Riccardo Bonfadini Giuseppe Junior was born in Cremona in 1971. Son of the painter Pino Bonfadini, he inherited his passion for the visual arts from his father. At the same time he is confronted with different artistic expressions; he is author and composer of pop music and poet. Lives and works in Soresina.

The first relationship with art occurs through painting; from an early age, thanks to his father Pino, painter and sculptor, he was able to learn the most elementary techniques. He discovers the first oil paints, thinners, canvases, poor paper, spatulas and brushes. The perspective, the proportions between the objects, the facial expressions. A wealth of memories that will accompany him until the beginning of his artistic career. We are at the end of the nineties when the need to transform the inherited passion into a profession takes shape. In the mid-2000s the first important exhibitions. Simultaneously with the artistic-visual activity, he writes and composes pop music pieces, managing to forge fruitful collaborations with important artists of the Italian music scene.

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After a period of pure painting, passing from classical figuration to geometric, he matures awareness and attitude towards a more conceptual art, essentially linked to a more communicative sphere. Objects and matter burst into his work; This is how the Industrial Fossils take shape, works created through the fusion of plastic bags. Bonfadini anticipates what would soon become global practice, namely the banning of plastic. It presents the first Eco-Pop Manifesto in which it establishes the desire to use art as a deterrent to any form of environmental and cultural abuse. Further and ideological development of the IF project are the Wash, wall washing machines through which the artist communicates the need for purification; through these works of art, a parody of the usual domestic washing machines, Bonfadini proposes its own solution to the impending degradation. Bonfadini's work of art becomes increasingly linked to everyday life; an incessant dialogue between objects and words that generates extraordinary and unpredictable results. He thus presents us with installations with a surreal character, where the protagonists are tiny characters who insinuate themselves into household chores, unexpectedly inhabiting things in common use. Their interaction with objects generates misunderstandings and misunderstandings that inevitably strip them of their original functionality. Misunderstanding, one could conveniently say; a sort of nonsense that tries to unhinge certainties and clichés. Bonfadini takes us into an intimate sphere anchored to a playful world, where play is the main action that leads us to the final result. A game perhaps never interrupted; the desire to relate every situation in real life to a parallel imaginative world.

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The artist wisely manages to investigate different forms of expression: from installations to painting, from plastic fusions to the digital construction of the image up to the world of photography. Each cycle, however, maintains an expressive coherence and the same communicative vivacity; he understands that art lives and develops mainly through thought. His works tell of our contemporaneity through the constant use of objects produced by it, filtered by an often ironic vision of everyday life which, in the recovery of things and their reinterpretation, finds the most congenial dimension. His works are therefore the result of an incessant relationship with the society of the present, in which any object can become a "work of art" if supported by intuition and concept. Bonfadini, an apparently light artist, shrewdly uses words as real “tools” of the trade.

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In 2007 Riccardo Bonfadini won the "Arts and Culture" award in Milan; in 2008 he was invited to exhibit with a personal exhibition at the European Parliament in Strasbourg; in 2010 he took part in Art Basel Miami Beach (U.S.A.); in 2012 he won the “Ora 2012 International Award”; in 2014 he was awarded the "Nocivelli Prize"; in 2015 he was a finalist in the "Ghidoni International Prize". IIn 2020  eh was award Paratissima Torino. In 2020 he was finalist Art Rights Prize. Numerous solo and group exhibitions in Italy and abroad.