“Carol
Rama: Antibodies” is the first New York museum survey of the work of Italian
artist Carol Rama (b. 1918, Turin, Italy–d. 2015, Turin, Italy) and the largest
presentation of her work in the US to date.
While Rama
has been largely overlooked in contemporary art discourses, her work has proven
prescient and influential for many artists working today, attaining cult status
and attracting renewed interest in recent years. Rama’s exhibition at the New
Museum will bring together over one hundred of her paintings, objects, and
works on paper, highlighting her consistent fascination with the representation
of the body. Seen together, these works present a rare opportunity to examine
the ways in which Rama’s fantastical anatomies opposed the political ideology
of her time and continue to speak to ideas of desire, sacrifice, repression,
and liberation. “Carol Rama: Antibodies” celebrates the independence and
eccentricity of this legendary artist whose work spanned half a century of
contemporary art history and anticipated debates on sexuality, gender, and
representation. Encompassing her entire career, the exhibition traces the
development from her early erotic, harrowing depictions of “bodies without
organs” through later works that invoke innards, fluids, and limbs—a miniature
theater of cruelty in which metaphors of contagion and madness counteract every
accepted norm. The exhibition is curated by Helga Christoffersen, Assistant
Curator, and Massimiliano Gioni, Edlis Neeson Artistic Director, and is
accompanied by a fully illustrated publication.
Venue name:
New Museum of Contemporary Art
Address:
235 Bowery New York 10002 Cross street: at Prince St
Opening
hours: Wed, Fri–Sun 11am–6pm; Thu 11am–9pm Transport: Subway: J, Z to Bowery; 6
to Spring St
Event
website: http://www.newmuseum.org/
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