YEAR: 2016

Giampaolo Talani has designed a bronze work for Florence, a tribute and a thank you to the city where he completed his art studies and to which he is strongly attached artistically and humanly. The artist, who is famous for having revitalised 'public' art with the fresco PARTENZE and the other numerous public works placed in spaces of intense frequentation, far from attempting to compete with the works of the great artists of the past, wants to bring with his FIORENZA a current contribution to the artistic panorama of the city.
Talani espouses the poetry of a city that bears a feminine name but has never been identified with the symbol of a woman. On the contrary, only the virile aspect of Florence has always been proudly exalted over the centuries.
Fiorenza is woman, a firm and absolute presence, mysterious and motherly; at the same time a flourishing female with a melancholic gaze turned to a prestigious past but still capable of looking far into a future of hope and beauty.
Fiorenza is a figure dedicated to the city of Florence itself and, with her, to all women.
From 1 February 2017, Fiorenza will be permanently located in Piazza San Jacopino, Florence.