Cardi Black Box presents an exceptional exhibition project: a show entirely dedicated to design, born from the growing contamination between contemporary art and other creative disciplines.

An international project that will stage for the first time in Italy a solo show of the Swiss artist-designer Mattia Bonetti. A selection of works, all limited edition, will be displayed among which four new pieces realized exclusively for Cardi Black Box.

Mattia Bonetti is a versatile figure, a creative artist who demonstrates in his works a great draughtmanship in drawing and a remarkable skill in the passage from the model to its three-dimensional realization.

The sketches of his creations are the fundamental starting point for the realization of his design pieces yet the single plates are in themsleves incredible works of art, as their exhibition in prestigious international venues has demonstrated.

For his creations Bonetti uses the most different materials: metals, different essences of wood, plastic materials and resins in a constant and bizarre contamination “between antique craftsmanship  and contemporary technology”.

Each of his creations are indeed the result of multidisciplinary investigations developed during many years in different fields like photography.

His most significant projects are of different nature like the two tramlines realized in Montpellier, the liturgical furniture created for the cathedral of Metz, and the Hotel Cristal Champs Elysées in Paris that with their peculiar aesthetics, have made them at the same time unique and recognizable, demonstrating a perfect example of contamination of styles, material, colours in a continue exchange between creativity, craftsmanship and technical innovation. Features that Mattia Bonetti declares: “There isn't a single thread of thoughts in my creations, I continuously have different inspirations. Being able to reinvent yourself every time can be dangerous but offers the possibility for a new birth, a vital need for me”.