Material silver enamel and graphite on paper
Dimensions 100 × 70 cm
Place of Creation Rome
Price Price Upon Inquiry
Status Vetted

About the Work

La fidanzata (1966) by Giosetta Fioroni is a delicate work on paper from her celebrated “Argenti” period, the most iconic phase of her career that marked her entry into the international art scene. Fioroni stands as one of the leading figures of Italian Pop Art and was notably the only woman associated with the Scuola di Piazza del Popolo, a group that played a crucial role in redefining the visual language of postwar Italian art.


In this work, Fioroni employs silver enamel as a poetic device—its luminous, reflective surface evoking the fragile persistence of memory and a sense of time suspended or lost. The silvery sheen also recalls the language of photography, as the artist herself explained, suggesting faded images, fleeting moments, and the mediated nature of recollection, while inviting the viewer into a subtly mirrored, introspective space.

Although Fioroni developed these works on both canvas and paper, her works on paper hold particular significance for their immediacy and intimacy. This aspect was notably highlighted in a 2013 exhibition at the Drawing Center in New York, later reprised at the GNAMC Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Rome, where a substantial group of these pieces was brought together, further consolidating Fioroni’s recognition and influence beyond Italy.

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Provenance

the work is signed and dated on the front lower right: Giosetta Fioroni '66

Provenance:
Private Collection, Milan; Private Collection, Bologna.

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