Biography
Patrizia Bonardi's artistic research starts from an intimate and inner core, in which a woman tries to undertake an active part as a citizen, with a direct political and social engagement.
Mother of three children, she studied The Theory and Practice of Contemporary Artistic Language, analyzing the relationship between artists and sociologists, graduating with top marks.
She has undertaken an environmentalist engagement as well and has founded a Committee for Health and Territory.
Her artistic projects have developed in various contexts, from drawing to videoart and photography, from painting to installations, with a well distinct personal imprint.
Bonardi's videos have been shot with a non-professional video-camera and they show simple actions, often undertaken by the artist itself. The videos show an inner evolution, her attempt to develop an intimate dimension into a social one.
Care-taking becomes a comprehensive, political attitude and some materials can symbolically convey this strong engagement. The bandage dipped into beeswax builds frames that remind us of man and nature pain. This is the source for her works, developing into installations like "Liquid collapses", "Care" and "Quasar".
She is the creator of the online page artists.sociologists and founder of the association with the same name, that tries to enable the dialog between artists and sociologists, in the light of her thesis “Incontri inattesi quando artisti e sociologi dialogano” 2009.
Patrizia Bonardi lives and works in Bergamo, a town in North Italy.
