Tracce d'Argento Giosetta Fioroni’s artworks from 1960 to 1968
Venue: Via della Mercede 12/a Rome, main stairway, 3rd floor
Duration: From the 26th of May to the 6th of July 2005
Opening hours: Monday to Friday 10:00 - 13:00, 16:30 - 19:30
Curated by: Benedetta Carpi De Resmini
After more than fifteen years from the last Fioroni’s solo exhibition, The Galleria dell’Oca presents a selection of artworks that goes from the silver canvas produced in the Sixties, to the paper artworks of the same period, up to the movies made in 1967.
Giosetta Fioroni begins to paint in 1950, but she distances herself from the Informal movement already at the beginning of the Sixties. Such as her colleagues Franco Angeli, Mario Schifano and Tano Festa, she took inspiration from the images of the metropolitan mood and transferred them onto canvas. Although Italian artists were interested in what American artists were producing in that period, the Italian artists (Scuola di Piazza del Popolo) decided to distance themselves from American Pop Art and from a daily mimetic translation. Giosetta Fioroni does a precise and manual painting transcription using a single frame or a photograph taken from a magazine or either her own drawing transferring them onto canvas.
From the very first silver ideograms on paper, like “Lampadina. Interno familiare” (“Electric light. Homely space”), 1960, to the silver enamel on canvas. The images fixed on the white canvas are, as Giuliano Briganti wrote, “fleeting marks of faces and gestures, glances, shadows of moments which go away and never come back. These fragments fix themselves for a while on your eye; fragments stolen from time, atoms of infinity and are never stable organism of our daily life. Presences that once stopped are already remembrances”.
The artworks have a temporal structure, at a first glance the viewer is lead to a slow and progressive reading. The Silver fixes the image creating a slide on the white enamel of the canvas. The snowy whiteness of the surface shows some evocative signs.
“Bambini” (“Children”), 1963-1964, for example, one of the first silver works realized on canvas, reminds of an old group picture, whose faded image brings back the signs of time passing through.
The oblique inclination of the image lights a dialogue with the past. The immediate mark of the present leaves a trace which remove the whole image from real time.
In the last room are presented some movies, made in 1967, as a conclusion of the artistic researches made in those years. These movies have been rarely seen by the most part of the public. (“Gioco” / Game 16 mm b/n
6 min.; Coppie / Couples, 16 mm b/n, 15 min; “Solitudine femminile” / Female Loneliness”, 8 mm, b/n 8 min; “Goffredo”, 8 mm b/n 6 min).
In “Gioco” a series of characters are moving in a mansion garden: the artist Pino Pascali is the protagonist. Pascali and his playful and irreverent way of being, become the central motor of the whole action.
In “Coppie” and in “Goffredo”, the tale is narrated by a series of explicit images. In the first movie two different couples are brought together: Talita and Paul Getty Jr., and Silvia and Umberto Bignardi. “Goffredo” instead, is an homage to the writer, and artist’s husband, Goffredo Parise.
“Solitudine femminile”, may be the most precise movie from a technical point of view. Basically is an image transcription of the artist paintings made in that period. The movie camera shoots the face of the poetess Rosanna Tofanelli, who is in front of the mirror. This is an explicit allusion to the secular dialectics between fiction and reality, art and life. Then the female image taken from a magazine is shot on the protagonist’s breast, her painful face reappears by frames. Each single image comes out through continuous counterpoints which shows two different but after all similar realities, that belong to the female world.
Works in exhibition:
ROOM 1
1. Immagine del silenzio, 1964, enamel on canvas, 180 x 80 cm
2. Ragazza TV, 1964, enamel on paper, 70 x 100 cm
3. La Danza, 1966 enamel on canvas, 140 x 120 cm
4. Variazioni sul tema, 1966, enamel on paper, 70 x 100 cm
ROOM 2
5. Lampadina. Interno familiare, 1960, enamel on paper, 70 x 50
6. Lampadina, 1961, enamel on paper, 70 x 50
7. Bambini, 1961, enamel on paper, 35 x 50 cm
8. La fidanzata, 1961, enamel on paper, 50 x 70 cm
9. L’amore, 1965, Pencil, and enamel on paper, 70 x 100 cm
10. Bambina con cappello di paglia, 1967, enamel on canvas, 180 x 80 cm
11. Ragazza TV, 1967 enamel on canvas, 70 x 50 cm
12. La Spiaggia, 1968 enamel on canvas, 100 x 100 cm
ROOM 3
13. Bambini, 1963-1964, enamel on canvas, 100 x 200 cm
14. Malone e i suoi amici, 1964, enamel on paper, 70 x 100 cm
15. Bambini in attesa, 1965, enamel on paper, 70 x 100 cm
16. Bambino solo, 1966 enamel on canvas, 100 x 200 cm
ROOM 4
17. Goffredo, 1965, enamel on paper, 70 x 100 cm
Movies
Solitudine femminile, 1967
Gioco, 1967
Goffredo, 1967
Coppie, 1967
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