Anthony Zinonos, GABRIELLA’S GLOW

Room 10

Anthony Zinonos began calling Gabriella Testori Bernardini only Lella.
He pronounced it with his English accent and with the familiarity of someone who had caressed her black and white photographs for days, who had made other people’s stories his own and had taken part in parties, dinners and trips with his imagination. He would like to have met her personally and laughed with her as he did with his brother Giovanni and would like, one day, to be looked at by a woman as she looked at her husband Carlo.
The family room of Casa Testori hosts a tribute to Giovanni Testori’s younger sister, who died on 2 March 2014, entrusted to the collages of Anthony Zinonos, in which the superimposition of layers of paper enters into dialogue with the subtraction of plaster from the large permanent work by Andrea Mastrovito.

Anthony Zinonos was born in South Africa in 1981. He lives and works in Norwich (UK).