Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1972. After graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts, she immediately began working as assistant to important teachers in Argentina, later transferring to Pietrasanta to improve her skills in sculpture and painting.Veronica participates in different exhibitions and symposiums in Italy, Spain, France, Switzerland, Germany, Argentina, Bolivia and USA.

 

Distinguished in the sobriety of form and spontaneous execution, all matter has a hidden spirit that lets itself be captured only by those who know how to master it. Veronica proves to be versatile and easygoing in the search of an ideal style of her own imagination and emotion.

 

The children of Veronica Fonzo know the immensity of the solitary and unlimited places of their own fantasy, just as she knows the solitude of the infinite geography of her Argentina.

 

The figures carry in their eyes the astonishment of a nature that tries to keep its secrets: a child who remains motionless in front of nothing and is completely alone in his fantasy, it is here where he invents an ideal instrument: the wings or a boat, or a cart…to explore the sky, or sail in the sea of his cosmic childhood, because in a child is the infinite.Fonzo’s children have little room for joy, being pervaded by a sense of desolation and sadness: the astonished and never smiling faces suggest a childhood abandoned and silent, but also candid and innocent, which echoes the famous portraits of children by Xavier Bueno.

 

The centaur figure refers to Chiron, the centaur who educated Apollo, who took him under his wing and taught him the art of music, lyre, archery, medicine and prophecy. A great healer, astrologer, and respected oracle, Chiron was said to be the first among centaurs and highly revered as a teacher and tutor and this representation in Veronica’s work is to help her children grow.

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