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Nove cicli di opere e alcuni singoli lavori scandiscono i capitoli di questo esaustivo libro dedicato alle ceramiche di Giosetta Fioroni.

Nine cycles of works and some single pieces mark the chapters of this exhaustive book dedicated to the ceramics of Giosetta Fioroni.
The images do not follow a strict chronological order. The publication begins with the Teatrini and Case, the early ceramic forms the artist made her debut with in 1993 – these works are about places generated by the memory of childhood games filled with fantasy.
Then the Sedie, created between 1994-1995, and the three larger forms from 1999, shaped reflecting on war, Baudelaire or spring … they are about the minimum habitable unit that a seat sets aside for waiting. These are followed by the complete series entitled Steli from 1999, the images of the Cento alberi exhibited at the Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna in Rome in 1998, some Scatole from 1996 and the Formelle which shape images from the poems of Penna, Auden, Michelangelo… the CaseMatte from 2003, variations on a theme, such as Alberi, multiplied to frame an entire wall, and the Vestiti from 2004 - in this work there are eight dresses in which the artist has fused the identity and destiny of one her preferred literary heroes.
The ceramics catalogue ends with the large commission works for public spaces and works created for two special events: the Presepio whose shapes anticipate the Steli. It was created when Giosetta Fioroni found the Sacra Famiglia (made by her father, who was a sculptor) and the tomb of her beloved dog Petote in the garden at Patanella, the Tuscan country home of her friends Nadia Fusini and Franco Marcoaldi.

Giosetta Fioroni was born in Rome in 1932 in a family of artists: her father Mario was a sculptor and her mother Francesca painted and was a skilled puppeteer. One of her first exhibitions was in 1956 at the Venice Biennale. This was followed by numerous personal and group shows in Italy and overseas. Between 1960-70 she created a cycle of canvasses with images in silver that were an immediate success.
In 1968 Giosetta left painting for a time and created a performance work, La Spia ottica, which inaugurated the Teatro delle Mostre at the Galleria Tartaruga in Rome. In 1969 she also created the first Teatrino, “a toy for adults” in painted wood: through a lens the viewer can see an assemblage of miniaturised objects.

Throughout the 1970s Giosetta lived in the Treviso countryside for long periods of time, together with the writer Goffredo Parise. Her interest then was directed to the legends of the spirits of the countryside, vision and dream narratives: this led to a series of works dedicated to the world of fairy tales and the rediscovery of her childhood.

In the 1980s the artist created her pictorial cycle entitled Il vero and a series of pastels and oils dedicated to Gian Domenico Tiepolo. Throughout the 1990s Giosetta continued to paint, which she still does with passion in her large studio-laboratory in Via San Francesco di Sales in Trastevere. In 1993 she also became interested in ceramics, and began working at the Gatti workshop in Faenza. This led to the creation of notable sculptural cycles. From her artistic debut Giosetta has been in close contact with writers and poets, including Parise, Ceronetti, Arbasino, Zanzotto, Garboli and many others with whom she had created books, graphics and works on paper.