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Bratsa Bonifacho is an internationally recognized artist in both Canada and Europe. His recent collection, the Habitat Pixel Series, is about visually pleasing computer viruses. Bonifacho imitates the effects of computer viruses through visual art on a canvas. As if making a computer virus look pretty as an art form will make us hate them less.

I like his monochromatic works or the ones that only use a few colours. It’s amazing to see all of the little details and shapes in his paintings. It’s even more amazing to know that he uses relatively large canvases, for example, the one above is 4.5 feet by 4.5 feet.

Bonifacho has a Masters in Fine Arts from the University of Belgrade, Serbia. He also furthered his studies in painting Europe.

Artist statement from his website:

“I communicate and express essentially non-verbal thoughts and emotions abstractly, within the discipline of formalism – through colour and shape, gesture and surface. I work in the standard oil medium, applying it to large squares and rectangles of prepared canvas. Sometimes I use encaustic for its particular luminosity and tactility; occasionally I do shaped canvases, or mixed media constructions. As a relief from the intensity of prismatic colour, I periodically explore the singular qualities of geometry, surface, gesture and sgraffito, in metallic paints. Such decisions occur within the context of extended serial planning.

The source of my art is the comprehension and channelling of strong emotions stemming from observation, current events or epiphanic memory: thoughts of environmental devastation; or blatant injustice; or peak moments of optimism and ecstacy.” -Bratsa Bonifacho