Bonnani Claudio

Claudio Bonanni

Claudio Bonanni was born in Tivoli (Rome) on 29th September 1960. From 1980 to 1986, he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, then he moved to Paris to study painting under the guidance of Pio Santini, of Tivoli, who had moved to the French capital fifty year before

Here he deepened the knowledge of the Impressionists, first of all Pissarro.

Gone back to Rome, he attended the Swedish artist Ernest Kronberg and Lauri Leppanen, who were Oscar Kokoschka’s favourite pupil. In 1989 Claudio Bonanni went to Udine, where he met the master Fred Pittino and had the opportunity of going often to his studio. In Friuli he has discovered the mountains. A new, great passion has ensued.

The mountain landscape, painted in its seasonal changes, has taken up the painter and it has been added to the native landscapes, portraits and sea landscapes. Here some of his numerous collective and one-man art exhibitions: Villa d’ Este (Tivoli), Roman Gallery, Mauterndorf Castle (Austria), Graf Bobby Salon in Vienna, Italian Pavillon (Tokyo), The Atene Culture Institute, Ancient Arsenals (Amalfi), Gallery “ La Fenice “ (Udine), the Municipal Gallery “Le Logge“ (Assisi), the Sappada Municipal Gallery, the Trieste Municipal Gallery and the old Church S. Michele Arcangelo (Tivoli).

Every exhibition always met with outstanding success of critics and public. In these last few years he has formed significant friendships with some important Masters, such as Franco Polizzi in Rome, Ottavio Mazzonis in Torino and Ugo Guidi in Bologna.