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Date: 29-09-2023
| Size: 619.00 BB
Walking through the exhibit, one feels the weight of her thesis. A chaise lounge upholstered in raw jute sits next to a block of polished porphyry. A rug made of unraveled fire hoses leads to a silk screen print of a car crash. Liliana Rizzari passed away in April 2023 at the age of 85. She died as she lived: refusing interviews, refusing awards, and reportedly using a first-edition copy of a Balla futurist book as a doorstop.
This philosophy manifested in her most famous private collection, "La Camera della Pelle" (The Room of Skin), which she debuted in her tiny apartment in 1971. She covered the walls in burlap soaked in wax, hung a chandelier made of shattered mirrors tied with butcher’s twine, and placed a 16th-century baptismal font in the center of the room—filled with black leather offcuts.
She retreated to a farmhouse in Le Marche. For forty years, she vanished. The art world moved on to Memphis Milano and postmodernism, forgetting the woman who had paved the way for the gritty, industrial chic that would later be co-opted by luxury brands. In 2019, a young curator named Elisa Fontana stumbled upon a storage unit in Ancona. Inside were 300 pieces of unrecognized ephemera: letters from Manzoni, sketches for furniture that defied gravity, and photographs of a woman with severe black bangs and a welding mask standing over a furnace.
Walking through the exhibit, one feels the weight of her thesis. A chaise lounge upholstered in raw jute sits next to a block of polished porphyry. A rug made of unraveled fire hoses leads to a silk screen print of a car crash. Liliana Rizzari passed away in April 2023 at the age of 85. She died as she lived: refusing interviews, refusing awards, and reportedly using a first-edition copy of a Balla futurist book as a doorstop.
This philosophy manifested in her most famous private collection, "La Camera della Pelle" (The Room of Skin), which she debuted in her tiny apartment in 1971. She covered the walls in burlap soaked in wax, hung a chandelier made of shattered mirrors tied with butcher’s twine, and placed a 16th-century baptismal font in the center of the room—filled with black leather offcuts. liliana rizzari
She retreated to a farmhouse in Le Marche. For forty years, she vanished. The art world moved on to Memphis Milano and postmodernism, forgetting the woman who had paved the way for the gritty, industrial chic that would later be co-opted by luxury brands. In 2019, a young curator named Elisa Fontana stumbled upon a storage unit in Ancona. Inside were 300 pieces of unrecognized ephemera: letters from Manzoni, sketches for furniture that defied gravity, and photographs of a woman with severe black bangs and a welding mask standing over a furnace. Walking through the exhibit, one feels the weight