OI Magazine - N° 32 - October 2022

COLLEZIONE ARTE CONTEMPORANEA † 2022 † 125 † ONOFRI MARIA RITA † +39 349.8318809 † mariaritaonofri@gmail.com † www.onofrimariarita.it †Maria Rita Onofri lives and works in Rome. A daughter of art, her favorite metaphor is “I was born in color” to remind herself rather than others that her mother was also a painter. Maria Rita Onofri is also a goldsmith in addition to being an esteemed painter and sculptor. The events of life and, above all, her passion brought her back to painting, to which she now devotes herself entirely. Maria Rita Onofri’s signature is also in her patented technique, used to add thickness to the painting, characterized by three-dimensional shadings and brilliance on thin metal plates, to step out of the two-dimensionality of painting and into bas-relief, revisiting it with a new perspective. Her artistic life is a quest, which continues, always enriching herself with new experiences. Taken by goldsmithing and design in several studies of engineers and architects, the artist has continued her graphic production by participating in several competitions and art awards at the international level, among which the most recent and significant are the Appio Claudio Award 2018 and the European Excellence in the Arts Award in 2019. In the same year, the artist participated in the group exhibition Mindfulness at Hoxton 253 Gallery in London, UK and the international contemporary art exhibition Off Line at the Angelica Library in Rome. Currently, small format works by the artist are on display in Boston. Scholars and art critics have written about Maria Rita Onofri’s career, including Giorgio Falossi, Paolo Levi, Sandro Serradifalco and Vittorio Sgarbi. †AL CENTRO DEL CICLONE †2014 †trowel acrylic with aluminum high relief †120 x 80 cm †RICORDI †2021 †trowel acrylic with worked copper bas-relief †65 x 90 cm

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