Carol Rama: Capitolo 1 – Dorina e gli altri

The Castello di Rivoli is dedicating a multi-year project to Carol Rama: a monographic gallery that will evolve over time. Carol Rama has distinguished herself through her relentless exploration, within which multiple creative phases have intertwined. As the original creator of a vast iconography, the artist has produced both figurative and abstract works with equal ease, using materials and media that range from the most traditional to the entirely novel. This consistent inconsistency, as well as the close relationship between her life experiences and her art – alongside the range of themes she has explored, including psychological distress, eros and illness – establish Rama as one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century. Her influence extends powerfully into the present day, reaching even the youngest generations of artists. The first chapter, ‘Dorina and the Others’, presents a selection of significant figurative watercolours on paper from the artist’s early years, alongside works using erasers, which form part of the abstract and multi-material experiments she undertook from the 1970s onwards.