Piero Boni

About artist

Piero Boni was born in Senigallia, from a family from Bergamo, 84 years ago.
A notary all his life, although he has been painting since he was a boy, he began to devote himself exclusively to painting as a self-taught artist only when he approached retirement - already as a child, however, he dreamed of becoming a painter. A passion, painting, which over the years he put aside to embrace that of the guitar and then to find a job - which as he himself said - would allow him to have economic stability (given the traditional education given to him). Piero Boni, however, in this regard has commented <<That in the end, who knows, there is a link between the profession of notary and art. The fathers of Titian, Leonardo and Masaccio were all notaries. Perhaps it is an activity that pushes to evasion>>.
For some time now, he has found an outlet and space for evasion, in the large oil paintings on canvas of imaginary planets, called Giò and Artù. One more similar to the Earth, the other "more evolved and elevated" but both portrayed with few signs, geometric figures and color fields. Planets that have been defined by the critics at the same time familiar and distant, dreamlike and concrete. Piero Boni's works are also characterized by titles, often very long and that seem to converse with the represented, and that for their author help to reach the conclusion. His vision is inclined towards beauty, light, dream, abstraction, transcendence, joy and for this reason his artistic works are devoid of any reference to anxiety and, instead, rather inclined to humor.
Piero Boni explained that his works <<affirm the continuation of life after death on planets of the imagination; at first we meet planet Gio, a place of rest and passage towards planet Arthur which is the last station of a long and happy ascent. It is the vision of a world that "is not here", another dimension of existence (...)>>.
Piero Boni's paintings, in spite of a certain abstraction fused with figuration, want to induce to interpret abstract forms as naturalistic "alien" representations of flowers and plants illustrated as if they were living and conscious, so much so that Professor Vittorio Sgarbi has underlined << Boni's figurative language does not represent nature, but evokes it through the institution of a coded code that filters it until it reaches the maximum graphic essence of its aspect>>. Piero Boni therefore wants to create a language with his forms, to narrate with it verisimilar or fantastic stories - continues Sgarbi - or to transmit particular emotions to others...They are forms, to say it like Kandinskij, that have an internal sound: every triangle, be it acute, rectangular or equilateral, has its own spiritual perfume. Every form has an inner content. The form is therefore the expression of the inner content.
Boni's cosmic vision refers to the most advanced scientific theories on the nature of the universe, conceived as a gigantic computer of consciousness, expression of a mysterious underlying reality à la Albert Eistein and à la David Bohm.
Among the exhibitions in which Piero Boni has taken part, it is worth mentioning the Perugia Biennale in 2016, as well as those in Venice and Milan in 2017. He was and is also highly appreciated in Miami and New York.