We are proud to announce the coming exhibition of new works in mixed media by Cecco Bonanotte, a leading Italian sculptor who was awarded the sculpture field of The 24th Praemium Imperiale last year. The portraits by Photographer Alessandra Maria Bonanotte are displayed together.

Cecco Bonanotte have made a lot of bronze sculptures for decades, including monumental works such as the bronze portal for the new entrance to the Vatican Museums [2000] and the bronze portal for the Musee du Luxembourg in Paris [2006]. And he is making wood carving recently. Bonanotte grew up with wood and chisel in his father’s laboratory, and says that making wood sculpture “was like to make a journey through time and going back to my childhood to the laboratory of my father.”

Photographer Alessandra Maria Bonanotte [1979- ] was born as Cecco Bonanotte’s second daughter in Rome. Mainly she takes pictures of nature, animal and plant. And she took the photographs of portrait and new works by Cecco Bonanotte for “LA FORMA POETICA,” a catalogue commemorating the receiving Praemium Imperiale last year.