Carol Rama
Catalogue Raisonné
Skira
2 voll., 768 p., ill.
ISBN: 978-8857-245-80-5
Edited by Maria Cristina Mundici with Raffaella Roddolo and Maria Grazia Messina, the Catalogue raisonné of the work of Carol Rama analyses for the first time in depth the artist's seventy years of work, from 1936 to 2005. A central and singular figure in the history of Italian art, Carol Rama (Turin, 1918-2015) spans the twentieth century under the banner of experimentalism in subjects and materials; from the 2000s she began to be appreciated beyond national borders and her fame grew after 2015 also thanks to important retrospectives in Europe and the United States.
In 2014, the Carol Rama Archive began work on the Catalogue Raisonné of the artist's works to restore the complexity and uniqueness of this figure, who has become an icon of creativity even among recent generations. With an operation previously unpublished, the Catalogue reports an accurate scientific research on the work, on the painter and on her operative contexts. The catalog is available in both Italian and English versions.
The Catalogue would not have been possible without the fundamental support of the Fondazione Sardi per l'Arte. The first volume is entirely dedicated to the historical-critical texts of important scholars of the artist (Fabio Belloni, Maria Cristina Mundici, Raffaella Roddolo, Federica Rovati, Elena Volpato) who analyse his activity with a new perspective, completed by a repertoire of 200 full-page colour images; the second is made up of the set of illustrated technical-scientific notes on the works, written by Raffaella Roddolo, and the Apparatus (appendices, biography, exhibitions, bibliography).
Contents
Author
Tome
Maria Grazia Messina, Maria Cristina Mundici, Raffaella Roddolo
Tome I
Maria Cristina Mundici
Tome I
Federica Rovati
Tome I
Raffaella Roddolo
Tome I
Elena Volpato
Tome I
Fabio Belloni
Tome I
Tome I
Tome II
Title
Foreword
The Work, the Works
Carol Rama, Painting as Healing
Carol Rama’s Recherche
With Savage Grace
Three Seasons of Carol Rama, 1964–1985
Plates
Notes to the Reader
L’opera, le opere
Maria Cristina Mundici
Tomo I
Catalogue of Works 1936–2005
Raffaella Roddolo
Tome II
Watercolours 1936–1946
Tome II
Works 1937–2005
Tome II
Notebook 1972–1998
Tome II
Studies from Memory 1970–2005
Tome II
Appendix
Tome II
Works on Paper: The Series
Maria Grazia Messina
Tome II
End Matter
Tome II
Biography
Tome II
Solo Exhibitions (1947–2022)
Tome II
Group Exhibitions (1946–2022)
Tome II
Literature, periodicals/magazines (1946–2022)
Tome II
Literature, volumes (1955–2022)
Tome II