Background
Victor Bonato was born in 1934, in Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.
Victor Bonato was born in 1934, in Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.
Bonato studied wall painting at the Kölner Werkschulen from 1956 to 1961 and spent several years of study in the United States.
Along with Joachim Bandau, Victor was a co-founder of the Cologne-based artist group K-66. In 1966 he began his freelance work as an artist, especially with socially critical pictorial works. In 1969, Bonato worked on glass mirror deformations under the aspect of irritation of visual and behavioral habits. Since 1974 he has been teaching adult education.
In the prison Siegburg Victor Bonato offered creative work for young offenders in 1975. Four years later, three-dimensional mirror objects and glass mirror torsions were created. In 1982 Bonato dealt with the primal phenomenon of polarity. In a two-year period, he received the 1st prize at the flag festival on the occasion of the first Bonn Art Week. In 1984, together with Joachim Bandau, he created the Troisdorf city gates, which were set up at the end of the pedestrian zone in Alt-Troisdorf.
In 1987 Victor received a lectureship in the Department of Art and Design at the Bergische Universität-Gesamthochschule Wuppertal. Since 1991 he has been dealing with paraffin and wax works. In 1993 he was awarded the August Macke Medal in Bonn, two years later the Ida Gerhardi Prize. Since 1994, Victor Bonato's works with shredded Deutsche Mark banknotes have been produced under the titles "Wertewandel" and "Lohn der Arbeit." He currently lives and works in Niederkassel.
Victor Bonato adheres to the artistic traditions of Op Art and Minimalism.
Bonato is a member of the West German and German Artists' Associations. Moreover, he is a co-founder of the artist group K-66.
