17 Facts About Carol Rama

Carol Rama began to paint around the mid-thirties and exhibiting her work ten years later.

Carol Rama's work was relatively little known until curator Lea Vergine included several pieces in a 1980 exhibition, prompting Rama to revisit her earlier watercolour style.

Carol Rama remembered it as a carefree time during which the family sang operatic arias and played dress-up at home.

Carol Rama's father, Amabile Rama, was a small-scale manufacturer in the engineering industry who produced automobiles under the trademark "Sintesi" as well as unusual unisex bicycles under the trademark "OLT".

Carol Rama was still forming herself as a young woman during her mother's mental breakdown.

Carol Rama had enrolled at the art academy but school would not be her path forward; she skipped class and dropped out.

Carol Rama's work is in the collection of the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam,.

In 1980 Carol Rama's work was included in the exhibition of women artists, L'altra meta dell'avanguardia, held at the Palazzo Reale in Milan and curated by Lea Vergine.

In 2004 a retrospective of Carol Rama's work was held at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin, In 2009 the Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi in Berlin held a retrospective.

Carol Rama's women are often depicted armless, legless, or both, appearing broken like damaged classical ruins from Italy's ancient past.

The work of Carol Rama was the object of what we could call a psychopathological reduction.

In 1945, Carol Rama mounted her solo debut at Galleria Faber in Turin, exhibiting a range of early watercolours.

Chronically excessive and too much for the scene to handle, Carol Rama could continue to fall outside authorized spheres of visibility and slip through cracks between official categories.

Around the mid-fifties, Carol Rama began to undo little by little the geometric conventions of the concrete art.

Carol Rama invents organic abstraction, surrealism, concrete visceral art and porno brut.

Carol Rama was profoundly influenced throughout the sixties by the experimental linguistic and visual poetry movement of Novissimi.

Carol Rama made a series of collaged paintings called La Mucca Pazza [The Mad Cow], dominated by bloated udder shapes cut out of leather and rubber and arranged on used mail sacks.