Florence, at Palazzo Medici Riccardi seventy paintings trace the career of painter Danièle Lorenzi Scotto

From December 12, 2019 to January 26, 2020, Palazzo Medici Riccardi will host in the Sale Fabiani Il colore dei miei giorni, a solo exhibition dedicated to the work of painter Danièle Lorenzi Scotto (1936), organized thanks to the support of Swiss Lab for Culture Projects, curated by Claudio Strinati and with the contribution of Cristina Acidini.

The more than 70 paintings on display will trace, mainly through portraits, the entire human and creative adventure of this artist of Italian origin, who is linked to the cultural and artistic events of the second half of the 20th century, starting in the mid-1950s in Florence itself. Here “her sensitivity and her love for the arts of the great Italian tradition,” pointed out Cristina Acidini, president of the Accademia delle arti del disegno in Florence, “led her to study in the 1950s,” under the guidance of Primo Conti. And it is to this city, to which Danièle owes so much, that the exhibition intends to pay a debt of gratitude.

The intimate connection, sentimental and artistic, of the fellowship that bound her to Jean, her lifelong companion, is essential to grasping the stylistic mark of this artist who, wrongly, has not so far had the privilege of an exhibition that would offer the opportunity to fully know and appreciate her work. To the harmonic declension of Fauvism Danièle has added a rich array of other suggestions, coming from reminiscences of Italian art and continuous close encounters with great French painting. The violent chromatic directness of Derin, the angular geometries of Friesz are at the origin of her post-Fauvism. Vlaminick ’s charged, almost grotesque humanity emerges from certain of his portraits. But it is to the wonderful world of Matisse, with its solar charge, that the most significant contribution in shaping his vast artistic culture must be credited. His paintings almost seem to come to life: faces square the viewer even when the artist eschews the figurative by embracing the rigor of geometry.

Accompanying the exhibition is a docu-film directed by Federico Strinati that traces stages of the artist’s career, outlining an introspective and silent parable: Danièle’s work unravels over the course of a long and industrious existence, claiming a space, not clamorous and overbearing, but animated by intense passion, conspicuous creativity and elective technical expertise, from which flows the image of an artist of great expressive dignity.

For all information you can visit the official website of Palzzo Medici Riccardi.

Pictured: Danièle Lorenzi Scotto, Rosy (oil on canvas, 116 x 89 cm)

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Florence, at Palazzo Medici Riccardi seventy paintings trace the career of painter Danièle Lorenzi Scotto

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