11.07.2024 | The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is presenting the first comprehensive survey exhibition in Germany of the Turin-based Italian artist from October 11, 2024 to February 2, 2025, showing works from all phases of her remarkable oeuvre.
CAROL RAMA
OCTOBER 11, 2024 – FEBRUARY 2, 2025
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 1940s, 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.
The Schirn presents the first comprehensive survey exhibition of Carol Rama in Germany, showing all phases of her remarkable oeuvre
Rama’s creative activity defies simple categorization and is distinguished by an enthusiastic delight in experimentation. The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 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.
Carol Rama, Appassionata, 1940, Watercolor and pencil on paper, 41.5 x 30.5 cm, GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, on loan from Fondazione Guido ed Ettore De Fornaris, © Archivio Carol Rama, Torino, Photo: Studio Fotografico Gonella. Reproduced by permission of the Fondazione Torine Musei
Carol Rama, Figura (sedia rossa) (Figure [Red Chair]), 1947, Oil on panel, 32.5 x 26.8 cm, Private collection,© Archivio Carol Rama, Torino, Photo: Roberto Goffi
Carol Rama, Senza titolo (Maternità) (Untitled [Motherhood]) , 1966, Enamel paint, glue and doll’s eyes on canvas, 90 x 70 cm, Private collection, Turin, © Archivio Carol Rama, Torino, Photo: Gabriele Gaidano
Carol Rama, Presso il pungente promontorio orientale (Near the Sharp Eastern Promontory), 1967, Ink, glue and doll's eyes on canvas, 36.5 x 24.5 cm, Private collection, © Archivio Carol Rama, Torino, Photo: Roberto Goffi
Carol Rama, Teatrino n. 3 (Miniature Theater No. 3), 1938, Watercolor and colored pencil on paper, 14.1 x 23.2 cm, Private collection, © Archivio Carol Rama, Torino, Photo: Roberto Goffi
Carol Rama, I due Pini (Appassionata) (La signora Macor), 1939, Watercolor, tempera, and colored pencil on paper, 33.7 x 23.6 cm, Private collection, © Archivio Carol Rama, Torino, Photo: Pino dell'Aquila
Carol Rama, Marta, 1940, Watercolor, tempera, and colored pencil on paper, 23 × 17.5 cm, Private collection, Turin, © Foto: Pino dell'Aquila
Carol Rama, 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
Carol Rama, Senza titolo (Untitled), 1970, Inner tubes on canvas, 110 x 120 cm, Courtesy The Estate of Carol Rama represented by Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin, © Archivio Carol Rama, Turin, Photo: Nick Ash
Carol Rama, Idilli (Idylls), 1977–1993, Mixed media, inner tubes, paper, and iron elements on black car-hood canvas, 3 parts, 130 x 70 cm each, Private collection, © Archivio Carol Rama, Torino, Photo: Henry Trumble
Carol Rama,La macelleria (The Butcher’s), 1980, Felt-tip pen and acrylic on beige car-hood canvas, 120.3 x 120.3 cm, Private collection, © Archivio Carol Rama, Torino, Photo: Pino Dell' Aquila
Carol Rama, Lo specchio di Huguette (Huguette's Mirror), 1983, Mixed media on paper with previous handwriting (architectural drawing), 49.5 × 32 cm, Private Ccollection, © Archivio Carol Rama, Torino, Photo: Pino dell'Aquila
Carol Rama, 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
Carol Rama, Il chiodo di Corrado (Corrado’s Leather Jacket), 1993, Bicycle inner tubes on leather jacket, ca. 82 x 58 x 8 cm, Private collection, © Archivio Carol Rama, Torino, Photo: Pino Dell' Aquila