Carol
Rama
Carol
Rama
Rama
Italian, 1918 — 2015
Carol Rama's organic, subversive work puts the body at the heart of its work. Fragmented, hybrid, violent or sensual, it wavers between abstraction and figuration. Her unique, autobiographical paintings reflect various 20th century avant-garde movements
Rama's earliest watercolours, which were censored, depict mutilated yet still erotic female bodies. In the 1950s she turned to abstraction and, 10 years later, to informal art, creating composite “DIY” works mixing paint and debris. In the 1970s, she made "material images" with rubber resembling skin and flesh. She returned to figurative art in the 1980s. Her polymorphic work continually renews the same theme: the body, its impulses, its violence and its sensuality.
Rama's work was shown for the first time by the Pinault Collection at the 2015 "Slip of the Tongue" exhibition at the Punta della Dogana.
Rama's earliest watercolours, which were censored, depict mutilated yet still erotic female bodies. In the 1950s she turned to abstraction and, 10 years later, to informal art, creating composite “DIY” works mixing paint and debris. In the 1970s, she made "material images" with rubber resembling skin and flesh. She returned to figurative art in the 1980s. Her polymorphic work continually renews the same theme: the body, its impulses, its violence and its sensuality.
Rama's work was shown for the first time by the Pinault Collection at the 2015 "Slip of the Tongue" exhibition at the Punta della Dogana.
