Carla Accardi
works on paper 1960-1980
28.09.2019 — 03.11.2019
Show introduction
Two decades of Carla Accardi’s research are analyzed through a selection of her works on paper. Accardi is one of the most interesting personalities of Italian abstract art in the second half of the 20th century, in a period living the deepening of the reflections on the optical effects of color linked with sign. The thick compositional texture, characterized by a rapid rhythm, reaffirms also in the works on paper, as in paintings, the peculiarity of the language chosen by Accardi, who reaches effects of deep harmony and compositional vitality.
Artist
Carla Accardi was born in Trapani in 1924. After her studies at the fine arts academies in Palermo and Florence, in 1946 she moved to Rome where she came into contact with exponents of Italian abstraction. In 1947, together with Attardi, Consagra, Turcato, and Sanfilippo (whom she was to marry in 1949), she founded the Forma Uno group, which was also to include Dorazio, Guerrini, and Perilli.
