Giosetta Fioroni

Giosetta Fioroni (Rome, 1932) lives and works in Rome. She started her studies at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome, and she began exhibiting as early as 1955 at the Quadriennale in Rome, and, the following year, at the Venice Biennale. In 1957, Emilio Vedova presented her first solo exhibition at the Galleria Montenapoleone in Milan. Between 1958 and 1961 she lived in Paris; later, having returned to Italy, she took part in the Scuola di Piazza del Popolo, befriending and exhibiting with artists such as Tano Festa, Mario Schifano, and Mimmo Rotella. During these years, she worked on the Argenti cycle, works in which, projecting photographs onto canvas, she developed the forms of her subjects – women in particular – with enamels and industrial aluminum paints. Numerous solo shows have been held in Italy and abroad, including: Galerie Breteau, Paris (1963); Galleria del Naviglio, Milan (1965, 1967, 1969, 1971); Modern Art Agency, Naples (1968); Galleria Il Punto, Turin (1970); Galleria de’ Foscherari, Bologna (1974). In 1968, with the performance La Spia ottica she inaugurated the “Teatro delle Mostre” at Galleria La Tartaruga, Rome. In 1972, a large-scale retrospective was staged at the Visual Activities Center of the Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara.
During the 1970s, she lived long periods in the Treviso countryside, alongside writer Goffredo Parise. Her interest focused on the legends of country spirits, dreamlike and visionary stories, from which a series of works dedicated to the world of fairy tales and the rediscovery of childhood was born.
In 1993, she discovered a great interest in ceramics, collaborating, in particular, with Maurizio Corraini’s gallery and the Bottega d’Arte Ceramica Gatti in Faenza, with whom he worked on the creation of several important sculptural cycles, including the famous Vestiti. That same year, she participated in the Venice Biennale with a solo room. In 2003, the Municipality of Rome dedicated a major retrospective to her at the Mercati di Traiano Museo dei Fori Imperiali, followed by one at the CSAC in Parma in 2004. In 2013, her first North American solo show was held at the Drawing Center in New York and in 2017 she exhibited at MMOMA – Moscow Museum of Modern Art.