How many doctors, engineers and lawyers, from Gadda to Baj, from Burri to Fergola have given a scope to painting and literature during the last decades, is easy to see, and especially how their being artists has not been less than their blending in with other activities that they even carried out with a strong presence.
This is to show how every strong impulse felt by each man in his soul draws him towards beauty, the need to find and interpret a paradise on earth that is a common theme to each artist that wishes, with words and his own hands, to recreate that unique masterpiece that comes close to expressing a part of the Absolute. It is the infinite need of man that since ancient times has wanted to immortalize the creation and what surrounds him.
This is what Ernesto Bonera’s paintings stem from, a doctor in the hospital of Brescia that, as a self-taught man wished to find new ways to communicate with his poetry and with colors, that is oil painting. In a book entitled “Lo stupore d’essere” (The wonder of being) of 1994 that was then a published volume, we read “”before the day dies behind the hill tops the last yearning of ecstasy in the silent hour, beats with the wonder of being”. Here the author totally confesses the feeling he has from ecstasy and from the images of nature. It should be said that Bonera has a great, indeed very great, sensitivity, and this is already much, or better still is already the strong beginning of what remains of that over and beyond feeling, that is the colored translation of the world carefully observed.

Landscapes and flowers on the canvas, almost all from Lombardy, have a Manzonian wave, they tell and describe the towns and lakes of Lombardy, captured in a majestic glimpse that shows the novelty of the vision. These cuts, glimpses, corners, seem to be a very strong feature of Bonera the artist.
Then the varicolored light enters, with its shadows and contrasts; up to the colors that are spotted with green, red and yellow in the landscape described in an impressionistic manner.
The magic of color and light that can be seen through the very delicate hues, the soft colors, the atmosphere as if suspended, landscapes full of magic and especially poetry that live in an unreal silence, as if suspended.
Bonera is therefore a great landscape artist, a color artist that pushes his colors towards a “clearest” type of painting because of the light, clear, clean but vivid hues of a morality that becomes congenial with the light, with the transparencies and with the truth. With all these impressions represented, the Lombard painter and also poet who for a long time has been active in Lombardy, reviews the colors of a part of Italy, celebrating the beauty that Stendhal had already found in his Italian trips, and offers us all a vision of very strong emotions, incredible technique and surprising wonder.
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