Ross Bonfanti _ Lot 26

Rebecca Hossak Art Gallery

Title: Go team

About this piece: Go Team, is a concrete sculpture created with discarded stuff toys, transforming soft familiar objects into hardened figures of quiet resilience. Built in concrete, the toys lose their original function yet retain their expressions, suggesting care protection, and collective endurance. The clustered forms evoke a team or family unit-uneven, weathered, and bound together by proximity rather than perfection. By merging playthings with industrial material, the work explores themes of vulnerability, solidarity and emotional residue embedded in mass-produced objects. Go Team reflects on how tenderness persists even comfort is stripped away and survival becomes a shared effort.

Dimensions: Larger dog 9" x 6"x 10" / Smaller dogs 5" x 3" x 5"

Medium: Concrete, toy parts

Value: $950

Date: 2025

Ross is a Postwar and contemporary artist known for his innovative conceptual sculptures. His works explore the relationship between human life and the natural world reimagining the doll portrait through the weight and permanence of cement. Bonfanti’s sculptures are characterized by their use of concrete, hardware material and found soft toys all collected in Toronto. His art is eagerly sought by major collectors in America and the UK, and he has work in several public and corporate collections in Canada, as well as the Hirschorn Museum, Smithsonian Institute and Boca Raton museum. Bonfanti’s works has been featured in over 50 art fairs since 2003 and are collected by art lovers around the world.