It has been a fortunate discover the pictorial work of Fiorella Iori, a Tuscany painter, born at Cecina in 1949, and living today at Milan where she teaches Pictorial Disciplines at the art school Boccioni. An important discover under many aspects, so to understand the influence of this painting of hers, due to the art culture acquired first under the guide of the master Fernando Farulli at the Fine Arts Academy of Florence, and then drawn from her active practice as illustrator for important publishers, on the traces of a showy re-launch of the figurative art after tens of years of compelled abstractionism or militant realism. Within the more general attention toward the peculiar nature of painting, for that return to figuration started off in the distant eighties within the Transvanguard. Then several trickles, aspects of creativity, have contributed to make her work converging in recovering an ancient concept, in that recover or imitation of nature, image, the mimesis. And so since time Iori gives us women faces, very beautiful faces, very beautiful glances, very beautiful profiles, second Beatrixes, caught in poses, the most dreamy, manifesting all with the taste of exactness and precision of forms and pastel colours and proportions and the imitation pushed till the limit of the optical deceiving. In the very delicate dualism of creation and imitation these Iori's papers and cartoons are featured by surprising beauty images, pretexts and opportunities having its interpretation keys beyond the simply realism tout court, in a fine psychological mix coming from the 'intermittence of heart', to say it according to the Proust's lesson, and notice that precious and suspended moments, those fixing in memory and heart. Iori is not alone along all this path, since it exists a group of artists required for giving substance to images and figures maybe wrongly snubbed, an unique and real sheet anchor in that new-new world of quotations and neo-symbolism; among this group lives in a big way also that genius of the drawing that Omar Galliani is, whose women faces have the enchantment of sensations, emotions and trepidation. The Iori's sign is very sensual, she traces wisely any form, she outlines fleshes, she make us breath a fine dust colour inside and outside, from the blues to the whites. This very personal art investigation going on together with the work as illustrator she has been practising over years, have already given her very brilliant successes by critics. Lately a work entitled “How in shadow the silence listen to you “ has been accepted among the works at the exhibition “The Mediterranean Myth “ of the Civic Museum of Ruffano (Lecce), and the artist is already working at a “Madonna” that will be acquired as a donation by the M.I.M.A.C., that is the Contemporaneous Art Marian International Museum of the monsignor Antonio Bello Foundation. The skill of these feminine subjects is such that Iori, thanks to her illustrative laboriousness makes it coexists in a harmonic complement the direct observation and mental invention. Highly detailed paintings, magic sybils that aware of this existential turning, represent the cross-section of our society under an imperious researching of a not only outward beauty, but also spiritual.

 

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