Giosetta Fioroni (b. 1932, Rome, Italy) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome with Toti Scialoja and, in the 1960s, started her most famous series, the Quadri d’argento, works made with enamel and industrial aluminium paint. After a stay in Paris, she returned to Rome, where she came into contact with the artists of the Scuola di Piazza del Popolo, with whom she exhibited at the 1964 Venice Biennale.
In 1968, she inaugurated Il Teatro delle Mostre at Plinio De Martiis’ Galleria La Tartaruga with the performance La Spia Ottica. Also, in these years, she created her giocattoli per adulti, the Teatrini and began experimenting with the camera. Her collaborations with writers are numerous, including Germano Lombardi, Nanni Balestrini, Guido Ceronetti and Goffredo Parise, her partner.
Between the 1970s and 1980s, she exhibited in numerous Italian galleries, such as Galleria del Naviglio in Milan, Galleria Lucio Amelio in Naples, Galleria dell’Oca in Rome, and Mazzoli in Modena. She took part in the Quadriennale in Rome several times, and in 1990, the National Institute for Graphics set up an anthological exhibition with her works on paper.
In 2013, she held her first solo exhibition of drawings in America at the Drawing Center, which will move to the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Rome in 2014.
Exhibitions
Marina Apollonio, Mirella Bentivoglio, Valentina Berardinone, Tomaso Binga, Renata Boero, Dadamaino, Lucia Marcucci, Lucia Pescador, Giosetta Fioroni, Libera Mazzoleni, Verita Monselles, Stephanie Oursler, Sandra Sandri, Suzanne Santoro, Grazia Varisco, , , , Nanda Vigo
Romana Loda e l’arte delle donne
