CAMeC of Spezia dedicates a major exhibition to Giosetta Fioroni

From October 9, 2022 to February 26, 2023, CAMeC - Modern and Contemporary Art Center of Spezia pays homage to Giosetta Fioroni, one of the most important living artists of the second half of the Italian 20th century, with a major exhibition. The exhibition traces her entire career, from the experiences of the 1960s linked to the Scuola di Piazza del Popolo to the present.

Promoted by the Municipality of La Spezia and produced by CAMeC in collaboration with the Goffredo Parise and Giosetta Fioroni Foundation and the MARCOROSSI artecontemporanea gallery, the solo exhibition will be inaugurated on the occasion of the 18th AMACI Giornata del Contemporaneo.

The title, Giosetta’s Little Big Heart, is inspired by theautobiography written in 2013 by Fioroni herself and published by Corraini editore on the occasion of the exhibition that celebrated her at the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome.

In more than fifty years of her career, Giosetta Fioroni has narrated, through the languages proper to Pop Art, the bonds, relationships and feelings that unite human beings. Curated by Eleonora Acerbi and Cinzia Compalati, the exhibition will also be an opportunity to celebrate the 90th birthday of a determined and nonconformist artist, among the few female presences at the Rosati Café.

“The setting of Fioroni’s visual universe,” writes Gemma Gulisano, curator of the Goffredo Parise and Giosetta Fioroni Foundation, “is the Teatrone. Presented on the occasion of the XLV Venice Art Biennial in 1993, it now houses old and new works that the artist arranges as if inside a showcase overlooking the sofa in his studio. Among the cardboard theaters, ceramic theaters, drawings attached to the large theater and paintings hung or juxtaposed on the walls, one large work catches the eye of many: Ramo d’oro (Golden Branch). Two trunks, arranged like columns of an architectural portal, open a passage to a path not yet traced; the background dematerializes, letting the viewer’s gaze converge on a small detail protruding at the base of the panel, a small house. Executed in 2014 during an artistic collaboration with the Valentino fashion house, the work was selected by fashion designer Maria Grazia Chiuri for a video shot with the artist. Wrapped in bubble wrap, Golden Branch prepares to leave the studio and the capital city to reach the halls of the Modern and Contemporary Art Center of La Spezia. Everything is almost ready to celebrate an artist without an apostrophe, as Fioroni herself likes to call herself, with an anthological exhibition dedicated to her.”

The solo exhibition will be divided into four rooms on the second floor: the first room will be devoted to research from the 1960s and 1970s, the second to works from the 1980s and 1990s, the third to work on ceramics, and the last to works from 2000 to the present. The main works include, in addition to Ramo d’oro (Golden Branch), some silver papers(Venus, 1968; The Hat, 1966; Liberty in the Stars, 1970), Nudo di Rossana (1965), Il colle dei sette venti (1997), and the nucleus of ceramics from the Bottega Gatti in Faenza, including Clothes inspired by Jane Austen ’s heroines (exhibited at GNAM in 2013) and glazed majolica dedicated to tales of fairies and distant realms.

Most of the works on display come from the Fondazione Parise - Fioroni, chaired by Francesco Adornato, Davide Servadei’s Bottega Gatti and collectors from MARCOROSSI artecontemporanea, the artist’s historic gallery of reference.

For info: http://camec.museilaspezia.it

Hours: Tuesday through Sunday 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed Mondays. Full admission 5 euros, reduced 4 euros, special reduced 3.50 euros.

Image: Giosetta Fioroni, Mi è sfilata una scarpa (1969; mixed media on paper, 100 x 70 cm; private collection)

CAMeC of Spezia dedicates a major exhibition to Giosetta Fioroni

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