The Correr Museum pays tribute to Carla Accardi with a selection of works in dialogue with the museum's historical environments

From April 28 to October 29, 2023, the Correr Museum in Venice, in the Sala delle Quattro Porte, presents the exhibition Carla Accardi. The 1970s: the Sheets, curated by Chiara Squarcina and Pier Paolo Pancotto, in collaboration with Archivio Accardi Sanfilippo.

Carla Accardi (Trapani, 1924 - Rome, 2014) is one of the most significant figures in twentieth-century art. After World War II she contributed to the affirmation of non-figurative art in Italy by promoting, as the only woman in an all-male assembly, the abstract group Forma (1947); in the 1950s she developed the poetics of the sign, establishing herself among the protagonists of theMichel Tapié’sArt autre; in the following decade she introduced the use of an unprecedented transparent plastic material, sicofoil, and abandoned tempera in favor of colored and fluorescent paints, opening her research to optical and environmental effects. Having moved beyond the 1970s, marked by a marked commitment to social activities and feminism (with Carla Lonzi and Elvira Banotti in 1970 she was among the founders of Rivolta Femminile), she traversed the 1980s and 1990s and arrived in the new millennium with a renewed interest in painting, constantly developing her own language made of signs and chromatic juxtapositions.

The Museo Correr exhibition falls on the heels of the centenary of the birth of the artist who, although she lived in Rome, established a constant link with Venice throughout her existence. In 1948 he made his debut at the Biennale, returning in 1964, 1976, 1988 and 1993, also appearing in the 2022 edition. Works, photos and other documentary material document her relationship with the lagoon city including an image from 1952 when, during an exhibition at the Galleria del Cavallino, she visited with her husband, artist Antonio Sanfilippo, and Tancredi Parmeggianithe Guggenheim collection. The Venetian project, as a tribute and not an anthological exhibition, presents, in the form of an installation, a small selection of works placed in dialogue with the museum’s historical environments. These are a small number of works, rarely visible but, even in their particularity, significant in the artist’s research and, in their own way, summarizing his creative path.

The Correr Museum pays tribute to Carla Accardi with a selection of works in dialogue with the museum's historical environments

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