Carla Accardi, colour silkscreen 36/99

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Carla Accardi, colour serigraph number 36/99, signed and numbered in pencil by the artist on the front, 100x140 cm. We are at your complete disposal for any information and/or requests for images and details. Carla Accardi was born in Trapani on 9 October 1924. After graduating from classical high school, in 1943 she took her baccalaureate in art and then followed courses at the Academy of Fine Arts in Palermo and Florence. In 1946, he settled in Rome with the painter Antonio Sanfilippo, whom he married a few years later. He attended the Art Club and Pietro Consagra's studio, where he met artists such as Attardi, Dorazio, Guerrini, Perilli and Turcato, with whom he signed the manifesto of the Forma 1 group in 1947. He took part in numerous group exhibitions in Italy and abroad and in 1950 held his first solo exhibition at the Galleria Numero in Florence. During the 1950s, his language moved towards an abstraction reduced to sign and black and white, close to the research of the major Informal artists. Michel Tapié, critic and promoter of this movement, invited her to participate in the various exhibitions he curated in Italy and abroad between 1954 and 1959. In the 1960s, with her adhesion to the Continuità group, her works show a recovery of colour, with references to metropolitan culture and optical effects. His research is characterised by continuous experimentation that is radicalised in the use of transparent plastic supports that accentuate the nature of the painting as a luminous diaphragm. He took part in the Venice Biennale several times: in 1964 and again in 1976 and 1978. In the 1980s, when he returned to painting on canvas, his language underwent a further change through the use of signs and chromatic juxtapositions. She exhibited again at the Venice Biennale in 1988 and participated in the main historical exhibitions on Italian art, including "The Italian Metamorphosis 1943-1968" at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York (1994). Appointed a member of the Brera Academy in 1996, the following year she became an advisor to the Commission for the Venice Biennale. Her works are present in the collections of the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome, the Museum of Contemporary Art at the Castello di Rivoli (Turin), the Civic Galleries of Modena and Bologna, the Palazzo Reale in Milan and the Museo Civico in Turin. Accardi died in Rome on 23 February 2014.

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