Carla Accardi
Carla Accardi (Trapani, 1924 - Rome, 2014) born Carolina Accardi, was a leading exponent of Abstract Art in Italy, and of Italian neo-feminism.
Biography and Work
Carla Accardi began her career in Rome, where she met the artists with whom they would give life to Gruppo Forma, a programmatic movement of abstract art in Italy.
During the 1950s, Carla Accardi developed a very personal elaboration of the theme of the sign, in harmony with the results of the European Informal art. Between the 1960s and 1970s his style was oriented towards a language based on the relationship between sign and colour, experimenting with a great variety of expressive solutions: from painting on transparent plastics to interests in the links between work and environment, up to painted laminates and sicofoil on rough canvas.
Between 1969 and 1971, Carla Accardi created her masterpiece Triplice Tenda (Triple Tent) where the relationship between the work of art and its environment reaches a significant milestone, setting up a habitable structure that the observer himself could walk through.
From the 80s until her death, Carla Accardi artistic research was oriented towards experimentation on rough canvases, with interweaving of colored signs.
Exhibitions
Among her solo and group exhibitions we can mention: Carla Accardi. 15 tempere (Galleria Age d'Or, Rome, 1950); Biennale Internazionale d'Arte (Venice, 1948; 1964; 1976; 1978; 1993); Arte astratta e concreta in Italia (GNAM - Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, 1951); 6a Mostra Annuale dell'Art Club (GNAM - Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, 1952); Quadriennale Nazionale d'Arte (Rome, 1955; 1973, 1992); Peintures de Accardi - Sculptures de Delahaye (Galerie Stadler, Paris, 1956); Recent Italian Painting and Sculpture (The Jewish Museum, New York, 1968); Italian Art in the 20th Century (Royal Accademy of Arts, London, 1989); Temi e variazioni. Arte del dopoguerra dalle collezioni Guggenheim (Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, 2002); Carla Accardi (Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville, Paris, 2002); Superficie in ceramica, con elaborazione sonora. Passi di passaggio (MMOMA, Mosca, 2008; Rome; Lima; Buenos Aires; Cordoba from 2009 to 2010); Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution (MOCA, Los Angeles, 2007; Washington D.C.; New York; Vancouver from 2008 to 2009); Italics. Arte italiana fra tradizione e ricoluzione 1968/2008 (Palazzo Grassi, Venice, 2008); elles@centrepompidou (Paris, 2009); Carla Accardi. Contesti (Museo del Novecento, Milan, 2020).
