Carol Rama’s home is still there, untouched, a garret on the top floor of a building dating from the beginning of the 20th century, at no. 15 Via Francesco Napione in Turin, just a few steps from the River Po; the artist lived there for about seventy years, from the first half of the 1940s until her death in 2015.

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She has left a strong personal mark on the place. It was furnished over the course of time by the artist and conserves an exceptional stratification of different objects, works and documents, bearing witness to her daily routine and her art, to the individual and collective life of both Carol Rama and the artistic and intellectual circles in which she moved throughout her long life. Not a chance accumulation but a conscious filling up of space, a precisely controlled staging. A shell containing fragments of her life, a sort of archaeology of her own existence. As in a Wunderkammer, here can be found intact the atmosphere and reality of a place that for her was home, studio and space of the soul. A solitary dimension but also one of meeting and sharing with her friends and with the people who came to visit her, figures of which many testimonies have been preserved as scattered traces, each a bearer of stories and anecdotes.

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Listed for preservation by the Soprintendenza as an artist’s studio in 2016, its contents were acquired from Rama’s heirs by Signora Pinuccia Sardi in 2019. Its opening to the public and the management of the home and studio and of visits was the responsibility of the Archivio Carol Rama until March 2024, before passing into the hands of the Fondazione Sardi per l’Arte.

 

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