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Creation and printing in a limited number of copies of the catalogue dedicated to 21 artworks realised with corrugated cardboard. Siani, the producer of the material, one of the largest in Europe at the time, having noticed some of my creations exhibited in a private studio wanted to commission me the artworks where I would have to use only its unique materials. The catalogue reproduces the complete series of the 21 achievements, and on the occasion of its finalisation and printing, it has been requested the drafting by an art lover and copywriter of an introductory text.

Once upon a time, there was the cardboard. A simple material, used for packaging, a container that often goes unnoticed compared to the content. It is discarded as a packet; it is opened a box, then the cardboard ends somewhere. Material disperses, and whose substance is not appreciated, it ends up being forgotten. But it can happen a metamorphosis. The box becomes something more than a mere shell. May acquire a proper sense as pliable material. He caught this Bruno Biondi, which with these 21 artworks, continues and deepens an already successful past year experiment: to transform the cardboard through the magic wand of his artistic sensibility to redeem his mysterious nobility. The cardboard, in fact, suits incredibly to the creativity of this young artist. Of a painting should not be exploited only the two-dimensional appearance. You can, using just the cardboard, make a three-dimensional picture. Apply layers and affect the surface with redoing with material what happens inside the soul: an excavation. The act is to penetrate “into things” in a depth that is both spatially and temporally. Do not brush flat, not suggestions of light and colour. Biondi plays with the material. The result is an in-depth search of something behind, in the past, in memories. Conquer the ancestral, the intimate depths of a human journey, transferring this experience to the canvas. It is an artistic adventure that turns the humble cardboard of our everyday experience in a rare means of expression. And emotion. 

Dr. Roberta Spadotto - Aprile 1996, Milan.

Reproduction of one of the artworks commissioned and purchased by Siani - Corrugated cardboard 1 - 50x70 cm 1995