One of the complications presented by the work of Bonechi is its absolute singularity, an assumption that makes it a small and remote island, difficult to discover in the vast ocean of contemporary art. …

Lorenzo associates himself with Byzantine and fourteenth-century Tuscan painting and takes them to the category of universals, in a fruitful dialogue with the past, albeit embedded in the present. His truly radical work, openly coexisting with the serenity and harmony of his old masters, point us to a rhetoric-free humanism, with a creative flair of only apparent simplicity.

Having noted the absence of the divine and loss of contact with nature in our time, it is in the character of his profound humanism to recapture the divine fluctuating in the human soul or, more adequately, to rediscover the unity of humankind and the divine.

His work, imbued with a serene silence, at times achieves the category of a revelation, almost a theophany. …

Carles Marco, Lorenzo Bonechi. Delle opere radicali, text in the catalog