Rai5, a documentary on Giosetta Fioroni premieres on Art Night

Dedicated to Giosetta Fioroni is Art Night airing on Rai 5 on Friday, March 11, at 9:15 p.m. in prime time. The theme is that of the broken rules that give life to much of twentieth-century art. Rules of form, of cultural references, the rules of conventions. Neri Marcorè, host of Art Night, thus tells how art hides under the most irregular forms.

Art Night opens with Giosetta Fioroni. Pop Sentimentale. From a subject by Didi Gnocchi a documentary by Sabina Fedeli directed by Gabriele Raimondi. Giosetta Fioroni is the last exponent of the Piazza del Popolo school, and she is also the only woman in the group that was the Italian response to Pop Art. The documentary traces her life as an artist rediscovered internationally with a series of exhibitions and meetings in Rome, Moscow, Paris, the Veneto countryside and Milan, where a major retrospective was held in spring 2018 at the Museo del Novecento. Through Fioroni’s memories, interviewed in her studio and home in Rome, the audience will relive a season of Italian art and culture. Giosetta tells about Mario Schifano and the other artists of Piazza del Popolo, but also Federico Fellini and Marcel Duchamp. Over all the memory of her love for her companion, writer Goffredo Parise, with whom she traversed the social and ideological conflicts of those years with lightness and lucidity. The portrait of the artist is enriched by various documentary and archive sources and is completed with interviews with friends, artists, critics, and curators who met her and shared affections and passions with her.

The evening continues with Giuseppe Sansonna ’s documentary entitled Ombre elettriche, produced by Rai Cultura, with scientific advice from Alessandro Masi. Protagonists are the style and art of the 1960s as seen from two different points of view: Rome and London. Featured are Franco Angeli, Tano Festa, Mario Schifano. Three visionary and restless painters, linked by a strong syntony, capable of disrupting the Italian art scene of that decade.

Rai5, a documentary on Giosetta Fioroni premieres on Art Night

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