Carla Accardi Italian, 1924-2014

Per L’Infinito lo Scirocco n. 2
Per L’Infinito lo Scirocco n. 2
Per L’Infinito lo Scirocco n. 2
Per L’Infinito lo Scirocco n. 2
Per L’Infinito lo Scirocco n. 2
Per L’Infinito lo Scirocco n. 2
Per L’Infinito lo Scirocco n. 2
Per L’Infinito lo Scirocco n. 2
Per L’Infinito lo Scirocco n. 2
Per L’Infinito lo Scirocco n. 2, 1987
Vinyl on canvas
57 x 57 inches,
Framed: 58 1/2 x 58 1/2 inches
Signed: Accardi ‘87 (l.l.) Accardi - 1987 - No 997 - “Per L Infinito lo Scirocco No 2” (verso, on canvas over stretcher)
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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

Galleria La Scaletta, San Polo di Reggio Emilia
Private Collection, Europe

exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions:

2007 Galerie Greta Meert; Brussels
2004 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.

Overview

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.  

 

Museums and Public Collections

Guggennheim Museum, New York City
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice  
Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Torino, Italy
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome 
Gallerie di Palazzo Leoni Montanari, Vicenza, Italy
Gallerie di Palazzo Leoni Montanari, Vicenza, Italy
GAM - Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin
Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Trento, Italy 
S.M.A.K. (Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst), Ghent, Belgium

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