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1972 - CAROL RAmA - SENZA TITOLO There were countless exhibitions dedicated to her, the first
mATITE COLORATE E gOmmA su CARTONCINO, Cm 48,5 X 63 was famously shut down by the police before it even opened
COLOuRED PENCILs AND RuBBER ON CARTBOARD, IN. 19,09 X 24,80 in 1945, due to its indecent and provocative content, and the
latest is currently on at Turin’s galleria d’Arte moderna, entitled,
VENDuTo a after due consideration, “Passion according to Carol Rama”. The
SolD aT exhibition traces the career of a figure who was vital to the
€ 16.250 Italian and international artistic panorama, as demonstrated by
the golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement awarded to her at
Luciano Anselmino would open up the international world by the Venice Biennale in 2003. It was an important recognition
introducing her to Andy Warhol and man Ray. for a great woman who created a singular way to live and exist
from art, through a painting as profound as the unconscious,
Intersecting experimentation would continue in a lively never consistent, never conforming and always defined by that
succession of different techniques throughout her life: unbreakable connection with her deep inner self and daily life.
watercolour in her younger days, oil paints in the War years,
the abstract phase of the Fifties, the ‘bricolage’ of the sixties The world of international collectors did not just stand
which came to a head in the seventies, when her compositions aside of course, there is great demand for her on the market
opened up to a new material: the rubber of inner tubes and seals, and collectors are fierce and passionate. Prices are rising
applied onto monochrome canvases as though it was paint yet exponentially, an unequivocal sign that Carol, in negotiating
maintaining all the incisiveness of the material itself. The rubber the twentieth century with her art, successfully conveyed her
became skin and flesh, and recalled the work of her father, a small passion for life and beauty and her intelligence as an aware,
businessman who manufactured bicycles among other things. visceral and unstoppable woman.
she returned to figure drawing in the Eighties with pre-printed
sheets and bodies outlined by confident and rough strokes à
la schiele. And then her final works in the early 2000s, which
retraced, mixed and engaged with all her styles and directions.
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