Three years after the major retrospective held in collaboration with MUACC in Cagliari, this exhibition, curated by Paolo Cortese and Francesco Romano Petillo, offers the Athenian public a curated selection of works spanning from the early 1970s to the present. The works on display provide a clear insight into the artistic journey of the Roman artist, rightly regarded as one of the mothers of Italian Fiber Art.
In her early career, Franca Sonnino created large canvases, using acrylic and tempera totrace lines – continuous, dashed, or dotted – that intersected and overlapped, forming a dense web of patterns and grids. A few years later, she began to experiment with materials from the domestic realm most frequently  associated with the feminine world, such as thread, sequins, lace, and fabric.
Over time, she moved away from canvas as a medium and thread took the place of the brush. In the very early 1980s, Franca Sonnino invented the solid thread – a cotton thread reinforced with wire – through which she began to draw her universe in three dimensions.