No.110 

Carla Accardi *
(born 1924 in Trapani) Rosso-Viola, signed and dated Accardi 64, tempera on thick paper on canvas, 50 x 64 cm, framed, (PP)

With a photo certificate issued by the artist, Rome, 22 Feb. 2005, Archive-No. 126
After the war the artist settled in Rome, where she signed the Form 1 Manifesto together with Attardi, Consagra, Dorazio, Guerrini, Perilli, Snafilippo, and Turcato. ... However, she soon sought autonomy within this group of artists. In the 1950s she explored the countless possibilities of “sign painting”, experimenting with a kind of non-symbolic sign alphabet, as well as with colours, which played an important role in her painting as well. The combination of illegible signs, repeated over and over again, and bright, partly even fluorescent colours became such a fixture that one cannot identify a preference of either of the two poles. In 1964 she wrote: “Another feature of my painting is the expansion and contraction of signs, which are based on two fundamental concepts of order: on the one hand, on a geometric concept and on the other hand, on a purely arbitrary one.” The orders of coincidence, of signs, and of painting are themes with which Accardi still experiments. Italienische Kunst 1900-1980, exhibition catalogue, Milan 1985, p. 162

estimate €20.000,- to €25.000,-

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