Adelaide Cioni

Bologna, IT, 1976

In Adelaide Cioni’s work, color bursts forth and we are immersed by it. Body-color that is embodied in a shape, becoming volume, surface, or threshold, filling in the space. The display plays by the same rule, saturating the room and offering body-to-body contact. (Perhaps it is in this way of conceiving the relationship between the work, space, and viewer that we more clearly perceive the link with Pascali who, along with Novelli and Mario Merz, has had the most influence on her work).

Flat and matte on paper, this modern-day color squeezed straight from the tube and asked to fill in a simple – and happy – ice cream surprisingly reminds us of a fresco: the pink occupying a nondescript popsicle shape is the same pink that was used by Giotto, the same pink that was chosen by Piero della Francesca. And because this shape is precisely that of something as mundane as an ice cream, I view it not as subject but rather as vehicle, color as means, therefore, in all its seductiveness.

Cecilia Canziani 2019

Gallery exhibitions

Selected works

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Adelaide Cioni, Fiore rosso, 2024, Bellandi wool stitched on canvas, cm.157,5x186
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Adelaide Cioni, Tempesta, 2024, vinyl paint on canvas, cm.142,5x134
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Adelaide Cioni, Il mare, 2024, gouache on paper, cm.22x91x26
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Adelaide Cioni, Onde, 2023, gouache and Indian ink on paper, cm.24x32
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Adelaide Cioni, Song for the Yellow Beaks, 2023, acrylic on canvas, cm.119,5x153,5
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Adelaide Cioni, Piccolo mare, 2023, acrylic and Indian ink on wood, cm.18x24
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Adelaide Cioni, Song for the Sea, 2023, Indian ink and vinyl paint on paper, cm.42x59,5
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Adelaide Cioni, Tentativo di trovare la felicità n.2, 2022, gouache and pencil on paper, cm.35x38
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Adelaide Cioni, P.P. La nuvola, 2021, wool stitched on canvas, cm.95x135,5
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Adelaide Cioni, Lungo o lunghissimo, 2022, Indian ink and vinyl paint on canvas, cm.155x200
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Adelaide Cioni, Totem for Greta, the yellow lion, 2022, wool stitched on canvas, cm.120x170
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Adelaide Cioni, To be naked. Arms, 2021, wool stitched on canvas, cm.123x80
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Adelaide Cioni, Pezzo di cielo, 2021, wool stitched on wool, cm.210x170
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Adelaide Cioni, Ab ovo. Five red circles, 2020, fabric stitched on canvas, cm.103x82
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Adelaide Cioni, Ab ovo. Yellow lightnings, 2020, Indian ink and oil pastel on paper, 22x28cm
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Adelaide Cioni, Go easy on me, one red with wide pink stripe, 2020, Indian ink and vinyl paint on vintage paper, cm.28x22
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Adelaide Cioni, Ab ovo. Green leaf, 2020, wool stitched on canvas, cm.140x128
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Adelaide Cioni, The black holes, number 3, 2020, wool stitched on canvas, cm.103x84
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Adelaide Cioni, Tazza a strisce, 2020, pastel and Indian ink on paper, cm.21x29,6
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Adelaide Cioni, Go easy on me, two pink ones with red sticks, 2020, wool stitched on canvas, cm.142x150
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Adelaide Cioni, Il sole, 2019, fabric on canvas, cm.240x184
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Adelaide Cioni, La scacchiera, 2019, fabric on flannel, cm.210x210
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Adelaide Cioni, Go easy on me, one pink with three thin red stripes, 2019, Indian ink and vynilics on vintage paper, cm.28x22