26 March 2024   –   Time to read: 5 min

From April 12th to 14th, the contemporary art fair in Milan will be held at the Allianz MiCo on Viale Scarampo

No Time No Space is the title of the 28th edition of Miart, again directed this year by curator Nicola Ricciardi. The title No Time No Space, borrowed from a song by Franco Battiato, aims to underline the Milanese fair’s desire to expand its boundaries more and more, both geographically – continuing collaborations and forays into the public space of the city of Milan – and temporally – through the addition of a new exhibition section. This year, the Established section, within which Marcorossi artecontemporanea exhibits, will host galleries presenting contemporary artists as well as galleries featuring works created during the 20th century, offering a selection ranging from masters of modern art to new and recent productions. Portal is the new deliberately anachronistic section, hosting ten selected galleries that propose as many small exhibitions designed to discover or rediscover universes and artistic practices seemingly very distant: a window to look at the present through parallel dimensions and unconventional prisms. Finally, Emergent is the section reserved for galleries promoting the most recent generations of artists.

 

Marcorossi artecontemporanea presents a monographic stand on the ceramics of Giosetta Fioroni

Continuing the tradition of presenting a solo exhibition of a historicized artist at Miart, this year Marcorossi artecontemporanea presents Giosetta Fioroni, an artist with whom they have worked since 1997, dedicating the stand to the sculptures created by the artist at the renowned Bottega Gatti in Faenza, rare works that the gallery has collected and preserved over time.

In the 1990s, Giosetta Fioroni encountered ceramics, and thanks to her acquaintance with Davide Servadei, heir to the historic Bottega Gatti in Faenza, she began to explore this new territory, creating over the years various cycles of works: the Teatrini, the Houses, the Magic Boxes, the Tiles, the Steles, the Dogs, the 100 trees exhibited at the Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna in Rome and clothes.
In 2005, the publisher Skira released an important monographic volume titled ‘Ceramiche,’ presented at the GNAM in Rome, cementing the significance of the artist’s ceramic work. In 2006, the Marcorossi gallery hosted a solo exhibition titled ‘Fabula’ by Giosetta Fioroni, for which the artist created over thirty ceramic pieces at the Bottega Gatti, inspired by the world of Jakovlevic Propp (1895-1971), her friend and a prominent scholar of Russian folklore and fairy tales.

 

Giosetta Fioroni and the poetry of her ceramics

Giosetta Fioroni was born in Rome in 1932 into a family of artists. She is an eclectic artist who loves to explore various media, transitioning from silverworks in the 1960s, canvases and drawings created with enamels and industrial paints on aluminum, to experiments with photography, and finally to the production of ceramics. Since 1993, she has been collaborating with the Bottega Gatti, which during the same years was frequented by other important artists such as Mimmo Paladino and Luigi Ontani. Fioroni creates works dedicated to fairy tales, magic, and the fantastical world, which have been exhibited in solo shows in major galleries in Italy and abroad. She also executed two large ceramic portals for the Nuovo Olimpia cinema in Rome, introducing visitors to its halls.

Fioroni herself describes these works as “hyper-pictorial,” due to her choice of mixing engobes with iridescent majolica and third-fire enamels. Her ceramics exhibit an intimate cohesion between form and color, blending dreamlike and fairy-tale qualities with literary references.

 

 

Info:

Miart

12 – 14 april 2024

VIP Preview on April 11, 2024, by invitation only

Allianz MiCo, Pad. 3

Viale Scarampo, Milan

 

Hours

Invitation-only Vernissage on April 11 at 6pm

12 – 13 april: 11.30am at 8pm

14 april: 11am at 7pm