ABOUT IACOPO MARIA FIORANI
Iacopo Maria Fiorani (b.1975) is an Italian artist currently living in Rome. He loves the sea, has a passion for fishing and lived a few years in Greece (Athens, 2003-2005), a country which he considers one of his life-time options, one day.
Iacopo comes from a family of psychologists and doctors, plus he has always been educated towards the arts since his childhood when he often found himself drawing monsters and caricature figures. He then chose a degree in Sociology with a thesis on Cultural Anthropology (2001), to enrich his rebellious inclination for humanistic studies. The combination of these life experiences led him to the urge of researching his language through an artistic path and started attending the school of the Tuscan sculptor and painter Leonetto Tintori. Here he developed the need of experimenting through several art techniques and, with time, built a personal artistic path he nowadays considers one of his primary goals in life.
Iacopo can combine his intricate emotional knots with his desperate need of tidying up to discover furthermore meaningful purposes. To achieve this, he had to find out a peculiar technique, a tool to communicate his real roots, primordial emotions, and intimate messages. Iacopo accomplished this when he discovered the Scraping , initially, and then the Switching techniques. These two methods made him distinguished and recognized and are fundamental to the making of his fascinating art pieces.
ABOUT HIS TECHNIQUES
Iacopo Fiorani’s starting point is not a vivid vision of what the final artwork will be, but a somewhat chaotic feeling made of vague emotions. Iacopo attempts to use the canvas as an experimental platform where to find himself as well as something more. The canvas and the artist are central in his work, as a reaction to the lack of concentrating on oneself in this hyper-technological society. For this, he founded the Scraping and the Switching methods. The Scraping is a process of adding and removing layers of paper and colors, the exact inverse way as the Switching process works. Switching is the one he recognizes himself mostly into, as he also defines it The reconciliation of instinct with form. Is made up of complex passages of gluing together paper pieces previously soaked into colors and then fixed onto the canvas. Both the making processes have in common the complexity of the intimate feelings Iacopo deals with, and are part of a sort of ritual he undertakes while creating the piece. It’s always about adding, removing, gluing or fixing pieces of his emotional layers, a metaphor that well applies to intimate research.
Iacopo Maria Fiorani never considered himself as a former painter until the art critic David Miliozzi defined him as one of the leading representatives of the brand new art movement called Hyperexpressionism, a fresh contemporary art concept founded in Italy in 2016. Iacopo was initially resistant to present his work to art galleries. He never trusted the artistic competition of the contemporary society, seen as a race for the most original art piece, as Iacopo instead focuses on the human being, to communicate his internal wounds through the canvas. Although, since 2016, he has been exhibiting his works in various events in Europe, among which Berlin, Rome, Prague, together with artists like Hsiao Chin, Mario Schifano, Franco Angeli, Mimmo Rotella.
Iacopo is currently part of st-Art Amsterdam.
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