Carol Rama

The City of Paris’ Museum of Modern Art is holding the first retrospective in France dedicated to Italian artist Carol Rama. The exhibition will be an opportunity to discover this artist and reveal the multiple facets of her work. Her irreverent output has covered almost the wholeof the 20th century, flirting as much with surrealism as with concreteart, informal art, arte povera and outsider art, all the while remaining unclassifiable. The ferocity of her work is embodied as much in herwater colour paintings and collages as in her installations made of odd objects,nails, textiles, tyres or furs, forcing viewers to revisit th ehistory of classical art. Carol Rama is currently considered a key artistfor understanding changes in representation and the work of artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Cindy Sherman and Rosemarie Trockel. Herwork has recently attracted a lot of interest from institutions, arthistorians and artists. An autodidact and feminist born into a traditional, Catholic middle-class family in 1918 in Turin, where she still lives, Carol Rama declares: “I didn’t need a model for my painting, the sense of sin is my master.” Exhibition organised by the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelone (MACBA) co-produced with the City of Paris’ Museum of Modern Art (MAMVP), the Espoo Museum of ModernArt (EMMA) in Helsinki and the Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (GAM) in Turin, and the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) in Dublin.hashtag: #expoCarolRama