MIlano, 26 Feb. (askanews) – An artist who is difficult to classify, perhaps due to the tendency to be totalizing, but capable of an intensity and an evidence in some unique verses, despite the context of a posture that could be that of a great priestly of mysteries. Leonor Fini, of Italian origin even if still little known in our country, has been rediscovered in recent years and today Palazzo Reale in Milan dedicates an important staff to her
“He is an artist – he told askanews Carlos Martìn, curators of the exhibition together with Tere Arcq – who interests us above all because there are many aspects of his work that reflect on the contemporary world, who have to do with the types of non -regulatory family, with his concept then of intimacy and identity. For that, the exhibition is titled I am Leonor Fini, because it is a bit of a declaration of how much a person can describe himself as you want, not how others want to want “.
The proudly autonomous spirit of the artist is grasped in his most famous paintings, illuminated from the inside by what we can only define a desire, in its wildest and most absolute form, which then takes from time to time aspects, often multiple and equally often difficult to forget. Because even if we talk about a woman born in 1907, her artistic lesson is deeply current.
“I would focus on a work that is entitled the Alcova – added Martìn – which represents the artist’s room where he is together with a semi -naked man and who illustrates very well what his vision of the male body is, especially until his work teach us how she has distorted the genre roles and the traditional representations of the painter and the muse or the painter and the model. Instead it is she who has an area we say of a lover but also of dominatrix in a certain sense and of the man who remains more passive “.
Back in vogue thanks also to exhibitions by Tommaso Calabro or the Peggy Guggenheim collection in Venice, Leonor Fini was in photographer and designer, and in his cosmopolitan life he attended artists, writers and filmmakers, such as Federico Fellini, for whom he made one of the costumes of 8 and 1/2, present in the Milanese exhibition.
Between Italy and Paris, between the Amazons and strange hybrid between animal and human, between naked bodies and indomitable hair, the world of Fini shines like a completely new story, even if, in the end, we have probably always known it within us.
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