True Form

True Form' is Adelaide Cioni’s debut exhibition at The Approach, showing new works across both gallery spaces. Inspired by a quote from the Ancient Egyptian Panehsy, Royal Treasurer to Pharaoh Ramesses II, the show talks about our relationship with the artworks that we make or surround ourselves with, connecting it to questions of translation. In the main gallery, Cioni has produced several large unstretched cotton fabric paintings of female forms. These are enlargements of drawings that she made of statuettes from museums, including the British Museum in London and the Egyptian Museum in Turin. Though distinctly female, the forms are...

Adelaide Cioni (b. 1976, Bologna) lives and works in Spoleto, Italy. She studied drawing at UCLA, Los Angeles, and received a BA in Sculpture from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome (2015). With an MA in contemporary history and a master’s degree in Literary Translation, for ten years she translated American literature (John Cheever, Lydia Davis, David Foster Wallace, among others). Sele...

Adelaide Cioni (b. 1976, Bologna) lives and works in Spoleto, Italy. She studied drawing at UCLA, Los Angeles, and received a BA in Sculpture from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome (2015). With an MA in contemporary history and a master’s degree in Literary Translation, for ten years she translated American literature (John Cheever, Lydia Davis, David Foster Wallace, among others). Selected recent exhibitions include: Drawings for Myself, P420, Bologna, IT (solo); Infinita infanzia, Palazzo Collicola, Spoleto, IT (all 2024); Il mondo, Commissione Centro Pecci 2023, Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, IT (solo); Italian Painting Today, Triennale, Milano, IT; Teatrino, Museo del Tessuto e del Costume, Spoleto, IT (site-specific installation); Ab ovo / On Patterns, Mimosa House, London, UK (solo); Recent Acquisitions and Eternal Loves - Part I, Nicoletta Fiorucci Collection, Principality of Monaco, MC (all 2023); An Incomplete A to Z for Art and Poetry, 30 Old Burlington Street, London, UK; Prayers to Jupiter, Fondazione Memmo/Gasworks, London, UK (performance) (all 2022); And the flowers too, Fondazione Volume, Museo Orto Botanico, Roma, IT; Tout Court. Un aperçu de l’art contemporain italien, l’Istituto Italiano di Cultura a Parigi, Paris, FR; Painting stone, Villa Lontana, Roma, IT; 141 - Un secolo di disegno in Italia, Fondazione del Monte di Bologna e Ravenna, Bologna, IT; Io dico io (I say I), Galleria Nazionale d’arte moderna e contemporanea, Roma, IT (all 2021); Shape, color, taste, sound and smell, Adelaide Cioni/Guy Mees, P420, Bologna, IT (duo); Six or seven, Madonna del Pozzo, Spoleto, IT (solo) (both 2019); Pink punk performance, with Fabio Giorgi Alberti, da Franco, Roma, IT (2017); à propos de bacchelli, MAMbo, Bologna, IT (solo, 2015).