Raffaele Cornaggia is an Italian artist, born in Cosio Valtellino, has distinguished himself through his narrative art of futuristic worlds. From simple objects of common use left to die and rust, Cornaggia exhumes the soul of every valve of every screw, of every bolt, by taking on the burden of “Mater Unica” giving nobility and infusing new life back to the useful things that man has inexorably discarded because they are lost in value and use.

Cornaggia’s Art does not stop at today, it remains indelible in the present, in the future, in our minds. Infinite elaborations of objects that have lost their function return to assume a superior and majestic imaginative role, they take on dreamlike appearances, they float in the cosmic imagination, they mock and deceive even the Artist who observes and can’t rest from hearing screeching of iron and cries and howls and yelps, clicking and hoarse thundering puffs of metal gears.

‘Objects fascinate me; I talk to them, I stop to think about who used them, touched them, their history.
My works are unique, assembled only with screws and bolts, without the use of a welding machine. In this genre I am the only one in the world.

The mere and simplistic representation of reality, however, did not excite me and I found correspondence in the crazy visions of Salvador Dalì, my mentor, the one who whipped my imagination; it gave birth in me to a passion for form and composition’.

The project Scraps World, was born from the waste of human civilisation; he is a creative person who, in cathartic days, has achieved wonderful ‘things’, which intrigue, often provoke, amuse, invite reflection; works that discards can never be. 

In 2016 the “Scraps World Educational” project was born with the aim of carrying out educational workshops on how to create works with waste in student classes. The project enters various Italian schools of all levels, also expatriating in Germany, at the Munich European School.In Indonesia and Nepal, with the collaboration of EduCab and W.W.F., school children are making manifesto-works with rubbish collected along the beaches.

EXHIBITIONS

– 2014 SOLO EXHIBITION IN MORBEGNO IN ITALY

– 2014 WINNING WORK EXHIBITION IN CAIRO AT THE PERMANENT MUSEUM OF MILAN

– 2014 HONORARY DIPLOMA AS FINALIST “CAIRO EDITORE ART AWARD”

– 2014 PARTICIPATION “LOONEY UNITED FESTIVAL” IN SOFIA IN BULGARIA

– 2015 “I RECYCLE YOU” AT THE EXPOSITION BUILDING IN LUGANO IN SWITZERLAND

– 2015 THIRD PLACE SCARPATETTI ARTE IN SONDRIO IN ITALY

– 2015 “CELESTE PRIZE” AWARD

– 2016 PERSONAL EXHIBITION AT MVSA OF SONDRIO ITALY

– 2016 FINALIST NOVICELLI-VEROLANUOVA AWARD IN BRESCIA ITALY

– 2016 EXHIBITION OF COMPARTMENTS AT LARIO FIERE IN ERBA (COMO) IN ITALY

– 2018 INTERNATIONAL SONDRIO FESTIVAL WITH PERSONAL EXHIBITION AND CREATION OF SYMBOL WORKS OF THE EVENT IN SONDRIO IN ITALY

– 2019 PARTICIPATION WITH “FFULL METAL PHOENIX” AT THE “BEAUTIFUL DAY” AT THEATER DAL VERME IN MILAN IN ITALY

– 2019 INTERNATIONAL SONDRIO FESTIVAL WITH PERSONAL EXHIBITION AND CREATION OF SYMBOL WORKS OF THE EVENT IN SONDRIO IN ITALY

– 2020 PARTICIPATION ITALIAN VANITY ART EXHIBITION AT THE CARTOON ART GALLERY AT DUBAI IN THE ARAB EMIRATES

– 2020 SOLO EXHIBITION AT THE S. ANTONIO CLOISTER OF MORBEGNO IN ITALY

– 2021 PERSONAL EXHIBITION AT THE MILAN DESIGN WEEK