Olga Carolina Rama was born in Turin on April 17, 1918. The artist, refusing the number 17, converts it in her biographies into 16 or 18.
Eccentric and unconventional, Carol Rama was admired by the critics and the greatest intellectuals of the 20th century. A close friend of Italo Calvino and Edoardo Sanguineti, as well as Carlo Mollino, Massimo Mila, Felice Casorati, Man Ray and Andy Warhol, she received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in Venice in 2003.
The artist began to exhibit in the immediate post-war period in Turin, but her first exhibition, in 1945 at the Faber Gallery, was shut down because it was considered indecent. Carol Rama stood out for her pictorial nonconformism during the second half of the 1940s, tackling taboo topics of an erotic and violent nature. Carol Rama’s career was also characterised by continuous evolution, tireless experimentation and a life marked by her father’s suicide and her mother’s neurosis.
Available works
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Senza Titolo, 1950
Charcoal and tempera on paper,
26,4 x 20,5 cm
© Archivio Carol Rama, Torino -
Senza Titolo, 1940
Charcoal and tempera grassa on cardboard,
39,5 x 30,1 cm
© Archivio Carol Rama, Torino -
Senza Titolo, 1957
Oil on canvas,
59,4 x 78,7 cm
© Archivio Carol Rama, Torino -
Senza Titolo, 1965
Inner tube, rice paper, wire, glitter and glue on plywood,
30 x 25 cm,
© Archivio Carol Rama, Torino -
Senza Titolo, 1992
Felt-tip pen and tempera on wallpaper,
33,8 x 22,6 cm
© Archivio Carol Rama, Torino -
Senza Titolo, 1965
Enamel, spray paint, oil, pencil and wire on paper,
46,2 x 34,5 cm
© Archivio Carol Rama, Torino -
La guerra è astratta, 1970
Camera d’aria su tela Inner tube on canvas,
120 x 90 cm
© Archivio Carol Rama, Torino -
Arsenale, 1971
Inner tube on canvas,
80 x 120 cm
© Archivio Carol Rama, Torino -
Figure – Dittico, 1955
Mixed media on paper applied on board (two panels),
195 x 242 cm
© Archivio Carol Rama, Torino -
Senza Titolo - La corona di Keaton, 1993
Inner tube, colored pencil with parts printed on cardboard,
41,6 x 50 cm © Archivio Carol Rama, Torino
Ph. Pino Dell'Aquila
Available works
-
Senza Titolo, 1950
Charcoal and tempera on paper,
26,4 x 20,5 cm
© Archivio Carol Rama, Torino -
Senza Titolo, 1940
Charcoal and tempera grassa on cardboard,
39,5 x 30,1 cm
© Archivio Carol Rama, Torino -
Senza Titolo, 1957
Oil on canvas,
59,4 x 78,7 cm
© Archivio Carol Rama, Torino -
Senza Titolo, 1965
Inner tube, rice paper, wire, glitter and glue on plywood,
30 x 25 cm,
© Archivio Carol Rama, Torino -
Senza Titolo, 1992
Felt-tip pen and tempera on wallpaper,
33,8 x 22,6 cm
© Archivio Carol Rama, Torino -
Senza Titolo, 1965
Enamel, spray paint, oil, pencil and wire on paper,
46,2 x 34,5 cm
© Archivio Carol Rama, Torino -
La guerra è astratta, 1970
Camera d’aria su tela Inner tube on canvas,
120 x 90 cm
© Archivio Carol Rama, Torino -
Arsenale, 1971
Inner tube on canvas,
80 x 120 cm
© Archivio Carol Rama, Torino -
Figure – Dittico, 1955
Mixed media on paper applied on board (two panels),
195 x 242 cm
© Archivio Carol Rama, Torino -
Senza Titolo - La corona di Keaton, 1993
Inner tube, colored pencil with parts printed on cardboard,
41,6 x 50 cm © Archivio Carol Rama, Torino
Ph. Pino Dell'Aquila
