Giosetta Fioroni

Giosetta Fioroni Rome, 1932

Giosetta Fioroni, a prominent figure in Italian painting during the 1960s and 1970s, was born on December 24, 1932. Throughout her long artistic career, she employed various mediums to express her talent, including drawings, canvases, collages, sculptures, ceramic puppet theaters, and performances. She is also an illustrator and author of books. Always inclined towards experimentation, Giosetta Fioroni lives and works in Rome, where she attended the Academy of Fine Arts and encountered Toti Scialoja, who would become a significant figure in her future as an artist. She is one of the few female members of the Scuola di Piazza del Popolo, a group of artists that emerged in Rome during the 1960s around the renowned La Tartaruga Gallery, including Franco Angeli, Mario Schifano, Tano Festa, Francesco Lo Savio, Fabio Mauri, and Giuseppe Uncini. In 1957, Emilio Vedova presented her first solo exhibition at the Montenapoleone Gallery in Milan. Fioroni held numerous exhibitions at La Tartaruga in the 1960s and 1970s and participated in important group shows such as "Nuove Tendenze in Italia" at the Galleria del Naviglio in Milan. She took part in the Venice Biennale in 1956 and 1964, and was given a personal room at the 1993 Venice Biennale. In March 2003, the Municipality of Rome dedicated a major retrospective to her, titled 'La Beltà,' at the Museum of the Markets of Trajan, curated by Daniela Lancioni and Federica Pirani. In March 2004, the Center for Contemporary Art Studies in Parma organized a comprehensive retrospective from the 1960s onwards, curated by Gloria Bianchino. In 2013, she held her first solo exhibition in North America at the Drawing Center in New York, titled 'Giosetta Fioroni: L'Argento,' which later took place at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome. In 2015, the Centre Pompidou in Paris acquired one of her works from the silver years, a painting from the 'Argenti' series of the 1960s titled 'Gli Occhiali' (The Glasses). In December 2015, the MADRE Museum in Naples presented the exhibition 'I teatrini-presepi' (The Puppet Theaters-Nativity Scenes) in one of its halls, curated by Marco Meneguzzo and Pietro Mascitti. In September 2017, she exhibited 'Giosetta Fioroni: Rome in the '60s' at the MMOMA (Moscow Museum of Modern Art).