Leonor Fini, the rebellious artist who transformed the trauma into dreamlike visions
Hypnotic, ambiguous, erotic and noir, Leonor Fini’s painting is elusive. He was even for her, who said she was tormented by her creations: she wanted to understand where they came from, but she never succeeded. And like all great art, in fact, his is also a magnetic illusion, but also an insidia, like everything we don’t really know.
On the other hand, Leonor Fini has to do with the avoidance since he was a child: he was born in 1907 in Buenos Aires, but moved after a few months to Trieste, the city of the mother. After the violent separation of the parents, the father wants to return to Argentina and tries to kidnap the little Lolò, and then the mother to hide it better begins to disguise her as a boy. This will not only turn on an affinity in her with masks and disguises, but will also lead her to cultivate the idea of a continuous revolt Against the female condition imposed by the patriarchal society and favor of new family and reading models, all instances that will then develop in his work.
However, it is a trauma that slips the spark of art: she is forced to remain at a very young age blindfolded and dark for two interminable yearsand it is precisely after this period that immerses itself in painting. « My eyes shouted revenge, » he will say. Thanks to this impetus and perhaps to this need to recover all that past time without seeing, Leonor Fini raises submerged worlds. I am Leonor Fini It is the great retrospective, edited by Tere Arcq and Carlos Martín, who dedicates them Palazzo Reale of Milan until 22 June with over 100 works which show its production in painting, literature, design, theater and fashion, in the sign of a reduction of the border between these disciplines that would have made school.
In 1931 he moved to Paris and, despite his proximity to surrealism, his style becomes freer. Great intellectuals and artists such as Alberto Moravia and Elsa Morante, Giorgio De Chirico and Jean Cocteau support her during her career and royal palace you can see some of her masterpieces that even in color they have something pulpsometimes remembering Hieronymus Bosch and other mysterious and cultured fairy tales. The Sphinx, in its hybrid, mutant and powerful being, perhaps contains Leonor Fini’s identity and in fact occurs or is often evoked, as in theSelf -portrait with Civettabeing nocturnal and free that perhaps is what in nature is closer to the sphinx, but also to the elusive and to the traits hidden personality of this great artist.
Where: Royal Palace, Piazza del Duomo 12
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