Teresa Bonaventura - Wood sculptor










Teresa Bonaventura is born in the Venice province in 1956. The daughter of a joiner, she has always found in natural wood the answer to a striving for form and its essence, the object of her research and work.
The technique of carving is something she learns on her own and which she improves to compete with other wood sculptors at ‘Symposia' in Italy and abroad.
The credit she has been given encourages her to continue her hard formal and emotional research through sculpture.
Teresa Bonaventura lives and works at Noale (Venice).
 

"Torn between spirit and matter, between figure and concept, the artist allows emotions to pervade her mind to translate them into form. There is something ecstatic, magic and absolute in her figures softly and fluently outlined. Rationality prevails when she tries new experiments, when the concept prevails over form orienting glances and emotions."
L. Majer

"The cult of antiquity, the charm of nature and her great plastic sensibility are the main features of Teresa Bonaventura's works. Her ‘Presenze' are modern Kores who witness the passing of time withdrawn in their moving inner composure. Free from stereotypes and mannerisms Teresa Bonaventura's achievement is an expressive maturity emphasised by her highly allusive and symbolic carving details."
G. Niero

   e sculture lignee di Teresa Bonaventura
 

"Torn between spirit and matter, between figure and concept, the artist allows emotions to pervade her mind to translate them into form. There is something ecstatic, magic and absolute in her figures softly and fluently outlined. Rationality prevails when she tries new experiments, when the concept prevails over form orienting glances and emotions."
L. Majer

Exhibitions:
2004 personal exhibition at Gipsoteca Canoviana, Possagno (Treviso).
2004 personal exhibition ‘Eventi 2004' Marco Polo International Airport, Venice.
2003 finalist for ‘Premio Arte 2003' Editoriale Giorgio Mondadori, Milan.
2003 ‘Simposio di scultura' on the 40th anniversary of the Vajont tragedy, Longarone, Belluno.
2003 personal exhibition at Villa Nazionale Pisani, Stra (Venice).
2001 '11 Sculptors at Centro dell'Arte Contmporanea' Torre Strozzi, Perugia.
2000 ‘International Sculpture Symposium 2000', Hojer, Denmark.
1998 ‘The Performing Sculptors of Italy', Philadelphia, USA.

txt Carlo Damiani

 

e sculture lignee di Teresa Bonaventura