“At a certain point in life, one reflects and wonders if they are happy with their fate. My answer was negative, so I completely abandoned my profession and everything that came with it, including significant income and notoriety.
But without being controversial, working for television channels whose owner is the well-known politician (Ed: Mediaset, Berlusconi Group) was becoming increasingly burdensome. Hence my decision and choice to come and live in Nice, where I already had a secondary residence with my partner Alberto.
Moreover, I could not have changed my life while staying in Italy. Even today people ask me: Aren’t you the one from TV? Why don’t we see you on the screen anymore?
Being a painter has always been my passion, and now I am very satisfied to be able to combine passion and profession in an ideal living environment.
Alberto goes back and forth to Milan where he has his activity, and I have my studio in Old Nice (rue Droite) and I exhibit in Italy as well as in France.
I do not regret my choice; on the contrary, and I do not miss the notoriety at all.”
Fiorella was born in Italy in 1960.
A self-taught painter, since her youth, she has chosen to depict daily life in pencil drawings.
She participated in various group painting exhibitions in Italy in the early ’80s, but her work as a presenter on Italian television didn’t allow her time to continue painting.
In 2003, she left her career at Canale 5, a commercial television of the Mediaset group, and returned to her first loves: painting and photography.
In 2005, she participated as a jury member in various art festivals in the South of France, where she settled in 2007, opening her studio on the artists’ street in the heart of Old Nice.
From that year on, she has participated in numerous exhibitions and art fairs in London, Nice, Menton, Saint-Jean Cap Ferrat, Hyères, Valbonne, Cannes, and more…
In 2008, she presented her works in Madonna del Campiglio, Mapello (Bergamo), and Osaka (Japan), then exhibited in Altopascio (Lucca) and Aspremont.
She has received prestigious awards and numerous accolades, such as the diploma of honor for the originality of her works from the Academy of Fine Arts of Provence Côte Azur and the “Targa d’Argento” from the President of the Republic of Italy at the XXIV Premio Agazzi in Malpello (Bergamo).
In 2009, she planned various solo exhibitions in Italy, France, Japan, and Spain, while a permanent exhibition of her works is on display at the Contemporary Art Center of Lucca.
This year her activity continues with exhibitions in Pontremoli and Berceto during August, in Verona (September), and in Parma from October 7 to November 7.
But to learn more about the artist, art historian Flora Rovigo speaks: “The artist maintains contact with reality through material extrapolated from everyday contexts by means of a magical harmony that regulates the juxtaposition of tones, never violent among them, thus transmitting the energy of the gestures with which they have been placed on the canvas. This results in compositions that propose a new and positive perception of things.
