Giosetta Fioroni was the lone female voice in the boys' club of Rome's Scuola di Piazza del Popolo. While her contemporaries looked to American commercialism, she looked inward, using industrial silver paint to trap fleeting emotions and childhood recollections on canvas. This exhibition explores how she bridged the gap between the painted image and the written word through lifelong collaborations with writers and poets.

You're watching the way light catches the aluminum varnish of the Argenti series, making portraits of mothers and daughters appear to float like ghosts in a mirror. In the library rooms, hand-bound artist's books and ceramic sculptures that mimic open pages create a tactile conversation between Fioroni’s brushstrokes and the verses of Andrea Zanzotto. The atmosphere is quiet and studious, yet charged with the metallic shimmer of the 1960s.

• The Silver Series: Witness the iconic Argenti canvases, where industrial paint creates a reflective, dreamlike surface that transforms 1960s pop culture into personal history.
• Literary Architecture: See the library of Palazzo Franchetti transformed into a gallery for artist's books and ceramic works that blur the line between sculpture and text.
• A Singular Perspective: Experience the specific, artisanal approach of the only woman associated with Italian Pop Art, whose work rejects mechanical reproduction for the intimacy of the brush.

Begin in the library rooms to appreciate the delicate interplay between Fioroni’s sketches and the poetry of Goffredo Parise. Move slowly past the Argenti canvases, shifting your position to see how the silver paint changes under the Venetian light coming through the palace windows. After leaving the Palazzo Franchetti, walk toward the Accademia Bridge to watch the sunset over the Grand Canal; the shimmering water often mirrors the metallic, elusive tones of the paintings you have just seen.