platform for art, culture, and colour research. Multidisciplinary laboratory for conscious chromatic exploration (21st, 22nd, and 24th September 2023).
CV Sophia Cromatica,
Originally from Rome but adopted by Venice, is a contemporary ancient soul. From her early artistic beginnings, her compositions have explored the depths of metamorphosis. Her paintings are visual mythologies.
The cross-pollination between various languages and media, with colour as the absolute protagonist, gives rise to total installations where the viewer becomes an integral part of the work, enveloped and engaged in a meta-narrative of colour and light. The arabesque is the common thread of possible timeless crossings.
In her ethereal spaces of colour, one ascends to another dimension, a spiritual body and a celestial land, "in the world but not of the world."
