Andrea Bonazzi CV

Andrea Bonazzi CV
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Viale Ansaldo 6/5/A 16137 Genova GE Italy
email: [email protected]
website: web.tiscalinet.it/sculptus
blog: in-tenebris-scriptus.blogspot.it
www.facebook.com/intenebrissculptus
www.linkedin.com/pub/andrea-bonazzi/28/a7a/151
Born in 1968, Andrea Bonazzi lives in Genoa, Italy. Strongly interested in the weird and fantastic in
arts and literature, he began in the late eighties to create his first sculptures and illustrations, focusing
his works mainly on the literary world of H. P. Lovecraft. He also works as English-Italian literary
translator, and collaborates with magazines, publishers, and e-zines as a columnist and essay writer.
Scenography.
Crazy Time, season 1987-1988, for Videomusic TV channel (Italy).
Sculptures.
Artworks based on Weird and Lovecraftian themes. Carved briar tobacco-pipes. Unique pieces
carved in sandstone or slatestone; other sculptures in plaster modelling paste with stones, glasses, metal
details and insertions; mixed media and other materials.
Exhibitions:
Paure – Verona, Italy (1998).
L’eros nel fantastico – Florence, Italy (2000).
Venerdì Gotici – Lavagna, GE, Italy (2000).
Saga 2001 – Republic of San Marino (2001).
Incubi Lovecraftiani, Il Futuro In Gioco – Milan, Italy (2002).
Acquicomics IV – Acqui Terme, AL, Italy (2003).
Egiexpo – Genoa, Italy (2003).
The H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival, On Screen Art Show – Portland, OR, U.S.A. (2003).
Visioni Lovecraftiane – Staranzano, GO, Italy (2004).
Illustrations.
Photomontages and graphic elaborations, mainly portraits of classic literary horror masters, mixed
with his own artworks, tablets and sculptures on fantasy background. Drawings and mixed media also.
Many collaborations with web-magazines and websites worldwide centered on H. P. Lovecraft and
Weird Fiction.
Andrea Bonazzi has designed in 2003 the official award plate’s logo for the Premio Lovecraft, Italian
literary horror award.
Books:
H. P. Lovecraft: Sculptus in Tenebris, edited by Michele Tetro, Nuova Metropolis, Novara
2001.
H. P. Lovecraft: Storia e Cronologia del Necronomicon, edited by Sebastiano Fusco, Profondo
Rosso/Mondo Ignoto, Rome 2003.
Il Dio dell’Alcova, by Elvezio Sciallis, Edizioni Il Foglio, Piombino 2004.
La Casa Stregata di Fulham Road e Altri Orrori, by Jean Ray, Profondo Rosso, Rome 2007.
Narrativa completa. Volumen II, by H. P. Lovecraft, Editorial Valdemar, Madrid 2008.
The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales, University of Wales Press, Cardiff 2008.
Lovecraft e le ombre, by Frank Belknap Long, Profondo Rosso, Rome 2010.
Kuturu shinwa zensho (Lovecraft: A Look Behind the Cthulhu Mythos) by Lin Carter, Tokio
Sogensha, Tokio 2011.
Aklonomicon, edited by Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. and Ivan McCann, Aklo Press, Northampton
2011.
Strange Epiphanies, by Peter Bell, The Swan River Press, Dublin 2012.
Il libro dei gatti, by H. P. Lovecraft, Il Cerchio, Rimini 2012.
Sargasso, Vol. 1, edited by Sam Gafford and S.T. Joshi, Ulthar Press, Warren, RI 2013.
Magazines:
Yorick Fantasy Magazine (Yorick Fantasy); Letture (San Paolo); Mystero (Mondo Ignoto);
Horror: la rivista dell’insolito (Mondo Ignoto); Power Zone (Sonnen Verlag); Studi
Lovecraftiani (Dagon Press); Necro (Cagliostro ePress); Innsmouth Magazine (Innsmouth Free
Press); The Lovecraft eZine (Lovecraft eZine).
Writings.
Editor for the Italian web-magazine HorrorMagazine (2005). Editor for the Italian horror quarterly
magazine Necro (2007-2008) and La Tela Nera web network (2006-2009). Editor for Splattergramma
web-magazine (2009-2010). Chief editor for Weirdletter web-magazine (2010 until now). Editor for the
Italian horror quarterly magazine Hypnos: rivista di letteratura weird e fantastica (2011 until now).
Writings for magazines:
Studi Lovecraftiani (Dagon Press); Necro (Cagliostro ePress); Hypnos: rivista di letteratura
weird e fantastica (Hypnos Edizioni); Machenalia (The Friends of Arthur Machen).
Writings for web:
HorrorMagazine; La Tela Nera; In Tenebris Scriptus; Splattergramma; Weirdletter.
Translations:
Cagliostro ePress; Dagon Press; Hypnos Edizioni.
Edited books:
Il villaggio nero. Racconti fantastici, by Stefan Grabiński, Edizioni Hypnos, Milan, 2012.
Interviews.
“TLO Member Interview: Andrea Bonazzi”, in Thomas Ligotti Online (2008)
www.ligotti.net/showthread.php?t=2234
“Andrea Bonazzi, Master of the Weird”, in Swords Against the Outer Dark (2010)
swordandsanity.blogspot.com/2010/09/interview-andrea-bonazzi-master-of.html
“Interview: Andrea Bonazzi”, in Innsmouth Free Press (2011).
www.innsmouthfreepress.com/?p=10113

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