Carla Accardi ^©  

(1924 - 2014)

Provenance:
Artwork directly acquired from the artist by the present owner

Artwork recorded at Archivio Accardi Sanfilippo, Rome, with number 59 as stated by the inscription on reverse and by the photography of the work authenticated by the artist, with her signature, on November 18th 2012

Blindarte kindly thanks Archivio Accardi Sanfilippo, Rome, for the help in compiling this catalogue data

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It is the fifties when Carla Accardi (Trapani, 1924 - Rome, 2014) begins to paint on the floor using the casein tempera, opaque and opaque material with which it composes woven white signs (more rarely red or gray) that wrap on black backgrounds, and then leave space from the 70s to glowing colors and simplified signs and isolated, arranged within grids and geometric compartments.

Accardi together with Dorazio, Perilli, Sanfilippo and Turcato was one of the founders of Gruppo Forma 1 in 1947, contributing to the affirmation of abstractionism in Italy. The fifties are decisive for the development of the artist’s career in fact, after a period of crisis, begins to draw signs, on the ground, white on black: «From that moment I began to make drawings one on the other that produced strongly differentiated signs... from their study was born a population, a forest, a reinvented nature, almost giant buildings that I dreamed of the night. Every day I saw the works. But the sign is not just an outlet of the unconscious. It is artistic expression and language. A sign exists in relation to others since it forms a structure with them». (from the biography of the artist by La Galleria Nazionale, Rome).

The bright contrasts between complementary colors create in these paintings a bright dissonance, a «brilliance» called it Gillo Dorfles, whose effect also contributes to the choice of new fluorescent pigments. This is the case of the two casein tempera on paper presented here.