mixed media on canvas painting depicting Etna. Salvatore Bonajuto (Catania1963). Cm 30x40. Signed on the back ...

mixed media on canvas painting depicting Etna. Salvatore Bonajuto (Catania1963). Cm 30x40. Signed on the back Salvatore Bonajuto 2020. Opera without the frame.

Bonajuto Salvatore was born in Catania in 1963, in the late seventies, he takes part in his first collective exhibitions with works in charcoal and paintings since the early eighties. In the nineties he won a prize during an extemporaneous of paintings organized by the municipality of Mascalucia (CT) and one of his works was acquired by the municipality itself. In 2001, he restored and returned to public use the Bonajuto Chapel, Byzantine, inherited from his ancestors and his property. His paintings and his watercolors, depicting evocative landscapes of Sicily or forms of abstract expressionism, have landed in the US, many European countries and its large work is exhibited in the pavilion of Cardiology of the hospital in Catania. There is a growing audience of fans who visit his house and his garden art in Mascalucia, where he lives and works.
Those of Bonajuto are glimpses, denoting landscapes of the subjective dimension of a concrete and metaphorical vision of great expressive value. Each of the elements represented, both natural and architectural, are monograms that contain the essence of a life aesthetic and psychological that lead the viewer into that dreamlike dimension that allows you to escape from the world while inhabiting. The use of warm colors is denoting the artist's desire to show the object for what it is, dully lit from within, the beautiful Etna visions that make the idea of ​​the will of Bonajuto to paint the matter that It is giving form, in continuous change.