Rediscovering Bona de Mandiargues, an important surrealist whose story has never been reconstructed
Illaria Baratta, Finestre sull’ Arte: The Best of Italian Art
September 2023
When one speaks of Surrealist women, one thinks of Leonora Carrington, Meret Oppenheim, Dora Maar, Remedios Varo, but among them there is another, Bona de Mandiargues (Rome, 1926 - Paris, 2000), whose singular story has never previously been reconstructed. The first major retrospective devoted precisely to this artist, entitled Bona de Mandiargues,opened a few days ago at the Nivola Museum in Orani (Nuoro) . Reframing the World. We let the curators Giuliana Altea, Antonella Camarda, Luca Cheri and Caterina Ghisu tell us a little more about Bona de Mandiargues and their exhibition project.