SOMETHING BORROWED | ACCARDI

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The Foundation is proud to announce the loan of three works by the artist Carla Accardi (1924-2014) from the Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Turin to the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome, on the occasion of the exhibition dedicated to the centenary of her birth.

The works now on display – Arciere su bianco (1955), Labirinto n. 12 (1958) e Materico con grigi (1954) – are contributing to the artistic exchange between the two institutions.

The exhibition project, curated by Daniela Lancioni and Paola Bonani, brings together around 100 works in the most comprehensive anthology ever dedicated to the artist. The exhibition offers a chronological journey through her extraordinary career, highlighting the different stages of her creative path. A leading figure on the Italian and international art scene, Carla Accardi’s innovative and radical language has had a profound impact on contemporary art. The exhibition explores her pioneering contribution and her constant search for expressive freedom, allowing visitors to immerse themselves in the creative universe of one of the protagonists of 20th century visual culture.

The exhibition, promoted by the Department of Culture of Roma Capitale and the Azienda Speciale Palaexpo, in collaboration with the Accardi Sanfilippo Archive and the Silvano Toti Foundation, has been prolonged and will be open until 1 September 2024.

Artist Bio

Carla Accardi was raised in Sicily, embracing, as she recalls, the light, the Mediterranean colors, the frontier spirit, and the memory of ancient civilizations that characterize the region. In the immediate postwar period she moved to Rome, where she participated in the climate of renewal, passionately involved in the artistic debate then taking place. In 1947, she was the only woman artist among a group of young artists to sign the Forma manifesto. Openly anti-realist in their polemics, this group promoted abstract painting, ideally reconnecting to the European avant-garde tendencies of the first half of the century. Accardi immediately stood out in the way she broke away from the rigors of geometry. […]

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