Biografia e Opere

Born in Trapani in 1924, Carla Accardi began her career as an abstract and feminist painter in Rome.

In 1947, together with Ugo Attardi, Pietro Consagra, Piero Dorazio, Mino Guerrini, Achille Perilli, Antonio Sanfilippo and Giulio Turcato, he published the founding magazine of the Gruppo Forma 1 which later became a programmatic movement of Abstract Art in Italy.

In the 1950s, he developed a personal elaboration of the theme of the sign, in harmony with the results of the European Informal.

Between the 1960s and 1970s, his style oriented itself 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 an interest in the links between work and environment, up to painted laminates and sicofoil on raw canvas.

Between 1969 and 1971, Carla Accardi created her masterpiece: Triplice Tenda, in which the relationship between the work of art and the environment reaches a significant milestone, creating a habitable structure that the spectator could walk through.

From the 1980s until his death in Rome in 2014, his artistic research focused on experimentation on raw canvases, with interweaving of colored signs.

Exhibitions

Among the main personal and collective exhibitions of Carla Accardi, we can mention:

• Carla Accardi. 15 tempere, Galleria Age d’Or, Roma, 1950;

• Biennale Internazionale d’Arte, Venezia, 1948; 1964; 1976; 1978; 1993;

• Arte astratta e concreta in Italia, GNAM – Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Roma, 1951;

• 6ª Mostra Annuale dell’Art Club, GNAM – Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Roma, 1952;

• Quadriennale Nazionale d’Arte, Roma, 1955; 1973; 1992;

• Peintures de Accardi – Sculptures de Delahaye, Galerie Stadler, Parigi, 1956;

• Recent Italian Painting and Sculpture, The Jewish Museum, New York, 1968;

• Italian Art in the 20th Century, Royal Academy of Arts, Londra, 1989;

• Temi e variazioni. Arte del dopoguerra dalle collezioni Guggenheim , Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venezia, 2002;

• Carla Accardi, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville, Parigi, 2002;

• Superficie in ceramica, con elaborazione sonora. Passi di passaggio , MMOMA, Mosca, 2008; Roma; Lima; Buenos Aires; Córdoba, dal 2009 al 2010;

• Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution , MOCA, Los Angeles, 2007; Washington D.C.; New York; Vancouver, dal 2008 al 2009;

• Italics. Arte italiana fra tradizione e rivoluzione 1968/2008 , Palazzo Grassi, Venice, 2008;

• elles@centrepompidou, Parigi, 2009;

• Carla Accardi. Contesti , Museo del Novecento, Milano, 2020.

LINk

• Articolo su Exibart, dedicato alla mostra collettiva Fare Uno. Dalla Parola al Segno. Un dialogo possibile , Galleria Erica Ravenna, Roma, 2023

• Articolo su Inside Art, dedicato alla mostra collettiva Fare Uno. Dalla Parola al Segno. Un dialogo possibile , Galleria Erica Ravenna, Roma, 2023

• Voce Treccani dedicata all’artista