foto Ewa Rudling
foto Ewa Rudling
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Romina Dogliani, who lives in the Cuneo mountains in the Piedmont region of Italy, and Fiora Gandolfi are collecting felt, that most primitive of fabric, the earliest in human history. Felt is the rough cloth of modesty, the opposite of luxury, perfect for the real snob. Little felt cloak, hand sculpted and mixed with merinos wool, other fabrics, fragments of silk and with small primitive chain embroidery added,. |
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Gallery EOF, Paris "s'habiller d'art"
Orographic Corrugations n. 2
Corrugated Coat - foto Ewa Rudling
Patchwork "Pollock", 2004
Detail of a painted jacket
Exhibition "Waste Victims" Slovenian Gallery A+A, Venice, 2003
Exhibition "Arte da Indossare", Gallery Studio Tommaseo, Trieste 2002
Gli spazi di Fiora Gandolfi
a video by Gabriella Cardazzo, May 1998
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Fiora Gandolfi, who has reported on fashion for over 40 years with her witty articles and illustrations has also developed the theme of fashion as wearable art. She is convinced that color and form worn on the human body expresses artistic values, and has created and exhibited her creations in a number of venues.
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Exhibits of wearable art June 1996 - Venice, Istituto d'Arte, Provocazione Confronto Invenzione. Fashion show at Palazzo Mocenigo (Costume Museum) of clothes, recycled, newly-dyed and printed by students under the guidance of Fiora Gandolfi September 2002 - Perpignan, Pix méditerranée alla Galerie Thérèse Roussel, Reflets de Venise, di Fiora Gandolfi June 2003 - Trieste, Galleria Studio Tommaseo, Imagerie Art Fashion, performance of the Chinese dancer Wu Zheng on June 27, with exhibit during the month of July
September 2003, Caffè Pedrocchi, Padova, February 2004 - Venice, Galleria A+A, Waste Victims with Renata Mihelic.
14th December 2004 - Paris, Galerie ÉOF
27th September 2005, 9.00pm - Paris
Venezia 30 Agosto 2007 at 4 pm
In this performance women of all ages and all countries want to show how women convey different values. Values that are archetypes of tolerance, beauty, understanding, tenderness, communication, listening. The unclothed women in this performance are not aware of their nakedness because their bodies are like Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, far from the idea of the sin. Eve, as it’s written in the Genesis, was dressed with grace. At the beginning there was the goddess mother, symbol of fertility and growth. Afterwards the Greek culture of the rationalistic logos came along, with its cult of the phallus. From there comes the myth of force, of violence, geometry, that saturates even today’s emancipated women politicians, who follow the male archetype of the abuse of power. To this tremendous world, in Italy we add the deceit of pari opportunità (equal opportunity) and quote rosa (the pink quota). It’s a world of deceptions and inequalities that crushes the feminine element existing in every human being, which is constituted of male and feminine chromosomes. Women, facing the destruction of the universe, want to suggest a different model of society, more elastic, where blood, violence, torture, arms, destruction, abuse of power and dead have no place. Women together can change the world, and they must do it. Women have a different way of approaching knowledge and wisdom. They know that nature always follows its own course, that is unknowable, and always will. Women found a lifestyle that leads to true reason, to the idea of nature, respect for love in all its meanings. Women want true discovery of their body, not its commodification. In this present moment in history the feminine body and mind are dramatically crushed by a system that wants women to be more and more like ornaments, images, icons. Women do not want a world made in man’s image, men who have completely forgotten their feminine component. Today’s men reduce and crush the vital presence of women. Even the aesthetic canons of the age we live in, the empire of the image, oppress the feminine presence. Today a skinny, anorexic human being has been invented, as never before in all of history, reduced to the extreme of its strength, thin like a rush, so that it does not occupy the male space, not even symbolically. Men, descending from the Greek logos, in spite of all they have been doing for centuries, will never be able to get rid of us. We follow the enlightening words of Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), the monk who was burnt alive in Rome by the Inquisition. In the XVI century, when in Europe the religious wars were raging, he proclaimed scandalously to the Dons of Oxford: «I am not man, not woman», as we can read in the following passage where he introduces himself: «(I am) Rouser of sleepers (...) not Italian, not English, not male, not woman, not bishop, neither prince (...) but citizen and servant of the world, son of Father Sun and Mother Earth». Text by Fiora Gandolfi |
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Performance 2009 Biennale di Venezia. Erotic Enlightenment by Iris Brosch |
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Names for female genitalia in various cultures and languages. The representation of the female genitalia is common as a protective symbol in the pre-semite era. It was represented as water, as a serpent or as an almond. This part of the body, which is now exclusive territory of pornography, obscene and frightening, had magic powers. In the ‘Song of Songs’(Ed. I don’t remember exactly how it is called in Bible), we read ‘my love, go into your garden in the perfumed lawn’. Flowers, the rose and the bud in particular were for centuries explicit metaphors and they enriched poems of the ‘litterature courtoise’ like the ‘romance of the rose’ or in the ‘flowers’ of Dante Alighieri from which we get the term ‘to deflower’- lose one’s virginity. July 2009 |
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Fiora at work
Fiora Gandolfi as Fashion Staff Artist
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