Eros Bonamini.

Leading figure of 20th-century art, since his debut in the early Seventies, awareness and consistency manifested themselves in the artistic research of Eros Bonamini, together with a continuous research and in a constant planning tension.
In 1975 Bonamini exhibited his Tabelle Pittoriche at the Galleria dello Scudo in Verona: inaugural works of his entire creative path, monochrome fields, one on another in succession, able to call into question, until the hypothesis of abandoning them, the representative possibilities of painting.
Edited by Francesco Tedeschi, the book covers the artist's long career from the series of Cementi, ribbons and inks made between 1975 and 1978 to the works of the 1980-1990s, from the series of absorption paintings to the famous Cronotopografie (literally "writings of space and time").
Once the semiotic and chromatic exuberance decants during the Nineties, the artist continues his research on Cronotopografie in different directions: the pictorial one, characterized by a constant trend towards simplification, acted by minimal and light signs, with a palette dominated by white, deep grey and black; another one made with neutral or coloured plexiglass, where the traces of time are translated into precise sequences of point and labyrinthine scars, or burnt wounds and edges; a further one built with the action fury on the reflecting metals, where the blunt object is the metronome of the repeated and violent action, until foretelling the catharsis of the artist on the matter, while the mirroring and deforming surface increasingly involves the viewer in the process of existence and time consumption in space.
Besides the research on reflective metals differently marked by the action of time, it is possible to find the more recent study on burnt canvases.