Unica. Sei storie di artiste italiane

Through September 1, 2024, Spazio Ilisso—Arte Archivi Museo in Nuoro, Italy, is exhibiting over seventy works of six extraordinary artists, Carla Badiali, Carol Rama, Giosetta Fioroni, Carla Accardi, Tomaso Binga (Bianca Pucciarelli Menna) and Maria Lai.

Unica. Sei storie di artiste italiane, curated by Maria Grazia Messina, Anna Maria Montaldo, and Giorgia Gastaldon, offers an in-depth look at the Italian cultural history of the twentieth century, focusing on the female condition and the artistic experience of women.

The title of the exhibition refers to the fact that these artists often found themselves operating in solitude within male contexts or within a system that did not fully recognize their value. The exhibition aims to highlight not only the work of the six artists, but also the challenges and battles faced in the context of twentieth-century Italian art.

The look at the female condition of the years from the 1930s to the 1980s, implies an investigation into the loneliness of women in the art world, the political commitment that accompanied their research, the difficulty in emerging or simply being visible in a male universe, and approaching their work with a more attentive and sensitive eye.

For each of the six artists, the curators selected a specific period of their production consistent with these issues in order to have a renewed look of their works, exploring, at the same time, a history told by female protagonists, as a path of female emancipation and liberation.