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This work is in generally good overall condition. The canvas is wavy by the corners and it is dusty. There are two shallow scratches along the left lower edge. There are some losses, partially visible in the catalogue illustration, along the upper left edge, towards the center of the left margin and towards the center of the upper part of the canvas, where there is some craquelures as well. No traces of retouching appear to be visible under UV light.
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“Dispongo le forme nello spazio del quadro nel modo rapido e sintetico con cui esse si presentano attraverso il ricordo. Cercando di fare un montaggio di vari elementi presi in differenti direzioni e strati della memoria.  Per direzioni della memoria intendo dei lunghi canali dove si raggruppano i ricordi. Dove si depositano le continue apparizioni che l’esperienza di vita ci propone. Un luogo a una certa ora e con una certa luce, il gesto di qualcuno, il modo di muovere gli occhi, una mano, l’unirsi di certe strade … me stessa vista in prospettiva interna, dell’alto, la casa al mare, dei movimenti vissuti là, un quadro, una piazza, una pietra di quella stessa piazza, i cuori disegnati col gesso sui marciapiedi, le forme più semplici che ci circondano. Per strati della memoria intendo qualcosa di più complesso che potrei chiamare sinteticamente la “stratificazione emotiva”. 

Giosetta Fioroni

Journal Parisien – ritorno a Parigi, aprile 1962, dal diario dell’artista, pubblicato in Giosetta Fioroni, Roma anni 90, Milano 2016, p. 95
“I place shapes within the space of the canvas in that rapid and synthetic way in which they occur in my memory. I am trying to put together a montage of various different elements captured in different directions and layers of the memory. By ‘directions of the memory’ I am referring to the long channels in which memories are housed, where we place the continuous apparitions which life offers us. A place with a specific time and with a certain light, the way in which someone gestures, the movement of their eyes, hands, the way certain streets cross… myself seen from an internal perspective, from above, the house by the sea, the way we lived there, a painting, a piazza, a stone from that same piazza, hearts scratched into the cement on a pavement, the simplest shapes that surround us. By ‘layers of the memory’ I am referring to something more complicated that I might call, more concisely, the ‘emotional layering’.”

 



L'autenticità dell'opera è stata verbalmente confermata dall'artista