Carol Rama
Olga Carol Rama (born April 17, 1918 in Turin , Italy ; † September 25, 2015 there ) was a self-taught painter who mainly dealt with erotic motifs.
Life
Rama was born in 1918 as the youngest daughter of a manufacturer. In 1933 she worked on her first pictures. 1940 marked the beginning of a lifelong relationship with the painter Felice Casorati . In 1945 the opening of an exhibition in the Faber Gallery in Turin was prevented by the police. Since 1946 she had a close friendship with the poet Edoardo Sanguineti .
In 1948 she took part in the Venice Biennale for the first time . In 1950 there was a collaboration with the group " Movimento Arte Concreta " and contacts with neo-surrealists such as Italo Cremona (1905–1979) were established. In 1970 she began to work with rubber and met well-known artists such as Man Ray and Andy Warhol .
In 1980 she took part in the exhibition “The Other Half of the Avant-garde” (1910–1940) at the Palazzo Reale in Milan . In 1998 a retrospective followed at the Stedelijk Museum , Amsterdam, and in 2003 she received a Golden Lion for her life's work at the Venice Biennale .
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Carol Rama was primarily known for the surreal, erotic watercolors of her early days. At the age of twenty she indignant to the public with her erotic watercolor series “Appassionata” (The Passionate). Since 1937, harassed bodies have developed their own world of expression, while material images have been created since the 1970s that are full of phallic fantasies. Her later works show a greater generosity in the lines and the composition.
She drew her art from emotional injuries that she suffered in her childhood. The mother was sent to a psychiatric institution, her father suicided after the bankruptcy of his tire factory.
The Fondazione Sandretto has more than 150 works by Carol Rama in its collection. In 2010, the Associazione Archivio Carol Rama was founded, which is dedicated to document collection and research on Carol Rama.
Exhibitions
- 2004 Appassionata , Ulm Museum / Gallery in the Taxispalais Innsbruck
- 2009 Autorattistartice , exhibition, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin
- 2012 Bad Tongues , Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
- 2014 Carol Rama and Danh Vo , Nottingham Contemporary , Nottingham, UK
- 2015 La passion selon Carol Rama , Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris , retrospective
Web links
- Literature by and about Carol Rama in the catalog of the German National Library
- Carol Rama on kunstaspekte.de
- Exhibition 2012 in Düsseldorf
- Exhibition 2009 in Berlin
- Report on Arte (May 4, 2004, Arte Kultur)
Individual evidence
- ^ Addio a Carol Rama, artista eccentrica ammirata da Sanguineti e Calvino
- ^ Website of the Archivio Carol Rama . Retrieved July 1, 2014 (Italian).
- ↑ Exhibition information Carol Rama, Nottingham Contemporary, 2014 (English).
- ^ Exhibition information La passion selon Carol Rama des MAMVP, Paris . Retrieved September 27, 2015 (English, French).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rama, Carol |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rama, Olga Carol (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 17, 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Turin |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 25, 2015 |
| Place of death | Turin |