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Published: 12 June 2008

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Camden Features: Giuseppe Fioroni: Myths, Fairy Tales, Reality, and illusion | Foundling Museum | Italy

CUSTOM and tradition are powerful forces in the world of Giuseppe Fioroni.
The myths and fairy tales of Italy and specifically Umbria, his homeland, inform the septuagenarian artist’s intense, swirling canvasses.
So great is his obsession with the ancient that he has taught himself to play the bag-pipe and the barrel-organ, archaic instruments of the region, just as he taught himself how to paint.
As his first solo exhibition at The Foundling Museum next week will show, Fioroni’s industry has paid off. His colourful reveries that tread the liminal space between fantasy and reality have earned him the rather bombastic title of “Italy’s grand old master of myths”.
But don’t let the plaudits speak for the work: Fioroni’s magical explorations of childhood, emotion and nature have a vernacular all of their own.
SIMON WROE

* Giuseppe Fioroni: Myths, Fairy Tales, Reality and Illusion is at The Foundling Museum, 40 Brunswick Square, WC1, June 19-September 14. Admission £5, concs £4

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