Mattia Bonetti at Cardi Black Box. Until July 31st, Cardi Black Box gallery presents an exceptional exhibition project: a show entirely dedicated to design, born from the growing contamination between contemporary art and other creative disciplines. The international project stages, for the first time in Italy, a solo show of the Swiss artist-designer Mattia Bonetti; a selection of works, which are all limited editions realized exclusively for Cardi Black Box. Mattia Bonetti is a versatile figure, a creative artist who demonstrates in his works a great draughtmanship in drawing and a remarkable skill in the passage from the model to its three-dimensional realization.
Above: Puddle Armchair, 2010, white and yellow gilded wood, silk velvet upholstery.
Mattia Bonetti at Cardi Black Box. Artist and designer, Mattia Bonetti and gallery owner, Nicolo Cardi.
Seen at Cardi Black Box. Bonetti’s Parisian dealer, Alessandro Pron, who owns the Galerie Italienne with another of the artists he represents, Giorgio Vigna.
Seen at Cardi Black Box. After Central Saint Martins Lucilla Bonaccorsi designs with her mother Luisa Beccaria.
Seen at Cardi Black Box. Swiss photographer and director, Edo Bertoglio and his wife Viviana. Edo is currently working on a photographic project called Ladies, which is a virtual continuation of his cult series Figurines.
Seen at Cardi Black Box. Obliviously not in South Africa, footballer, Billy Costacurta.
Seen at Cardi Black Box. Jewelry designer, Isabella del Bono and graphologer, Simonetta Pandozy de Gresy.
Seen at Cardi Black Box. Paola Manfredi is the top Italian art worlds P.R.
Seen at Cardi Black Box. Art critic, Michela Moro whose popular art blog you can read on Io Donna’s website.
Seen at Cardi Black Box. Design curator and representative in Italy of the Vitra Design Museum, Maria Cristina Didero. Didero also wrote the introduction to Mattia Bonetti’s Notebox, which accompanies the exhibition.
Seen at Cardi Black Box. Tower Cabinet, 2010, polished stainless steel, clear acrylic.
Seen at Cardi Black Box. The original drawing for Tower Cabinet produced by Galleria N. Cardi, Milano.