© Simon Kentish
The beginnings
Mattia Bonetti was first interested in fine art photography.
It featured phantasmagorical characters in cut paper from imagined decorations, which gave rise to very large format prints. In 1981, the Samia Saouma gallery, Paris, devoted its first exhibition to him.
The encounter
With Elizabeth Garouste, he constituted the most emblematic duo of designers of the end of the 20th century.
The separation
In 2001, after the retrospective dedicated to them, at the Le Grand Hornu Museum Museum (Brussels), Garouste & Bonetti parted ways. However, they continued to entrust the publishing of their creations to the gallery En Attendant les Barbares.
In 2004, he imagined the scenography of the Emile Gallée exhibition at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris.
Then his career took on an international dimension, through numerous personal exhibitions.
In 2018, he designed numerous pieces of furniture for the Mark Hotel in New York.
Exhibitions:
– 2004: “Géométries” Galerie Kréo, Paris
– 2004: “New Works”, David Gill Gallery, Londres
– 2004: Galerie Luhring Augustine, New York
– 2007: Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Bruxelles
– 2008: “New Works”, David Gill Gallery, Londres
– 2008: Galerie Italienne, Paris
– 2010: “New York”, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
– 2011: Duke & Duke, Los Angeles
– 2012: “New Works”, David Gill Gallery, Londres
– 2013: “Intérieur, extérieur”, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
– 2014: “New Works”, David Gill Gallery, Londres
– 2016: Musée des Beaux Arts, Carcassonne
– 2016: Musée des Beaux Arts, Roanne
– 2017: “New Works”, David Gill Gallery, Londres
– 2019: Galerie McClain, Houston
– 2024: Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
He regularly participates in the collective exhibitions of the gallery En Attendant les Barbares:
– 2022: “Fantasmagories”
– 2020: “Diego Giacometti Forever”
– 2015: “Masculin Pluriels”
– 2003: “Reflexions, reflections”
In 2005, he was awarded the prestigious “Best Original Design Award”.
Mattia Bonetti, in a back and forth between art and design, knows how to express a singular talent.
Without forgetting a perfect mastery of production.
