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Carla Accardi

Carla Accardi (1924 - 2014) was active/lived in Italy.  Carla Accardi is known for Abstract painting on plastic.

Carla Accardi
b. 1924, Trapani, Italy

Born on October 9, 1924, in Trapani, Italy, Carla Accardi trained as a painter at the Accademia di belle arti, Florence, before moving to Rome in 1946. Accardi quickly became part of the inner circle of the Art Club and was a frequent visitor to Pietro Consagra's studio. There she met the artists with whom she would establish the influential postwar group Forma 1 (Form 1, 1947-51): Consagra, Piero Dorazio, Mino Guerrini, Achille Perilli, Antonio Sanfilippo (whom she would marry), and Giulio Turcato.

The group's manifesto, which Accardi signed in 1947, called for reconciling Marxist politics with abstract art. The group's first exhibition occurred in Rome in 1947, and Accardi's first solo show soon followed, in 1950 at the Galleria Age d'or, Rome. Her early paintings consisted of interlocking geometric forms.

In the 1950s, Accardi was involved in the wide-reaching attempts to revolutionize abstraction through the hybridizati   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5521 characters.]  Artist bio

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