Carol Rama

A Rebel of Modernity

October 11, 2024 – February 2, 2025

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Here you can read the wall panels of the exhibition “Carol Rama: A Rebel of Modernity”.

From October 11, 2024, to February 2, 2025, the SCHIRN KUNSTHALLE FRANKFURT is presenting a large-scale survey of the Turin-based artist Carol Rama for the first time in Germany, featuring some 120 exhibits from all phases of her remarkable body of work.

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  • Carol Rama: A Rebel of Modernity, exhibition view
    © Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 2024, Photo: Norbert Miguletz
  • Carol Rama: A Rebel of Modernity, installation view: Carol Rama, Senza titolo, 1966
    © Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 2024, Photo: Norbert Miguletz
  • Carol Rama: A Rebel of Modernity, installation view: Carol Rama, Marta, 1940
    © Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 2024, Photo: Norbert Miguletz
  • Carol Rama: A Rebel of Modernity, exhibition view
    © Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 2024, Photo: Norbert Miguletz
  • Carol Rama: A Rebel of Modernity, installation view: Carol Rama, Presso il pungente promontorio orientale (Near the Sharp Eastern Promontory), 1967
    © Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 2024, Photo: Norbert Miguletz
  • Carol Rama: A Rebel of Modernity, installation view: Carol Rama, Senza titolo, 1969
    © Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 2024, Photo: Norbert Miguletz
  • Carol Rama: A Rebel of Modernity, exhibition view
    © Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 2024, Photo: Norbert Miguletz
  • arol Rama: A Rebel of Modernity, installation view: Carol Rama, Spazio anche più che tempo, 1970
    © Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 2024, Photo: Norbert Miguletz
  • Carol Rama: A Rebel of Modernity, installation view: Carol Rama, Senza titolo, 1978
    © Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 2024, Photo: Norbert Miguletz
  • Carol Rama: A Rebel of Modernity, exhibition view
    © Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 2024, Photo: Norbert Miguletz
  • Carol Rama: A Rebel of Modernity, installation view: Carol Rama, Idilli, 1977–1993
    © Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 2024, Photo: Norbert Miguletz
  • Carol Rama: A Rebel of Modernity, exhibition view
    © Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 2024, Photo: Norbert Miguletz
  • Carol Rama, 1930–1931 brevetto n. 7H1261R (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, 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
  • 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, Senza titolo (Autoritratto) (Self-portrait), 1937, Oil on canvas on wood, 35 × 29 cm
    Ursula Hauser Collection, Switzerland, © Archivio Carol Rama, Torino, Foto: Archiv Ursula Hauser Collection
  • 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, I tarocchi (Tarot Cards), 1948, Oil on canvas, 95 x 60 cm
    Courtesy Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin, © Archivio Carol Rama, Torino, photo: Nick Ash
  • 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 (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, 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, Autorattristatrice n. 10 (Word play with auto and rattristrare, to sadden), 1970, Inner tubes on canvas, 100 x 100 cm
    Ursula Hauser Collection, Switzerland, © Archivio Carol Rama, Torino, Photo: Roman März
  • 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
  • Die Chrysanthemen (Chrysanthemum) sind eine Pflanzengattung in der Familie der Korbblütler.
    © Henne / Ordnung, 2013
  • Carol Rama, Ostentazione, 2002, Mixed media and oil paint on canvas, 119 x 142 x 15 cm
    Ursula Hauser Collection, Switzerland, © Archivio Carol Rama, Torino, Photo: Jon Etter
  • Carol Rama in her studio apartment 1994
    © Photo: Pino Dell’Aquila
  • Bepi Ghiotti, Inside Carol Rama # 26, 2012-2014, Giclée archival inkjet print, 42.8 x 52.3 x 3.3 cm
    Courtesy the artist and Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin. © Bepi Ghiotti
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