Carol Rama
A Rebel of Modernity
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
October 11, 2024 - February 2, 2025
Senza titolo (Autoritratto) (Self-portrait), 1937
Oil on canvas on wood, 35 × 29 cm
Ursula Hauser Collection, Switzerland
© Archivio Carol Rama, Torino
Photo: Archiv Ursula Hauser Collection
La linea di sete (The Line of Thirst), 1954
Oil on canvas, 60 × 50 cm
Turin, GAM - Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Museo Sperimentale.
By courtesy of the Fondazione Torino Musei
© Photo: Studio Fotografico Gonella.
Reproduced by permission of the Fondazione Torine Musei
Man Ray, 1984
Ink and felt-tip pen on paper, 22 x 17 cm
Collection Mario De Giuli
© Archivio Carol Rama, Torino
Photo: Massimo Forchino
Sexuality, passion, disease, death—Carol Rama (1918–2015) dedicated her art to the great human themes and elemental experiences. She is one of the outstanding artists of the modern age who achieved fame late in life.
During the 1930s, Carol Rama paved the way for the feminist art of today with her representations of female desire. She remained independent of schools and artistic groupings and created an unconventional and yet highly personal body of work over the course of about sixty years. Carol Rama’s creative activity defies simple categorization and is distinguished by an enthusiastic delight in experimentation.
© Photo: Pino Dell'Aquila
The SCHIRN is presenting the first comprehensive survey exhibition in Germany of the Turin-based Italian artist, showing works from all phases of her remarkable oeuvre. On view are hauntingly expressive portraits, object montages in surrealistic tradition, and abstract paintings and works made using industrial materials.
An exhibition of the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt in collaboration with the Kunstmuseum Bern
Curator: Martina Weinhart, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
SCHIRN KUNSTHALLE FRANKFURT
Römerberg, 60311 Frankfurt
