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Carla Accardi

Carla Accardi

A leading figure in Italian abstract art and the post-World War II art scene, in 1947 Carla Accardi co-signed the Forma 1 group manifesto in Rome, calling for a language based on color and the drawing of abstract forms, in line with contemporary research developing in Europe. In the following years, the artist participated in numerous exhibitions in Italy and abroad; in 1964, a solo room was dedicated to her work in the Italian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, where she would exhibit again in 1976, 1978, and 1988. Carla Accardi's painting, rejecting any figurative or realist image, is a weave of rigorous geometric motifs that appear to be free creations dictated by the unconscious. Initially characterized by linear white marks on black backgrounds, in the 1960s the compositions adopted color, expressed in complex and vibrant two-tone designs with an intense emotional tone. During the 1970s, at the height of the economic boom, the artist replaced the traditional canvas support with sheets of sicofoil, a transparent plastic. Mounted in layers on the visible frame or even rolled up and placed directly on the floor, the sicofoil painted with characteristic geometric marks becomes a diaphragm in which the transparency of the support regulates the passage of beams of light, in a continuous overlapping of planes interacting with the surrounding environment, as in Rosso scuro (1974) and Punto con raggi (1972).

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