Giosetta Fioroni

Giosetta Fioroni is famous for using silver aluminum enamel paint mixed with oil to create glamorous portraits of fashion models, actresses, and iconic female figures from Italian art history with a Pop art aesthetic. Works from Fioroni’s 1960s series, titled “Argenti” (Italian for “silvers”), include Untitled (1970), in which a Renaissance Venus is pared down to a graphic grayscale and set against a patterned landscape. Fioroni hailed from an artistic family, studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, and lived in Paris for several years, where Denise Breteau organized an exhibition of her work in 1963. When she returned to Rome, Fioroni became involved with the Scuola di Piazza del Popolo movement and exhibited some of the works in her “Argenti” series at the 1964 Venice Biennale, an event that helped bring Italian Pop art to the world stage. Fioroni’s artistic interests were constantly evolving: She also experimented with sculpture, ceramics, and film.