MATTIA BONETTI

‘FLORIDA’

22 June - 23 July 2023

New Pieces from the master of gesture, Mattia Bonetti the Paris-based designer Mattia Bonetti doesn’t create collections of work. Instead, he dreams up individual pieces which emerge fully-formed from his fantastical mind and onto the pages of his sketch book. From there, they are translated directly from free-hand drawing into a three-dimensional reality, with no loss of the original idea.

The lozenge series is based on a repetitive diamond pattern, adapted differently for each piece. “The lozenge is a geometric pattern, but an especially dynamic one,” explains Bonetti. “Although it is made of straight lines, to the eye it is made of two triangles – one a mirror image of the other – which gives it a particular energy. You could almost say it’s a two-dimensional pattern with a three-dimensional effect.”

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“I like to think that this series is simple and sober,” says Bonetti. “The use of materials is minimal, clear and exacting but there are still intriguing flourishes that make these things you can live with for a long time.”

Like a magician, the results emerge from the sleight of hand that underpins his oeuvre, as he combines these many facets of inspiration. First, Bonetti makes exquisite drawings of pieces, then these are translated exactly into three-dimensional form. “I continue to have new ideas all the time,’ says Bonetti, “and although they might use the same language, I always twist things to create difference.”