01 June 2015
Carla Accardi was an Italian painter who contributed significantly to the acceptance of abstract art in Italy. Accardi was born in Trapani, Sicily in 1924 and studied at the Academia di Belle Arti in Florence before relocating to Rome in 1946, where she would live until her death.
Her early paintings focus on the use of color and geometric shapes, depicting circles and signs. Accardi started making her first paintings in black and white. During the 1960's she began painting abstract calligraphic shapes using blue or green hues on a red background.
At this time she also began using a clear plastic material called Sicofoil. She used this material to make Tendas, or tents of clear plastic, which she adorned with painted forms. During the late 1970's she withdrew from art making to become part of the militant feminist movement with critic Carla Lonzi. She is considered a key member of the Italian Avantgarde and her artwork influenced the Arte Povera movement in the late 1960s.
In 1947, she co-founded the Forma 1 Marxist-inspired art movement with Ugo Attardi, Pietro Consagra, Piero Dorazio, Mino Guerrini, Achille Perilli, Antonio Sanfilippo and Giulio Turcato. She first exhibited in the United States in 2001 at MoMA PS1.
She died on 23 February 2014 in Rome.
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Her early paintings focus on the use of color and geometric shapes, depicting circles and signs. Accardi started making her first paintings in black and white. During the 1960's she began painting abstract calligraphic shapes using blue or green hues on a red background.
At this time she also began using a clear plastic material called Sicofoil. She used this material to make Tendas, or tents of clear plastic, which she adorned with painted forms. During the late 1970's she withdrew from art making to become part of the militant feminist movement with critic Carla Lonzi. She is considered a key member of the Italian Avantgarde and her artwork influenced the Arte Povera movement in the late 1960s.
In 1947, she co-founded the Forma 1 Marxist-inspired art movement with Ugo Attardi, Pietro Consagra, Piero Dorazio, Mino Guerrini, Achille Perilli, Antonio Sanfilippo and Giulio Turcato. She first exhibited in the United States in 2001 at MoMA PS1.
She died on 23 February 2014 in Rome.
www.antoninolavela.it
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