Barbara Bonfilio is an Italian painter. She lives and works in a small village in the Pollino National Park.Her poetics investigates the relationship between man and the surrounding environment, those spaces that surround, envelop and reflect our body, in the physical and spiritual dimension with which our existence is constantly forced to confront. His painting is characterized by a speed and determination of execution, the method is flexible and varied and accepts the unexpected and the error as its founding values.
She uses quick and decisive gestural signs on acrylic-based images, creating unique figures and portraits in an expressive dreamlike world.
She is very fascinated by the flesh, the skin, the skin with its alterations as a mirror of the soul. In her work the fragmentation of body and skin occurs through the backgrounds and brushstrokes, which break up and dissect the body and the skin.
Master degree in Painting, Albertina Academy of Fine Arts, Turin, Italy, 2001. In 2021 she was shortlisted for the Self Portraits Prize (This year's jury included renowned gallery owner Victoria Miro, BBC Arts editor Will Gompertz, Museum of Science director Sir Ian Blatchford, High Court judge Mrs Justice Cheema Grubb, 2019 Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Award Winner David Dawson and Ruth Borchard's Son, Richard Borchard).
She participates in the Prize with the work "Self-portrait with a bandaged eye", which investigates and reveals the artist's body, telling the artist's relationship with her own monocular blindness that she has had since her birth, experienced in everyday life.In recent years her works have been exhibited in Italy and abroad, both in private galleries and in spaces public and institutional. Among the solo and group exhibitions the following locations are worth mentioning: Mother Museum of Naples (2014), Foundation 107 of Turin (2021), Castello di Rivara Contemporary Art Museum (1999), Self Portraits Prize virtual platform Vortic Art (2021), Young International Art fair of Maastricht (2017), Moulhouse 007: Talents of the European Academies Moulhouse (2007), Young International Art fair of Paris (2017), Galleria De Chirico contemporary art of Turin (2013), Galleria Biasutti of Turin (2011), Giudecca Art District (2022), Elleby Contemporary Art Gallery of Cosenza (2016), Amleto Bertoni Foundation of Saluzzo (2012), 54th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale - Lo Stato dell’Arte, Italian Region (2011), Mole Vanvitelliana of Ancona (2011), Diffused Museum of Turin (2010), Contemporary Art Gallery of Gaeta (2006), Felice Casorati House-studio Museum of Pavarolo (1999).
Winner of the Exhibition Award by Deltarte and of the Communication Award by Yas Art Agency at the We Art Open 2022 Award, winner of the Special Jury Prize at the Matteo Olivero Award (2011) and mention of merit by the Jury at the Felice Casorati Biennale (1999 ) and the Limen Prize (2011).
Selected in several national and international awards including: Self Portraits Prize (shortlist 2021), We Art Open Award (finalist and winner 2022), 49 'Suzzara Prize (finalist 2020), Combat Award (finalist 2010), Biennale Felice Casorati (finalist 1999), Morlotti Prize (finalist 2003/2004), Artkeys Prize (finalist 2020), the Limen Prize (finalist 2011), The RezArte Prize (finalist 2014), Selected with publication in the catalog in 2004, 2007, 2008 at the Celeste Prize.
In 2016 she was selected and participated in the BoCS Art artistic residency curated by A. Dambruosio.
Some of his works are present in museums, public and private collections, including the 107 Foundation for Contemporary Art in Turin, the Municipal Art Gallery of Contemporary Art in Gaeta, the Miroglio Group Collection, the Permanent Collection of the Foundation. Cassa di Risparmio di Cuneo, the collection of the BoCs Art Museum and the MUBE Museu Brasileiro de Escultura - San Paulo.
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