artist
Carla Accardi, one of the key figures of the abstract art movement in Italy during the second half of the twentieth century, was described by the esteemed New York Times art critic Roberta Smith as an "art star on the order of Agnes Martin in Italy." In the 1980's Accardi shifted her focus away from innovative clear plastics and back to canvas, employing signs (fictional abstracted calligraphic marks repeated to convey multiple dualities) and chromatic juxtapositions. In this decade her palette range expanded and intensified. The combination of these colorful surfaces and the endless array of abstract images result in dynamic pictorializations as evidenced in our example with its grill-like patterns and figure/ground reversals. Although Accardi's works have been celebrated primarily in Europe, recently American audiences have come to embrace her dynamic and changing works.
provenance
Private Collection, Europe
exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions:
2007 Galerie Greta Meert; Brussels2004 Macro Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma; Rome, ItalyGalerie
Meert Rihoux; Brussels, Belgium
2003 Carla Accardi- Opere recenti, Galleria Astuni; Pietrasanta, Italy
2002 Galerie Meert Rioux; Brussels
Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Ljubljana; Slovenia
Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Paris
Carla Accardi, Galleria Pecci; Milan, Italy
2001 Triplice Tenda, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center; New York
Carla Accardi. Premio Artista dell’anno, Palazzo Crepadona; Belluno
Carla Accardi. Premio Artista dell’anno, Galleria Civica; Cortina d’Ampezzo
Carla Accardi Disegni, Galleria Santo Ficara; Florence
2000 Carla Accardi: Sicofoil, Galleria Massimo Minini; Brescia
Carla Accardi: Opere recenti, Galerie Meert; Rihoux, Brussels
Carla Accardi: Pietrose distanze, Galleria Astuni; Fano, Pesaro, Urbino
1999 Carla Accardi: Triplice Tenda, Kunstmuseum; Bonn
Transparences, Studio Simonis; Paris
1998 Carla Accardi: Triplice Tenda, Castello di Rivoli; Turin
Ambiente Arancio, Musee d-Art moderne et contemporain; Strasbourg, France
Carla Accardi: Opere 1947-1997, Chiesa della Badia Grande e Laboratori Officina; Trapani
Carla Accardi, Overbeck Gesellschaft; Lubeck, Germany
1997 Galleria Cesare Manso; Pescara, Italy
Galleria Vannuci; Pistoia, Italy
Atelier del Bosco a Villa Medici, Academie de France; Rome
Dove nasce il segno (oeuvres 1953) Studio Simonis; Paris
Carla Accardi: Ambiente arancio 1967, Telecarte,
Galerie Meert; Rihoux, Brussels
1996 Stadtische Galerie; Wolfsburg
Galleria Fumagalli; Bergamo
1995 Kunstverein; Ludwishafen, Germany
Galleria delle Arti; Citta di Castello, Italy
Giochi galleggianti e trasparenze, Centro d’Arte Contemporanea Spazio Umano; Milan
1994 Una forma d’esistenza, Fumagalli Arte Contemporanea; Bergamo
Opere 1954-1993, Galerie Meert; Rihoux, Brussels
1950 Carla Accardi. 15 Tempere Galleria Age d’Or; Rome, Italy
literature
L. Passerini, Storie di donne e femministe, Rosenberg & Sellier, Turin 1991, cover ill.
Germano Celant, Carla Accardi, Charta, Milan 1999, p. 409 no. 1987 11 with ill.