Take a sheet of cork and make two parallel incisions infinitesimally close to one another. Slice, slice. Now tease out the sliver in-between, leaving a line that is a vein by its very nature, feeding life to fragments, as well as a boundary between parts. Keep cutting until you have so many lines that shapes form within shapes. Your eye will see different potentialities in the complex patterns, maze-like, forms revealing themselves and getting lost again, in and out of focus.

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Opening her first solo exhibition ‘A Monstrous Fruit’ at SETAREH Gallery in Berlin, the London-based, Italian artist spoke to SLEEK about the meaning behind the exhibition title, the idea of “grotesque” and why we should all learn Kung Fu.

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Bea Bonafinis Auseinandersetzung mit griechischer Mythologie und Dichtung mündet in ihrer jüngsten Ausstellung bei Setareh Berlin in Werken, die den Rahmen klassischer Malerei in vielerlei Hinsicht sprengen. Die italienische Künstlerin arbeitet wechselnd und kombinierend mit Malerei, Zeichnung, Skulptur, Keramik, Textil und Installation. Die Schau „A Monstrous Fruit“ spiegelt ihren offenen Umgang mit Material und Form allein in den weitestgehend aufgebrochenen Formen der klassischen, rechteckigen Leinwand wider.