Carol Rama "Dorina", 1940 (detall). Foto: Nick Ash. Cortesia de l'artista, col·lecció privada, Colònia i Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlín.
Exhibition
31.10.2014 - 22.02.2015
The Passion According to Carol Rama
This exhibition aims not only to expose the work of Carol Rama, but also to challenge the dominant narratives of art history through a work that requires us to undo narratives and reformulate concepts. Almost forgotten by hegemonic historiography and the feminist movement, the work of Rama, stretching over seven decades (1936–2006), constitutes an anti-archive allowing a reconstruction of the avant-garde movements of the twentieth century.
From her first watercolours of the thirties, Rama invents her own visual grammar that contrasts with representations of sexuality in modernism: at the same time mutilated and threatening, violated and irreducibly desirable, the female body is presented as active and vital. The carnal palette of Fauvism serves her to support a subversive proposal: the intensity of the colours reserved for the vulva or tongue denote the resistance of the body to dominating forces and subjugating institutions. These works begin a task that will remain constant until 2006: to elaborate maps of dissident desire, diagrams of the unconscious and its strategies of resistance to normalisation.
Rama turned to abstraction in the fifties. She approached informalism and the spatialism of the sixties by creating bricolages and organic maps made of taxidermist’s eyes and nails, cannulae, mathematical signs, syringes and electrical connections. In the seventies, she created a matter-image with rubber tires, only to return, in later years, to the free use of form. Rama invents sensurrealism, an art of the visceral-specific, porn brut, organic abstraction. And, today, she appears as an essential artist for understanding the mutations of representation in the twentieth century and the later work of artists like Cindy Sherman, Kara Walker, Sue Williams, Kiki Smith and Elly Strik.
Curators: Teresa Grandas and Paul B. Preciado
Exhibition conceived by the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) and the Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris (MAMVP), organised by MACBA and co-produced with PARIS MUSÉES / MAMVP, EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (IMMA) and GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Torino.
Itinerances
12 OCT. 2016 – 05 FEB. 2017 GAM, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino
24 MAR. – 01 AUG. 2016 IMMA, Museum of Modern Art Ireland, Dublin
14 OCT. 2015 – 10 JAN. 2016 EMMA, Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo. Finland
02 APR. – 12 JULY 2015 MAMVP, Musée d’Art moderne de la ville de Paris
31 OCT. 2014 – 22 FEB. 2015 Museum galleries
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gallery of images
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La passió segons Carol Rama / La pasión según Carol Rama / The Passion according to Carol Rama
La passió segons Carol Rama / La pasión según Carol Rama / The Passion according to Carol Rama
This exhibition aims not only to expose the work of Carol Rama, but also to challenge the dominant narratives of art history through a work that requires us to undo narratives and reformulate concepts. Almost forgotten by hegemonic historiography and the feminist movement, the work of Rama, stretching over seven decades (1936–2006), constitutes an anti-archive allowing a reconstruction of the avant-garde movements of the twentieth century.
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La passió segons Carol Rama / La pasión según Carol Rama / The Passion according to Carol Rama
La passió segons Carol Rama / La pasión según Carol Rama / The Passion According To Carol Rama
archive documents
22 results
The Passion According to Carol Rama [Punt de llibre]
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2016
La passió segons Carol Rama [Enregistrament audiovisual roda de premsa]
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2015
La passió segons Carol Rama [Enregistrament audiovisual exposició]
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2015
Die leidenschaft gemäss Carol Rama [Full de mà]
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2014
La passione secondo Carol Rama [Full de mà]
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2014
La passió segons Carol Rama [Fitxa tècnica publicació]
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2015
The Passion According to Carol Rama [Full de mà]
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2014
La passió segons Carol Rama [Vinil vitrina]
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2015
La passió segons Carol Rama [Full de mà]
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2014
La passió segons Carol Rama [Cartell]
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2015
La passió segons Carol Rama [Documentació exposició en itinerància]
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2015
La passió segons Carol Rama [Punt de llibre]
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2018
La passió segons Carol Rama [Màstil]
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2015
La passion selon Carol Rama [Full de mà]
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2014
La passió segons Carol Rama [Dossier de premsa]
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2015
La pasión según Carol Rama [Full de mà]
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2014