(Trapani 1924-2014 Rome)
Bluearanciorosso, 1991, signed, titled and dated on the stretcher Carla Accardi 1991, vinyl on canvas, 80 x 100 cm, framed
Photo-Certificate:
Archivio Accardi Sanfilippo, Rome, 6 October 2023,
archive no. 253A
Provenance:
Frankfurter Westend Galerie
Private Collection South Germany - acquired from the above
Each of Carla Accardi"s works is characterised by a minimalist colour palette, with large pseudo-calligraphic lines evoking the feeling of constant movement. While Accardi was renowned from the mid-1960s for her extraordinary sicofoil works - enamel on a transparent plastic material wrapped around stretcher bars - she returned to classical painting on canvas in the 1980s. The present work also fits squarely into her oeuvre. The chromatic juxtaposition and the seemingly random composition of the geometric-looking forms and symbols are an important part of her approach.