Carla Accardi

Carla Accardi (Oct 9, 1924 - Feb 23, 2014) was an Italian painter who contributed significantly to the acceptance of abstract art in Italy.

He was the cousin of the writer Evi Zamperini Pucci and Elda Pucci. After graduating from Liceo Ximenes in Trapani, he moved to Palermo for studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, completed in 1947 From 1946 he was in Rome where he attended the Osteria Fratelli Menghi, a famous meeting point for painters, directors, screenwriters, writers and poets between the 1940s and 1970s. In 1947 with Attardi, Consagra, Dorazio, Guerrini, Maugeri, Perilli , Sanfilippo, married in 1949, and Turkish, founded the Forma 1 Group of formalist and Marxist inspiration

Until 1949 he exhibited at the exhibitions of the group, in 1950 he held his first solo exhibition at the Age d'Or Library in Rome. The following year he attended the Libretto Salto in Milan, a meeting place for the artists of the MAC In Paris he met Magnelli In 1954 he started To tackle color-reduction and signage issues documented by the staff of 1955 at the San Marco Gallery in Rome In the same year he attended, invited by Michel Tapié, at the International Contemporary Individuality (Galleria Spazio, Rome; Galerie Rive Droite, Paris)

The search for Carla Accardi proceeds in the direction of mark automation until the early sixties In 1965 the artist abandoned the tempers in favor of colored and fluorescent paints to be applied on transparent plastic supports, coming out of the size of the painting and involving the space , With an attitude that will be important to poor art artists In the seventies he returned to geometric patterns repeated on large canvases called Lenzuoli that will be presented at the Galleria Editalia in Rome in 1974 The experiences of the Seventies will continue to be deepened in a series of Installations until the recovery of a more traditional dimension in the 1980s

Among the pioneers of feminism in Italy, he joined Carla Lonzi of the "Rivolta Femminile" group. In 1996 he was appointed a member of the Accademia di Brera and in 1997 he was a member of the Venice Commission Biennial as a counselor. In 1998, his city , Trapani, dedicated a retrospective to Carla Accardi: works from 1947 to 1997, in the Church of Badia Grande

On the morning of February 23, 2014, Carla Accardi accused a sudden plague and was transported urgently to the Santo Spirito hospital in Rome. Her conditions appeared immediately critical; The artist died shortly after reaching the emergency room

Carla Accardi's funerals were held on February 28, 2014 at the Carroccio Hall in the Campidoglio Alle esequie, in the first row, the Mayor of Trapani, Vito Damiano, who wanted to bring the greeting of the entire hometown