Carol Rama

"I didn't think I had the qualities, qualità, for becoming an artist," Carol Rama told SAST REPORT in an interview, and continues with describing the view she had of the art scene: "beautiful women, primedonne, beautiful people who speak several different languages, sitting and being charming."

Olga Carol Rama (born 17 April 1918 in Turin, Italy) is a self-taught artist whose unconventional painting encompasses an erotic, and often sexually aggressive universe populated by characters who present themes of sexual identity with specific references to female sensuality. The Fondazione Sandretto carries over 150 pieces of Ramas's work.

As a young unmarried woman in a fascist Italy, at 21 years of age, Carol Rama was already creating images that were challenging state censorship.

Solo Exhibitions

1945
Galleria Faber, Turin

1946
Carol Rama, Galleria Il Bosco, Turin

1947
Carol Rama, Galleria Il Bosco, Turin

1955
Carol Rama, Libreria Il Salto, Milano, (presentation by Albino Galvano)

1957
Carol Rama, Galleria La Bussola, Turin, (presentation by Albino Galvano)

1959
Carol Rama, Galleria La Bussola, Turin, (presentation by Luigi Carluccio)

1960
Carol Rama, Galleria La Bussola, Turin, (presentation by Albino Galvano)

1964
Carol Rama, Galleria Stampatori, Turin, (presentation by Albino Galvano and Edoardo Sanguineti)
Carol Rama, Galleria La Carabaga, Sampierdarena (presentation by Edoardo Sanguineti)

1965
Carol Rama, Museo Civico, Pistoia, (presentation by Edoardo Sanguineti)

1966
Carol Rama, Galleria Lutrin, Lione, (presentation by Edoardo Sanguineti)

1967
Galleria Numero, Rome, (presentation by Edoardo Sanguineti)
Carol Rama, Galleria Fiamma Vigo, Rome, (presentation by Edoardo Sanguineti)

1970
Carol Rama, Sala Bolaffi, Turin

1971
Carol Rama, Galleria La Bussola, Turin, (presentation by Edoardo Sanguineti)

1972
Carol Rama, Galleria Anthea, Rome, (presentation by Edoardo Sanguineti)

1974
Galleria Il Fauno, Turin (presentation by Man Ray)

1975
Carolrama, Galleria LP220, Turin, (presentation by Maurizio Fagiolo dell'Arco)
Carol Rama, Galleria Marin, Turin, (presentation by Maurizio Fagiolo dell'Arco)

1976
Carolrama "Place and sign", Galleria Luciano Anselmino, Milan, (presentation by Edoardo Sanguineti)
Carol Rama, Galleria Il Capricorno, Venice, (presentation by Edoardo Sanguineti)

1978
Carolrama, Galleria Weber, Turin, (presentation by Giancarlo Salzano)

1979
Carol Rama, Galleria Martano, Turin, (presentation by Paolo Fossati, Albino Galvano, Marco Vallora)

1980
Carol Rama: watercolors 1939­1941­work 1966­1980, Galleria Giancarlo Salzano, Turin, (presentation by Corrado Levi and Edoardo Sanguineti)

1981
Carol Rama, works 1950/1955 , Galleria D'Arte Maggiorotto, Cavallermaggiore, (presentation by Albino Galvano and Paolo Fossati)

1983/84
Carol Rama, works 1983 , Galleria Giancarlo Salzano, Turin, (texts by Corrado Levi, Lea Vergine and Edoardo Sanguineti)

1985
Carol Rama, Sagrato del Duomo, Milan, (curated by Lea Vergine)
Carol Rama, Seven Works, Galleria Giancarlo Salzano, Turin

1987
Carol Rama, Works from 1937 to 1987, Galleria Dell'Oca, Rome, (presentation by Giuliano Briganti and Corrado Levi)

1988
Carol Rama, Casa del Mantegna, Mantova, (presentation by Giorgio Manganelli, Francesco Bartoli, Giuliano Briganti and Anne-Marie Sauzeau Boetti)

1989
Carol Rama, Circolo degli Artisti, Turin, (presentation by Paolo Fossati)

1990
Carol Rama, Galleria UXA, Novara
Carol Rama, works 1989/90, Galleria Giancarlo Salzano, Turin

1991
Carol Rama, Galleria Giancarlo Salzano, Turin
Paintings and drawings 1940/48, Galleria Giancarlo Salzano, Turin

1993
Carol Rama, Quasi note azzurre (Almost blue notes), Galleria Giancarlo Salzano, Turin
XLV Biennale Internazionale d'Arte, Venice (presentation by Achille Bonito Oliva and Corrado Levi)

1993/94
La corona di Keaton, 1993 ­ Idilli, 1993 ­ Inediti, 1952/57, Galleria Giancarlo Salzano, Turin

1994
Galleria Monica De Cardenas, Milano

1994/95
Carol Rama, Past to Present 1994­1930, Galleria Sprovieri, Rome, (presentation by Achille Bonito Oliva and Maurizio Fagiolo dell'Arco)

1995
Le stanze di Carolina 1939 ­ 1994, Galleria Otto, Bologna (presentation by Paolo Fossati and Dario Trento)

1996
Galleria Il Ponte, Turin
Stamperia del Borgo Po, Turin (text by Edoardo Sanguineti)

1997
Carol Rama, works on paper, 1930s to present, Esso Gallery, New York, curated by Filippo Fossati (with presentation by Filippo Fossati, Corrado Levi, Paolo Fossati, Edoardo Sanguineti and Ingrid Schaffner)

Galleria Giancarlo Salzano, Turin

1998
Carol Rama, Retrospective, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam traveling to ICA Boston
Carol Rama, Retrospective, ICA, Boston
Carol Rama, Incisioni Recenti, Franco Masoero Edizioni d'Arte, Turin

1999
Carol Rama, GAM, Museo d'Arte Moderna, Turin

2002
Carol Rama, Galérie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France

2003
Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Carol Rama, past and present. Esso Gallery, New York, NY

External links

• CAROL RAMA, "Sast Report: Culture"
• Exhibition at maccarone, new york October 25, 2008
• Info on a past exhibition of Rama's work, with images of a few of her paintings
• "Crazy Life", The Walrus, March 2005.
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