Born in Trapani in 1924, she is among the leading exponents of Italian Abstractism.
In 1949, she married the painter Antonio Sanfilippo, and together they met Consagra and Turcato with whom she established a friendship and a working relationship; her other acquaintances included Attardi, Dorazio, Guerrini, Maugeri and Perilli.
She participated with the group in numerous collective shows in Italy and abroad; her first personal show was held at the Numero Gallery in Florence and was followed, in the 50s, by that held at the Libreria Age d'Or Gallery in Rome.
Until 1952, Carla Accardi's work moved along the line of constructive-tangible painting, turning towards research founded on the poetics of the sign which led her, from 1954, to create works focused largely on combinations of white pictorial segments on black backgrounds.
As of the Sixties, Carla Accardi recovered a language centred on the sign-colour relationship, accentuating the chromatic value in luminescent two-tone schemes. In 1964 she had a personal room at the Venice Biennial.
In the Eighties, Accardi launched a new research, which she continues to pursue today: the use in her works of rough canvas allows glimpses of broad coloured signs, interwoven, in which different chromatic extensions are juxtaposed, creating energy fields of differing intensity.
Works of art in our Collection
- Archer on white
- Matter with grey
- Maze no. 12