The women of Irene Giampiertro

Oshow the works all female of the esteemed painter, now ninety-two, Irene Giampietro. Roman from the Basilic origins, Giampietro has always maintained a great affection for Basilicata and wanted to pay tribute to it, thanks to the laborious and free collaboration of the Galleria Porta Coeli, with an exhibition composed of forty of her beautiful portraits of women. Sixteen of these watercolor paintings with hypnotizing shades of color are an interpretation of the figure of Laura sung by Petrarch in the Canzoniere. Once again, within the welcoming and cultural walls of the Galleria, painting merges with literature and excellence finds space to be made available to the community. "It is necessary," said Dr. Ertico, director of the gallery "to stop feeling too excited when we simply overestimate what is known to us. Art, often the avant-gardes of culture, lie for decades in a discrete and unknown limbo to the masses of distracted patrons. So, by chance but not too much, we propose the works of Giampietro, an illustrious author who in the last decades has protected herself with silence from indifference and from the popular national idea of ​​the woman in search of herself or of a necessarily innovative dimension. Irene paints her women and declines femininity to the feminine. It is discovered in her a figure that absolutely renounces the instrument of seduction and lets itself be seen in its seasonally adjusted dimension. And it thus suggests us to look at femininity as a value that does not ask for pirates or saviors. It just exists. "