Carol Rama

Dorina, 1944, watercolor on paper, 24 x 15 cm, private collection

the passion according to Carol Rama

text by ANNE DRESSEN

All artworks copyright Archivio Carol Rama, Turin — Special thanks to the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris

 

If we take Man Ray’s word for it — and he knew her well — Carol Rama, that major but long-ignored Italian artist, had at least seven different faces: a diversity of facets that her recent retrospective at Paris’s Musée d’Art Moderne sought to reveal.

Autorattristatrice #10 [Play on words between author-auto-portraitist-auto-depressing #10], 1970, rubber collage on canvas, 100 x 100 cm, courtesy of Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin, copyright photo Andy Keate

Born in 1918 in Turin, where at the age of 97 she still lives, Rama remains what is known as an “artist’s artist.” Lauded…