Vanessa Bonino - Vigor Bull

This terracotta sculpture by Vanessa Bonino is a vibrant exploration of the taurine form, where raw earth meets a nearly marine chromatic sensibility. The surface is characterized by a strongly material handling: grooves, impressions, and irregularities testify to the artist’s direct gesture on the clay, lending the bull’s head a pulsating, primal vitality.

The use of color breaks with naturalistic tradition: electric blue, turquoise, and emerald green shades transform the animal into a mythical or dreamlike creature. This chromatic choice, laid on in an uneven way, enhances the volumes and the muscular tensions of the muzzle and the horns. The work stands as a meeting point between the solidity of classical sculpture and the expressiveness of Italian contemporary art, evoking a force that is at once brutal and spiritual.

It will be shipped inside a solid protective wrapping with an authenticity certificate.

Vanessa Bonino (Turin, 1992) is a contemporary artist whose current research focuses on the plastic force of material sculpture. Trained in the cultural fervor of Turin, Bonino has evolved her eclectic style toward an original synthesis between ceramic tradition and digital languages.

Her latest productions testify to a deep experimentation with terracotta and glazed ceramic, where ancestral forms — such as the bull figure or the carp — are reinterpreted through low-poly geometries or expressionist models full of dynamism. Her stylistic signature is distinguished by the deft use of changing cold patinas and vitreous glazes, capable of transforming earth into surfaces vibrant with light and color.

Addressing themes related to nature and the metamorphosis of matter, Bonino creates works that are at once solid and fluid, inviting the viewer to reflect on the boundary between the archaic and the future. Her steady rise in the Italian contemporary art scene is confirmed by an ever more solid presence in private collections and dynamic exhibition contexts.