Arazzo "Infarto" "Heart Attack" Tapestry
Size: 234 x 157 cm
Year: 1974
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The first tapestry of a long series depicting various landscapes as seen from an aeroplane - Veneto, Asturias, Castilla, Guadalquivir, Cuenca - born by chance from Gandolfi's overwhelming desire to escape that sickroom in the hospital and take flight like a seagull whose claws are embroidery needles. She bought herself a canvas, wools and needles. With a brush she sketched the heart attack - the area of the ischemia, the dead tissue - onto the perforated panel. Then she filled in the spots in needlepoint, and around them, painting in wool, a grand vortex depicting her own contracting guts, the white bedside table, the bars on the bed, and the feathers floating down to become her wings.
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Arazzo "Barene"; "Sandbars" Tapestry
size 160 x 200
year 1975
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Barene is the Italian name for the muddy islands or sandbars that form the Venetian lagoon and on which the city was built. This tapestry depicts the slow course of the sandy waters as seen from the air, the mirror of the shallow lagoon surrounding Torcello, Mazzorbo, Mazzorbetto and Burano.
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Tapestry - Reattivo di Rorschach, Size: 280 x 150 cm, Year: 1974
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The winter evenings are too long and lonely on the small island of Mazzorbetto.
Lost in the Venetian Lagoon, Rita and Maurizio, children of Moleca the fisherman, go to work on the huge carpet that depicts the second last blot of the Rorschach test. |
The tapestries have been published in Rakam magazine.
Armchair-sculpture
year 2006
Ceilings and Walls
Soffitto Esagonale (Hexagonal Ceiling)
Behind the filiform sculptured lights, a ceiling depicting the four seasons
painted in mixed media of tempera and acrylic. Year: 1984
Parete Givergny (Givergny Wall)
Rapidly applied strokes of both brush and palette knife create the impression
of movement on this very fixed wall. Mixed media of bees wax, tempera and pastel. Year: 1990
Soffitto verde Tiepolo (Ceiling in Tiepolo green)
Rolling hills of clouds building up before a storm.
Media: tempera, Year: 1990, restored 1998
Painted ceiling reproducing the variations of the shades and lights of an XVIII century Venetian chandelier
Year: 1990 and 1994
Painted wall with graffiti, Mixed media 1985
Affresco con frammenti di specchio (Fresco with mirror fragments)
Mirrors corroded over time encrust a crumbling wall. Year: 2002
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Concertina Books Folding books of painted cardboard that open like accordions, inspired by Japanese (orihon) books. They are painted with silkscreen paints in bright colours that shine even more vividly under fluorescent lights. With inscriptions written in Chinese calligraphy, 18th century cursive script, liturgical Cyrillic, or in Roman characters, they depict landscapes in a sea of famous sayings and quotations, or alternatively, given that Gandolfi is compiling a book on the semiotics of insults, phrases inspired by this work. Various poems in Latin, Arabic and Persian meander and intertwine calligraphically with insults and mystical Sufi phrases. Fiora Gandolfi has exhibited these works at the Conference/Performance/Exhibition "Insults in Italy and the World" at the Italian Cultural Centre in Paris in 2002. |
