MEDUSA, LA BELLEZZA RINNEGATA Sculpture

Tiziano Bonanni, Florence, 23 May 1967. In 1984 Bonanni was awarded a Diploma as Master of Art in the Pictorial Decoration section of the Florence National Institute of Art. Here, in 1986, he then graduated from the Two- Year Course in Specialization in the same discipline, concluding his studies in 1990 at the Florence Academy of Fine Arts, in the painting section directed by Gustavo Giulietti. As a very young student, he supplemented his course of studies by frequenting the studios of the most important Tuscan masters, architects and artists of the post-war period, such as Silvio Loffredo, Pietro Annigoni, Cecco Ceccherini, Mario Calderai, Pier Niccolò Berardi, and Piero Tredici. Having completed his academic studies, he worked as private teacher and on projects in the field of furnishing accessories, ceramics, printed fabrics for wearing apparel, fashion accessories and designer jewellery for such famous Italian brands as Richard Ginori and Roberto Cavalli. In 1997 he was a founding member of “Rossotiziano - RST ART ACADEMY”, an artistic cultural association headquartered in Florence, which he now directs and coordinates as artistic director. In the same year, he was awarded the “Fiorino d’argento” for artistic merit in Palazzo Vecchio’s Hall of the Five Hundred on the occasion of the XV “Premio Firenze”, along with other outstanding figures in art and guests of honour such as Franco Zeffirelli and Fosco Maraini. His close ties to the history of Florence have always been distinctive of his style, where 15th-century spatial order evolves toward a tenser, more instable contemporary dimension. In 1999, at the tenth edition of “Etruriarte” held at Venturina in the Province of Livorno, he received First Prize in the painting section. With this recognition, he began to collaborate with such leading collectors as Tiziano Forni with his gallery in Bologna, and with such renowned Italian galleries as “GAMeC - Centro Arte Moderna” in Pisa, taking his place beside the leading Tuscan masters and artists most representative of Italian painting along with Pietro Annigoni, Renato Guttuso, Salvatore Fiume, Antonio Bueno, Tono Zancanaro, Ernesto Treccani, Aligi Sassu and others. In 2005 the monograph Linea di Confine [Border Line] an annotated catalogue edited by the art historian Nicola Micieli, was presented at the Palagio di Parte Guelfa in Florence.