Edited with text by Brigitte Hausmann. Text by Brigitte Reinhardt, Alexandra Wetzel.
Hedonistic, erotic and unsettling: on Carol Rama’s late drawings and watercolors
Self-taught Italian painter Carol Rama (1918–2015) worked in relative obscurity for decades, until curator Lea Vergine included her in a 1980 exhibition that instigated her discovery by the art world. In 2003 she was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale for her life's work; retrospectives at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and the New Museum in New York soon followed. This hardcover volume focuses on the drawings and watercolors that Rama produced from the mid-1990s until her death. These include the Cadeau series, which depict scribbled orifices multiplied down the page, or red swollen hooves; Tongues, from the late 1990s, which depict bright-red horned tongues wagging their way across the page; and works from the early 2000s that feature thornlike breasts rendered in marker, nail polish and other materials on found sheets of paper.
FORMAT: Hbk, 8 x 10 in. / 96 pgs / 45 color. LIST PRICE: U.S. $32.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $44 ISBN: 9783775751629 PUBLISHER: Hatje Cantz AVAILABLE: 2/1/2022 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Active AVAILABILITY: Not available TERRITORY: NA LA
Published by Hatje Cantz. Edited with text by Brigitte Hausmann. Text by Brigitte Reinhardt, Alexandra Wetzel.
Hedonistic, erotic and unsettling: on Carol Rama’s late drawings and watercolors
Self-taught Italian painter Carol Rama (1918–2015) worked in relative obscurity for decades, until curator Lea Vergine included her in a 1980 exhibition that instigated her discovery by the art world. In 2003 she was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale for her life's work; retrospectives at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and the New Museum in New York soon followed.
This hardcover volume focuses on the drawings and watercolors that Rama produced from the mid-1990s until her death. These include the Cadeau series, which depict scribbled orifices multiplied down the page, or red swollen hooves; Tongues, from the late 1990s, which depict bright-red horned tongues wagging their way across the page; and works from the early 2000s that feature thornlike breasts rendered in marker, nail polish and other materials on found sheets of paper.
