(September 1, 2017) The art of Giosetta Fioroni, one of the brightest performers of Italian pop art, will be the protagonist in Moscow with the exhibition "Rome in the 60s". To host the works of the artist, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA): the exhibition, organized in collaboration with the Italian Institute of Culture of Moscow, will be inaugurated on September 6 and will remain open to the public until October 22. The exhibition is devoted to Fioroni's work and works during the Sixties, the artist's most well-known period, and allows the spectator to span before and after this formalization, to fully understand the subtle motives, often literary , which caused it, and the sometimes eccentric developments that followed it. Very important - and here again for the first time since then - the presence of  "La Spia Ottica (The Optical Spy)" (1968), a strong installation / performance that metaphorically tells the doubts and anxieties of a historically troubled period and, moreover, from a "female" point of view. The performance will be staged by actress Irene Muscara. (PO / Red)

ABOUT / GIOSETTA FIORONI

Giosetta Fioroni was born in 1932 in Rome in a family of artists. From 1959 to 1963 she lives in Paris where the Denise Breteau gallery dedicates her a personal exhibition. Back in Rome, she is the only female figure to be part of a movement called "School of Piazza del Popolo", together with Franco Angeli, Mario Schifano, Tano Festa, Francesco Lo Savio, Fabio Mauri and Giuseppe Uncini. With some of them, she attends the Venice Biennale in 1964. Her story is humanly marked by the respectable proximity to writers belonging to Gruppo 63, and above all to Goffredo Parise (a writer who has been translated in Russian since the late 1960s), who became her companion from 1963 until her death in 1986. Since 1970 she has participated in important exhibitions. In 2009, an important historical-biographical monograph of the artist was published, curated by Germano Celant. In 2013, the New York Drawing Center dedicates to her the anthology "Giosetta Fioroni, Silver", curated by Claire Gilman. In 2015, the Center Pompidou of Paris acquires one of her works, a canvas of the Silver cycle of the 1960s.