07.11 - 27.12.2008
Fiorenza Bassetti
Flowerbomb
In the name of the perfume Flowerbomb from designers Viktor & Rolf,
Fiorenza Bassetti finds her own initials as well as that combination
of opposing forces that enlivens all of her still lifes. In these works
now on display for the first time at Galleria Balmelli, themes of flowers
and bombs are mixed with hot chocolate and relished with whipped cream
on coffee tables best known from moments of delectable - and expensive
- worldliness.Liquid chocolate - which also serves as a remembrance of the stoves familiar from a woman's everyday domestic life - "sweetly" outlines the silhouettes of the missiles, as if rousing them and inviting them to snuggle up close for protection. Even the linguistic choice of formal and material symbiosis - an earnestly serious play on mental associations, diversions and cross references - leads Fiorenza Bassetti to reinterpret the "Toblerone Trail" (the armored line of fortification built during the mobilization of 1939-45 between the Pied du Jura and Lake Geneva), where a crown of "teeth" made of renowned Swiss chocolate is put in place in defense of the symbol of peace. Explosion of the bombs produces more and more impalpable results in which the dove, symbol of purity, reappears, luminous and glowing, rooted in the origins of the name Fiorenza - and made by her in the 80s and 90s - to begin a series of variations on the theme of the Annunciation coinciding with the moment of tentative conclusion. Marcella Snider Salazar
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Fiorenza
Bassetti - Flowerbomb
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