CAROL RAMA

Italian artist Carol Rama (b. 1918) developed her work consisting mainly of paintings, drawings and collages in Turin since the 1930 s. Her early works are marked by a radical breaking of taboos. Her permissive, equally rebellious and fragile watercolors with their focus on the body and sexuality, an- ticipate themes that would become important for action and body art of the 1960s and 1970s. In the process, Carol Rama maintained the delicate balance beween vulgarity and elegance, merciless directness and eccentric poetry. H er sensi...[Read more]