Carla Accardi

On view until June 6, 2024, the Palazzo Esposizioni Roma, in Rome, is hosting a major anthological exhibition dedicated to Italian artist Carla Accardi (Trapani 1924 -Rome 2014) with over a hundred works. Whilst maintaining a singular and exceptional expressive coherence in her work, Accardi contributed to the emergence and development of new ways of understanding the artwork, from the Abstraction of the immediate postwar years to Informal, Conceptual painting, Environment Painting, to art influenced by feminism, the rediscovered joie de vivre embodied in the painting of the 1980s, right up to the grandiose synthesis of her work in the 1990s and 2000s. Unlike all other artists of her generation, she consistently upheld a dialogue with artists and intellectuals younger than herself throughout the various phases of her career.

The works were selected for the exhibition according to the criteria of highlighting both Accardi’s earliest inventions and to present pieces in which she expressed herself more radically, which rank as seminal in both the Italian and international contexts.

The exhibition, curated by Daniela Lancioni and Paola Bonani, includes works from some of the most important public and private collections, both in Italy and abroad, as well as a nucleus of historic works that remained in her ownership and which are currently part of the Archivio Accardi Sanfilippo collection.