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