“ORGnuno of us has a tropical disease within himself and I remedy with painting ». The words of Carol Rama They tell a lot about the artist born under the explosive sign of Aries in a wealthy family, In a Turin that fits the tight, severe city, “well equipped with asylums Where to make disturbing women disappear »writes Melania Mazzucco.
And the disturbing woman was certainly the painter. Too many madmen in the family, too small she at 12 years old to go and find her mother in the psychiatric clinic.
His first exhibition, Passionatein 1945 it was closed before the inauguration For obscenity and offense to the common sense of modesty.
Carol Rama was born on April 17, 1918 (AGF photo).
Nevertheless, Behind this incendiary woman is hiding a frightened girl With the moon in cancer and mercury in fish that make them say: “Always when I work I have references to something that moved me, anguished, to which I was linked in childhood as in the present”.
Figures and memories like his grandmother Carolina, who paints at 18 years among the orthopedic prostheses for war invalids. Or the room of a asylum where a mutilated and naked woman lies on the bed, provocative despite suffering.
The poster of the exhibition “Carol Rama. Brilliant unrulyness”, in Turin from April 15 to September 14th
Rosso is the color of the first sign of fire, and the painter’s favoriteeven rebellious on his day of birth, on 17, superstitious to the point of falsifying him.
At the root of talent and madness (Carol Rama. Brilliant unrelativeness He holds the exhibition at the Accorsi-ometto Foundation, in Turin from 15 April to 14 September), the opposition between Uranus, the planet who with the brushes exceeds every border, and Saturn who would like to dictate rules that the artist is well looked at from following.
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