Vessel

Giosetta Fioroni
2000

Giosetta Fioroni was born in Rome in 1932. After spending a brief period in Paris, she returned to work and live in Rome. She followed Toti Scialoja’s painting course as the Rome Academy of Fine Art and her inaugural works went on show at the 7th Rome Quadriennale in 1955. From there on her work featured in many great exhibitions with the Venice Biennale in pride of place. As an eclectic painter she experimented with a variety of media and art forms including collage, photography and projection of stylized images inspired by Renaissance paintings and childhood memories. Her interest in fables was expressed in watercolours, puppet theatre, decorated boxes and other objects.

In 1993 Fioroni began to experiment with ceramics at the Bottega Gatti di Faenza (Gatti workshop in Faenza). In 2000 Nino Caruso invited her to create a series of vessels for the  MACC (Torgiano Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art) which are redolent of her painter’s soul, illustrating her spontaneous and masterful use of colour. Not only has she teased the material, shaping it with her hands but its surface has been incised and fancifully folded. At the centre of the Vasella a black heart evokes the sphere of feelings and intimacy.