CAROL RAMA

On display
from April 15 to September 14, 2025

CAROL RAMA
Unconventional Genius

Curated by Francesco Poli and Luca Motto

Ten years after her death, the Fondazione Accorsi-Ometto pays tribute to Carol Rama (Turin, 1918–2015), the great Turin-born artist of international renown, who was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 2003 Venice Biennale.
The exhibition, curated by Francesco Poli and Luca Motto, features a carefully selected group of around one hundred works from important public and private collections, tracing the key phases of Rama’s artistic journey from the 1930s to the early 2000s.
The show unfolds through several sections. It begins with watercolors from the late 1930s, marked by a unique expressive freedom and an explicit erotic charge. These are followed by her expressionist works from the 1940s and the abstract pieces of the early 1950s, which later evolve into Informal art. Next comes the well-known Bricolage series—featuring collages with doll’s eyes, syringes, stones, and rubber stoppers—and works from the late 1960s that reflect on the human condition at the height of the Cold War.
The exhibition continues with the Rubbers of the 1970s, in which Rama introduces completely renewed paintings: monochromatic black or white surfaces adorned with fragments of inner tubes. This is followed by her return to a reinvented figuration, typical of the 1980s and ’90s, populated by human figures, angels, animals, geometries, and fantastical perspectives.

The exhibition concludes with her most recent production, especially the series inspired by the “mad cow disease” crisis, which gave rise to a powerful and emotionally charged body of work.

Bepi Ghiotti INSIDE CAROL RAMA
An Exhibition Within the Exhibition
The 12 photographs by artist Bepi Ghiotti, created as part of the photographic project INSIDE CAROL RAMA (2012–2014), offer an intimate glimpse into the fascinating world of furnishings, objects, and images from the legendary house-studio on Via Napione in Turin, where Carol Rama lived for over seventy years.
Visitors are thus transported into the magical atmosphere of the artist’s home—a place of artistic creation, but also a vibrant space for encounters and exchanges with artists, intellectuals, critics, gallerists, and musicians, including Felice Casorati, Albino Galvano, Italo Cremona, Edoardo Sanguineti, Italo Calvino, Cesare Pavese, Massimo Mila, and Luciano Berio.