Bratsa Bonifacho's 'No Sugar Added' Solo Show Opens This November at Bau-Xi Gallery Dufferin

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This November, Bau-Xi Gallery | Dufferin is delighted to present “No Sugar Added,” the highly anticipated solo exhibition by internationally collected artist, Bratsa Bonifacho. This show will be exhibited at the gallery’s Toronto flagship location, 1384 Dufferin Street from November 7th to 28th. There will be an opening reception on November 7th from 5 pm to 8 pm with the artist in attendance.

"My choice of title ‘No Sugar Added’ refers to a paring back of frills and unnecessary adornments to reveal the power of simplicity. I have a relationship with each painting which is driven primarily by emotion.

This collection picks up from the previous ‘Celebration’ series, focusing on simplified grid structure and interrupted code-like symbology. However, while the ‘Celebration’ series focused on an overall presence of white with bright colour accents, this collection features rich, deep colours in combinations which reflect mood and intuitive impulse, emphasizing the all-encompassing importance of the present moment." - Bratsa Bonifacho

Bratsa Bonifacho is an established artist based in Vancouver, Canada. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Arts Belgrade, Serbia, and a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Belgrade School of Architecture, Belgrade, Serbia.

Bonifacho's paintings have been shown internationally, with solo exhibitions in Poland, Germany, China, the United Kingdom, and Serbia. He has had dozens of exhibitions across North America, and his work has been shown in the Pacific Northwest at Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA; Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC; Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, AK; and in Seattle at Foster/White Gallery since 2004.  His work is held in many private, corporate and permanent museum collections across the world including the Canadian Embassy in Argentina, the Museum of Modern Art, Serbia, the National Museum of Serbia, JP Morgan Asia, Tokyo, Japan, and the Department of External Affairs in Ottawa.

Internationally recognized for his deeply layered abstract paintings, an intense interest in technology, communication and cultural identity is at the forefront of his current artistic practice. Bonifacho imitates the effects of computer viruses and worms by scrambling letters and messages in his large-scale oil paintings. His work carries the elegance of programming code and indicates the deep layers of chaos and confusion caused by viruses, conflict, and crisis.